'Deeply disturbing': Australia condemns leaked documents detailing mass detention of Muslims

Australian politicians have expressed grave concerns over the details of a New York Times exposé on the Chinese crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.

Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. Source: AP

BY TOM STAYNER, PABLO VINALES, GARY COX

The startling details of a New York Times investigation exposing the Chinese government’s crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region have been sternly condemned in Australia.

Quoting from what The Times said is more than 400 pages of leaked internal Chinese Communist Party documents it revealed President Xi Jingping’s decree for “absolutely no mercy”.

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