U.S. accuses China of turning Xinjiang region into "open-air prison"

The U.S. State Department on Wednesday accused the Chinese government of criminalizing religious expression and turning its entire Xinjiang region, home to the Muslim Uyghur minority, into an "open-air prison."The department on the same day released an annual report on international religious freedom which highlighted the U.S. government's concerns over Beijing's repression of Uyghurs and members of other Muslim groups in Xinjiang through mass arbitrary detention, forced labor, forced sterilization and other abuses."China broadly criminalizes religious expression and continues to commit cri…READ FULL ARTICLE