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China: Minorities accounting for 1% of total population make up 34% of prison inmates (uhrp.org)
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A new UHRP analysis of official figures1 indicates that Uyghurs, Turkic and other non-Han peoples in the Uyghur Region account for more than a third (34 percent) of China’s estimated prison population, despite making up only one percent of China’s overall population. When accounting for the total regional population, the Uyghur Region has the highest prison rate in the world at an estimated 2,234 per 100,000.

The prison population refers specifically to formal imprisonment under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, and is separate from the unknown number of people still interned in the region’s camps and other forms of arbitrary detention.

Statistics released by the state prosecution in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)—known as East Turkistan to many Uyghurs—suggest that Uyghurs, Turkic and other non-Han peoples in the region are imprisoned at a rate of 3,814 people per 100,000.2

In comparison, Han people throughout China are estimated to be imprisoned at a rate of 80 per 100,000. In other words, Uyghurs and other non-Han people in the Uyghur Region are estimated to be imprisoned at just over 47 times the rate of Han people.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

That is absolutely fucked.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There goes China, ripping off American ideas again. Smh my head.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Why is anything vaguely anti-CCP immediately spun to include the US? I'm neither chinese or american before anyone jumps to that conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I was just making a joke about IP theft and imprisoning minorities but probably in part because they're more or less regarded as the two modern "superpowers".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Because a lot of people on the internet are from America and have the natural reflex to compare issues to their homes.

Americans also have a focus on their private prison system due to many issues ranging from modern-day slavery, racist takedown of minorities, and abuse of our mentally ill.

What percentage of the population in your country is currently imprisoned? Do you know the stats of minorities vs. imprisoned minorities for your country?

It seems to me like this information is more present in the minds of Americans, thus easier for them to comment comparisons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I have been observing this two for some time. I don't know what it is specifically here, but generally it might often be some whataboutism by some tankies I guess.