'This is not a concentration camp': Analyst Victor Gao on China's Uighur prisons

China's recent celebrations for its 70th anniversary weren't quite the public relations triumph they were supposed to be. Not with continuing protests in Hong Kong and fresh revelations about human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.
In the largest internment of minorities since the second World War, China has locked up more than 1 million ethnic Uighurs in internment camps in the north-western region of Xinjiang. Recent weeks have thrown up even more evidence of these camps. Leaked Communist Party papers reveal amongst other things, instructions from the top on showing 'absolutely no mercy' in Xinjiang.
How does this week's guest, Chinese academic and lawyer Victor Gao, justify China's catalogue of human rights abuses and the continuing pressure on Hong Kong?

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