Nurmuhammad Tohti, a well-known Uighur writer has died in a Chinese internment camp after he was forcibly picked up by state authorities last year.
According to a report by The Uighur Human Rights Project, a Washington-based reporting and advocacy organisation, hundreds of Uighur journalists, students and intellectuals are being taken by state-run internment camps.
China’s internment camps are being criticised by international rights organisations who accuse the government of violating basic human rights.