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Pompeo says documents confirm China committed human rights abuses

November 26, 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Recently leaked documents confirm that China committed human rights abuses of Uighurs and other minority groups, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday.

An international group of journalists have released classified Chinese government documents that describe the repressive inner workings of detention camps in Xinjiang, marking a second rare leak.

(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis; Writing by Susan Heavey; editing by Jonathan Oatis)

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