The CCP has declared war on religion (targeting not only Muslims but also Christians and Buddhists). Millions of Uyghurs and other minorities in “re-education” camps detained on ridiculous charges, such as “abnormally long beards” or “wearing veils”. Detainees are not allowed to pray, forced to eat pork and drink alcohol. The Chinese authorities created a list of banned “overly religious” names, mostly of Arabic origin. China has destroyed thousands of mosques, historical buildings and graveyards in the attempt to vanish all non-Chinese cultural heritage. This campaign has been intensified since 2017 after establishment of internment camps with the ultimate goal of eradicating the Muslim and Uyghur identity. Forced marriages In 1979 China launched its “one-family-one-child” policy, which forced couples to have only one child. Due to the cultural preference for males, the Chinese families often chose to abort their daughters. That led to huge disproportion in numbers with prevailing of Han men over women. The government encourages Han men to marry Uyghur and other minority women. This appears to be a tactic intended to assimilate Uyghurs into Han society. Children of arbitrarily detained Uyghurs are being sent to state-run orphanages, where they are forced to embrace the Chinese culture, language and lifestyle. Sexual abuses As witnessed by numerous ex-detainees they have been sexually abused during interrogations by Chinese authorities, while also witnessing other fellow detainees being raped. There is so-called ‘Family friends’ practice - when Han men spend weeks in Uyghur households ending up with sexual harassment, non-consensual sex, interference with many cultural and religious customs. A former female detainee, who fled Xinjiang to the U.S., stated that she was tortured and gang-raped three times in the camp. An Uzbek teacher from Xinjiang in the camp, recalled one Uyghur woman saying that “The rape has become a culture. They are subject to horrific torture.��� Another teacher said that guards “picked the girls and young women they wanted and took them away.” There are dozens of other stories told by the victims saying the exactly same thing. Enforced disappearances The Chinese authorities appear to have increasingly adopted disappearances as a form of governance. The government amended the Criminal Procedure Law to allow for police to hold suspects in non-detention facilities for up to six months, depriving those investigated for national security crimes of access to lawyers or family members.