BEIJING—China has retroactively modified the regulation to legitimize its detention of tons of of 1000’s of Muslim Uighurs in a marketing campaign that has sparked a global outcry over human rights abuses in opposition to the ethnic minority.
The amended counterterrorism rules, adopted Tuesday within the northwest Xinjiang area the place most Uighurs stay, say that authorities can use “vocational abilities coaching facilities” to “deradicalize” folks suspected of extremism. The earlier guidelines…
