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<p>Reports about forced separation of children, including Dr Adrian Zenz's report
of 4 July 2019, add to the growing body of evidence about the disturbing situation
that Uyghurs and other minorities are facing in Xinjiang. We assess that there could
be more than a million Uyghurs and other minorities who have been or are currently
detained extra-judicially in detention camps in the province. As Mr Field explained
in a Westminster Hall debate on 29 January 2019, these detentions have split up families
and have had a significant impact on the children of those detained.</p><p>We also
frequently raise our concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang bilaterally
with the Chinese Government and in multilateral fora. Most recently on 3 July at the
41<sup>st</sup> session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, we noted our increasing
concern at the growing use of detention camps in Xinjiang and re-iterated our call
on China to allow UN observers unrestricted access.</p>
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