LONDON, U.K.—Two weeks ago Professor Gay McDougall, co-chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, alleged that up to a million people belonging to the Uyghur and other Muslim minority groups in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang have been detained in concentration camps to be "re-educated" about religion. Hu Lianhe, who shapes the Communist Party Central Committee’s policies on minorities, sternly denied it: “The argument that one million Uyghurs are detained in re-education centres is
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