A representative of Douglas Ross s Scottish Tories compared the plight of Uighur Muslims interned in centres like the one above to life in Scotland under the SNP. Photo: Getty THE Highland Tories have been forced to delete their Facebook account after making “absolutely disgusting” claims that living in Scotland and not supporting the SNP is like being an Uighur in China. The Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority group from Central Asia, with the majority living in the Xinjiang region in the west of the country. Under current Chinese premier Xi Jinping, Muslim minorities are being arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned. It’s estimated around one million Uighur Muslims have been detained in what China calls “vocational training centres”, according to Dr Anna Hayes from Australia’s James Cook University.