China Steps Up Uighur Crackdown During Ramadan

Uyghur News

The government in China is further tightening its grip on minority groups in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as it continues to use its deradicalization campaign to suppress local residents, Uighur leaders and human rights activists warn. China started a campaign in April 2017 to arrest local…

Tomato-Paste Colonialism

Human Rights in China

How a Mao-era Chinese agricultural conglomerate came to dominate the African tomato market. Ahundred workers were picking tomatoes in a field near Wusu, a town in northern Xinjiang Province, China, half way between the provincial capital, Ürümqi, and the border with Kazakhstan. Most were migrants from Sichuan Province, with a few Uyghurs. A teenage girl…