We should pay more attention to Beijing’s repressive actions. Donald Trump got one thing right in his campaign: Americans should worry about China. But trade is not the reason. Over the past year, the country has let a Nobel Peace Prize winner die in prison—something that last occurred in the Nazi era. A vast new…
Things are going from bad to potentially far worse in China’s western region of Xinjiang. BEIJING HAS BEGUN SETTING UP CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR OVER A MILLION MEMBERS OF ITS MINORITY UYGHUR POPULATION. CREDIT: GETTY / EMMANUEL DUNAND In China’s remote western province of Xinjiang, the Chinese government has begun constructing a series of internment…
Many of those detained are Muslim Uyghurs and Kazakhs accused of ‘incorrect thinking’ in the midst of a campaign that has treated what authorities consider ‘radical tendencies’ as a public-health crisis that must be expunged Authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang province have made loyalty to President Xi Jinping a central part of an extensive political…
The recently deceased mother of Dolkun Isa, the president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) exile group, died while in detention at a “political re-education camp” in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to security officials. Last month, Isa learned from a close family friend that his mother, Ayhan Memet, died on…
A Uyghur woman carries a toddler as children play near a cage protecting Chinese paramilitary policemen on duty in Urumqi, May 1, 2014. Dozens of Uyghur children from a mostly Uyghur-populated village in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) whose parents or guardians have been detained in “political re-education camps” have been sent to…
Had I missed a big piece of news? Riot police with machine guns, shields, steel baseball bats loomed in every direction. And the electric body scanners and bag searches on every street corner (literally) made me wonder if I should get the hell out when I reached Kashgar, my first stop in China. And every…
An SFMOMA exhibit on a persecuted minority challenges photojournalism’s emphasis on separation between artist and subject. Like other geographically remote areas — central Congo, eastern Yemen, and eastern Myanmar — China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regioncycles through the news because of one thing: bloodshed. China’s conflict stems from the government’s repression of the region’s majority-Muslim people known…
An ongoing terror crackdown in Xinjiang, launched in May 2014 in response to escalating violence and subsequently extended, has mostly targeted the region’s Uyghur ethnic minority. Rights advocates and overseas Uyghur exile groups have blamed the increasingly harsh and apparently indefinite campaign for exacerbating ethnic tensions and further destabilizing the region. The crackdown has included religious fasting bans, local and region-wide rules against “extremist behavior” including wearing veils or beards, a ban on “extreme”…
Police officers on duty in the vicinity of a center believed to be used for re-education in Korla city, Xinjiang, Nov. 2, 2017. More than ten percent of the inhabitants of a mostly Uyghur-populated township in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been jailed or are detained in “political re-education camps,” according to…
In this episode, CJ speaks with a Uyghur Muslim refugee, who asks only to be indentified as Mark. At this moment he’s in Australia desperately trying to be reunited with his wife and 9month old baby whom both remain in China. Worse – his wife is facing 5 years in prison for simply being a…
