he following article was written and researched by Rachel Harris, teacher of ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London, and leader of the Leverhulme research project, Sounding Islam in China; and Aziz Isa Elkun, London-based Uyghur writer and blogger actively engaged in promoting Uyghur culture and history. The views expressed and research presented in this blog are those of the…
The Stream looks at the plight of China’s Uighurs and other stories from social media Uighur ‘re-education’ in China Thousands of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region have been reportedly detained in so-called re-education camps where they are forced to renounce their cultural and religious identities. The detentions are part of China’s efforts to influence the politics of a…
Family members of Abdulreshit Seley Hajim buried the 65-year-old Uyghur businessman under the close scrutiny of Chinese security officials this week, nine months after he was put in a political reeducation camp, his brother told RFA’s Uyghur Service. Seley was born in Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) city in Xinjiang’s Ili Kazakh (Yili Hasake) Autonomous Prefecture,…
As part of the crackdown, the Chinese government prohibits Uyghur Muslims from following religious practices and they aren’t allowed to observe a fast during the holy month of Ramadan. In fact, government employees are prohibited from fasting and even visiting mosques during Ramadan. By : Vanilla Sharma – International Business Times A Muslim man arrives at the…
At the 2018 Oslo Freedom Forum, BuzzFeed News’ China bureau chief and Asia correspondent Megha Rajagopalan explored how China’s government is systematically imposing a high-tech police state on the country’s citizens – and how new technology is making it easier for this alarming trend to affect people around the world.
As the world outside China remembers the Tiananmen Square massacre, the story of two Chinese dissident refugees in Taiwan highlights why this country should accept many more In the past week, there have been a couple of high profile examples of Taiwan providing sanctuary to Chinese dissidents. And this has raised the question of what…
Anthropologist Darren Byler chronicles artistic culture in Northwest China amid a massive security crackdown. By Jonathan Hiskes In the last three months, University of Washington anthropology student Darren Byler has spoken about his research to AI developers at Google, business leaders at the Washington State China Relations Council, and journalists at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Beijing.…
Deliberate, systematic human rights abuses are happening in China’s northwest. Reporting and research published in recent weeks shows that the Chinese government is targeting the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region’s roughly 11 million Muslims for “re-education.” Anywhere from several hundred thousand to more than a million people have been or are being held in “centers,” where they have to “disavow their Islamic…
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…
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…
