A diplomatic war of words has emerged between the American and Chinese embassies in Canberra, amid claims Beijing is harassing Uyghur minority people living in Australia. Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been subject to a wide-ranging security crackdown in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where it is believed more than a million people have been…
“No Rights. No Games.” is using the 2022 Olympics to place pressure on the Chinese government to end its persecution of Uyghur Muslims. The last time Irade Kashgary heard from her grandmother was in 2015. That was the year her grandmother told the family that she’d been placed under house arrest in Xinjiang, an autonomous…
China’s ambassador to Australia has labelled reports that one million Uighurs are being held in detention “fake news”, seeking to excuse mass incarceration as a deradicalisation measure. At a rare press conference at the Chinese embassy in Canberra, Cheng Jingye claimed the mass detention in Xinjiang province had “nothing to do with human rights, nothing to do with religion”…
(CNN) China’s ambassador to Australia has defended Beijing against accusations of human rights violations in a rare press conference Thursday, saying allegations that one million people had been detained in Xinjiang were “fake news.” In a carefully-worded series of answers, ambassador Cheng Jingye reiterated the Chinese government’s stance that the massive centers weren’t “detention camps” but…
From denying the existence of the concentration camps to transferring thousands of Uighur prisoners to prisons in other provinces in China, Chinese authorities have been lying to the international community. China has failed to hide the existence of the concentration camps despite its strong attempts thanks to Human Rights Watch reports, concerns expressed by the U.S.…
All students are responsible for: …supporting an environment free from harassment, intimidation, discrimination, assault, and Sexual Violence; …treating others in a way that does not harm them physically and/or threaten or intimidate them emotionally or mentally. -McMaster University Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities. Last week, Rukiye Turdush came to McMaster University to make a presentation on…
There is no escape from religious persecution. In the smallest villages, mosques are destroyed, people are forced to break Halal laws, and face re-education. Yuli county is located in central Xinjiang (East Turkistan), and is under the administration of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It has a population of approximately 120,000 people, of which 47.6% are Uyghurs. In September of…
The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control. Tahir Imin, a 38-year-old Uighur, had his blood drawn, his face scanned and his voice recorded by the authorities in China’s Xinjiang (East Turkistan) region.CreditCreditKate Warren for The New York Times BEIJING…
Families are being torn apart as China’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims continues Tens of thousands of Chinese Uighur families are being torn apart in a crackdown that’s seen as many as one million people detained, according to the U.N. (Reuters)By Rick NoackFebruary 10 ADELAIDE, Australia — Alfiraa Dilshat and Rashida Abdughufur were picnicking in the small seaside…
Practices violating the fundamental human rights of Uighur Turks and other Muslim communities in the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uighur Autonomous Region have worsened, especially during the last two years, and have been brought to the agenda of the international community. In particular, the official declaration of the “Sinification of All Religions and Beliefs” policy in…
