The persecuted community who are living in Turkey say Chinese authorities have recruited Uyghurs to watch over whether their behaviour is ‘suspicious’ or opposed to the ruling Communist Party. Gulgine and her family before they fled to Turkey. Her eldest son-Pakzat (stands between mother and father) before being sentenced for 13 years of prison by…
More details and tales of harsh treatment in Xinjiang’s internment camps leak out, as Beijing keeps silence. 11 June 2018 Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazarbaev made the usual congratulatory remarks to his Chinese counterpart at the conclusion of the weekend Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Qingdao. Nazarbaev praised their high level of bilateral cooperation and…
There are 10-11 million native Uyghur Turks living in China’s western-most Xinjiang province. But as many as 1 million of those are believed to be interred in “re-education camps”. That is an astonishing number. And when one stops to consider the sheer logistics involved in such an undertaking, that fact becomes even more incredible. Now…
Additional police have been drafted in to look for any evidence of extremists Chinese cities with large Muslim populations have tightened security ahead of the holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Friday, with additional police and anti-terrorism units drafted in to check for any evidence of infiltration by extremist groups. It is expected that at least 10 ethnic…
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.
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…
