Washington (CNN)The children’s eyes light up when their mother pulls out a photo of her triplets taken shortly after their birth in 2015. “Moez!” three-year old Moez says, pointing at the infant version of himself. “Elina!” says his sister Elina. Promoted by Cabinet Office, Government of Japan The countries giving a voice to disability inclusion…
DetailsHouse arrest or forced labor awaits most of those released so far in what may be a public relations ploy. ALMATY, Kazakhstan—“I don’t know if they’re alive or dead.” This has become one of the most common phrases heard among the Uighur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz communities outside China, both in private conversations and online, in video…
DetailsChina is using its huge digital surveillance system, and the threat of sending family members to reeducation camps, to pressure minorities to spy on their fellow exiles. ISTANBUL — Spying on behalf of the Chinese state went against everything O. believed in. Yet even as he sat thousands of miles away in a quiet town…
DetailsMany nights in the past few months, Shawn Zhang has come home from work at a student legal-aid program and pulled up satellite imagery of a place 10,000 kilometres away. He is looking for re-education camps in Xinjiang, the Chinese region where, scholars estimate, hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim people have been forced to…
DetailsZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station. In Qingdao, a city famous for its German colonial heritage, cameras powered by artificial intelligence helped the police snatch two dozen criminal suspects in the midst of a big annual beer…
DetailsGuligeina Tashimaimaiti, a Uighur Ph.D. student, writer and scholar returned from a trip to Malaysia on December 26, 2017 and her family has not seen nor heard from her since. CCS has written the Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region requesting her release and her safety. July 7, 2018 Chen Quanguo Party Secretary…
DetailsGENEVA (Reuters) – China, Russia and Pakistan lost their bid on Friday to weaken a U.N. resolution upholding the crucial rule of activists in shedding an international spotlight on human rights violations, campaigners said. The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution calling on all states to protect civil society groups from threats and…
DetailsIntroduction The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long viewed the lands of Xinjiang as vital to its strategic interests. The region provides natural resources, and space for China to test nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles far from the prying eyes of the West. Xinjiang has historically been a buffer zone between Russia and the People’s…
DetailsEverything was going smoothly for Guligeina Tashimaimaiti, a young, dedicated and charismatic student. She had just finished her master’s thesis at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (University of Technology, Malaysia, or UTM), and her PhD application had just been accepted by the university. A brilliant student, she was to graduate with honours – only, she failed…
DetailsMugshots of Uighur dissidents from China who escaped from Thailand, as released by Thai police last year. A court will decide on their fate today. (Bernama pic) Klang MP says the Uighurs are at risk of persecution, life imprisonment, and torture if returned to China. PETALING JAYA: Klang MP Charles Santiago has urged the…
DetailsIn the aftermath of unrest in Urumchi on July 5, 2009, Chinese security forces conducted sweeps of Uyghur neighborhoods in the city arbitrarily detaining Uyghur males. A number of these individuals were forcibly disappeared and to date their whereabouts remain unknown. Nine years since the unrest, Chinese authorities are enforcing the mass incarceration of Uyghurs in…
DetailsAn ethnic Uyghur woman on crutches protests in front of a line of paramilitary police in Urumchi, in China’s Xinjiang region, July 7, 2009. Thursday marks the ninth anniversary of a crackdown amid ethnic tensions between Han Chinese and minority Muslim Uyghurs that left hundreds dead and thousands more injured in Urumchi, the capital of…
DetailsWe 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…
DetailsThings 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…
DetailsMany 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsHad 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…
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