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…
DetailsAn 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”…
DetailsPolice 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…
DetailsIn 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…
DetailsA masked protester joins a march of ethnic Uighurs in Brussels in April asking the European Union to call upon China to respect human rights in the Chinese Xinjiang region. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador for religious freedom, is pressing the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Chinese leaders associated with the…
DetailsPHOTO: Mr Howard said responding to Chinese assertiveness was “absolutely critical”. (AAP:Joel Carrett) China could use its 1 million expats in Australia to help grow its influence and power in the region, former prime minister John Howard says. Speaking in London on a panel discussion about the Five Eyes intelligence network, Mr Howard said “Chinese assertiveness” was…
DetailsHost, Tariq El-Amin is joined in studio by Dr. Timothy Grose, an assistant Professor of China Studies from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana to discuss the Uyghur (pronounced We-gor) Muslims of China, an ethnic minority of Turkic descent who have been forcibly detained–in what amounts to internment camps designed to strip them…
DetailsAlready one of the most policed places on earth, Xinjiang saw security spending balloon last year China’s construction of a vast, all-seeing police state in its fractious far west has triggered a government spending spree worth billions to firms providing a hi-tech network of cameras and “re-education centres”. The surveillance machine in Xinjiang region has…
DetailsEvidence of a vast system of “re-education camps” in Xinjiang is growing even as the Chinese government continues to deny their existence. The camps are estimated to hold as much as 10 percent of the Uyghur population. They are closely related to what is probably the world’s most sophisticated citizen surveillance operation, documented last year in December by the…
DetailsMore than 70 religious leaders from Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region attended a four-month training in Beijing, vowing to introduce the experience of sinicizing Islam to the region troubled by religious extremists. The session included courses and site visits to cities like Quanzhou in East China’s Fujian Province and Qufu in East China’s Shandong Province, China…
DetailsVillagers can spot suspicious circumstances on TV set at home and report to authorities ○ China’s mass surveillance network, the largest in the world, expands into rural regions ○ The project, using artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition and big data, helps reduce crime rates in the countryside, which is short of security forces A worker is maintaining…
DetailsAn elderly Uyghur man prepares to get his beard massaged at a barber shop in the city of Aksu, July 17, 2014. AP Photo More than two dozen Uyghurs have died in “political re-education camps” in one county of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to officials from the area, who said most…
DetailsThe hands of a Muslim, who was released by Chinese authorities, are shown on June 26, 2018. Photo courtesy of China Aid Association Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang are detaining Muslim ethnic minorities en masse and subjecting them to torture and brainwashing to honor the ruling Chinese Communist Party and renounce the…
DetailsAuthorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are rapidly constructing crematoria staffed by dozens of security personnel, according to local officials, amid concerns over the eradication of ethnic Uyghur funeral traditions. Between March 2017 and February 2018, the XUAR government listed 5-10 million yuan (U.S. $760,000 to $1.52 million) tenders for contractors to…
DetailsTibet isn’t the only Chinese province terrified of having its culture rubbed out by Beijing. Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority in western China, are reportedly being sent to “re-education camps” and serving lengthy jail sentences on trumped-up charges of religious extremism. The pain can be deeper for overseas workers who hear stories about their relatives…
DetailsFootball player Erfan Hezim took a selfie with Lionel Messi weeks before he was detained in a re-education center. Image via FifPro. With World Cup 2018 underway, all eyes are focused on the game. But many people are unaware of what — or who — is missing on the field. The Fédération Internationale des Associations…
DetailsIn recent months news that China is rounding up Muslims (mostly Uighurs) en masse in its northwestern Xinjiang region to political re-education camps has shocked many, although the story is still massively under-reported. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have been disappeared in a campaign with absolutely no due process. Victims can…
DetailsEverything is, as they say, a matter of perspective. And of relation, of one to another, to others. Hong Kong is a small place. As a city in its own right, its 7.3 million people make Hong Kong the 46th biggest city in the world by population, and the 104th biggest country in the world,…
Details
