An Australian national security agency head was shown a secret list of about 100 Chinese fugitives that Beijing believes live in Australia, evidence the communist nation’s hunt for former officials and business people is much wider than publicly known. The Weekend Australian can reveal a Chinese minister produced the list during a private lunch in Beijing…
DetailsXinjiang region of China today reflects an extreme manifestation of a new ‘Surveillance State’ by the all powerful regime of Xi Jinping. Interestingly, this comes with a high-handed combination of technology and a strong flavour of communism. Its aim is not only to prevent the wave of both global…
DetailsXinjiang is called the “core zone” of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but given how long it takes to get there from India, core connectivity is definitely not a thing yet. From Delhi, one flies six hours east to Shanghai, transits to an airport an hour away, and then flies six hours back west…
DetailsAccording to official figures, China has about 25 million Muslims, about the number in Yemen and Uzbekistan, twice the number in Tunisia and nearly 50 per-cent more than in Syria. At a first glance, this is an impressive number, but a closer look shows that Muslims account for less than two per-cent of China’s total…
DetailsAs recently reported in the press, since Spring 2017, hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in Xinjiang have “disappeared” into “political re-education centres,”euphemistically labelled mäktäp (Uy. schools) by frightened locals. Their purported crimes vary from travelling abroad to study (or having a relative who did so) to having Western social media apps on their phone. Most…
DetailsTo suppress views of China that it does not like, the party is trying to replicate its domestic censorship on a global scale, says Isabel Hilton This is a guest contribution to our debate: Should the West worry about the threat to liberal values posed by China’s rise? KISHORE MAHBUBANI urges “Western minds” to seek…
DetailsAstana can’t afford to push Beijing too hard, even on behalf of its own citizens detained in Xinjiang re-education camps. In early 2017, reports began to emerge that Chinese authorities in Xinjiang were ratcheting up security, flying in troops, and parading police convoys through the region’s cities. Chen Quanguo, appointed Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang the previous…
DetailsChina’s massively popular social media platform WeChat appears to have further tightened requirements for user registration, demanding access to all files and media content, and potentially giving the authorities access to everything on a user’s smartphone, RFA has learned. A newly registered WeChat account resulted in a pop-up request on Thursday, calling for permission to…
DetailsAuthorities in Qaraqash (in Chinese, Moyu) county, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have detained nearly half of the population of a village in “political re-education camps,” according to a local official. Beginning in April 2017, Uyghurs accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” views have been jailed or detained in…
DetailsChina’s surveillance state already tracks people’s faces. Now it’s also going to track their cars, the Wall Street Journal has reported (paywall). From July 1, China’s Ministry of Public Security will oversee a program to install a radio-frequency identification chip in the windshields of new cars when they’re registered. While installing the chips won’t be mandatory this…
DetailsFIFPro is concerned about the reported detention of one of China’s most promising young footballers. Erfan Hezim was reportedly taken to a “political re-education camp” in February for “visiting foreign countries” when he returned home from a trip to Spain and Dubai. The 19-year-old striker — also known as Ye Erfan – last year signed a 5-year…
DetailsDolkun Isa, the president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress exile group, recently learned from a close family friend that his mother, Ayhan Memet, died in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) on May 17 at the age of 78. Isa, who has lived in exile since 1994, last spoke with his mother more…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe firms profiting from China’s rights abuses are often backed by Western investors. BY CHARLES ROLLET ILLUSTRATION BY JOE MAGEE FOR FOREIGN POLICY In the far western region of Xinjiang, China has created one of the world’s most sophisticated and intrusive state surveillance systems to target the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority. Part of what Beijing…
DetailsGulag Style When we talk about Xinjiang’s re-education system, we often compare it with Soviet’s Gulag. Satellite imageries also confirm many re-education camps are heavily guarded detention facilities like Gulag or Nazi camps. More satellite imageries: List of Re-education Camps in Xinjiang 新疆再教育集中营列表 All satellite images are from Google Earth.medium.com But this kind of Gulag…
DetailsMore 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…
DetailsThere 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…
DetailsAdditional 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…
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