In China’s Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, there have been reports of “re-education” camps where over 200,000 “suspects” are being held. DW spoke with researcher Adrian Lenz about the veracity of the reports. DW: Where is information about the re-education camps in Xinjiang coming from? Adrian Zenz: The most important sources are government reports that are often…
DetailsEditor’s Note: China is advancing an illiberal alternative to the universal values that the United States and its partners have championed for decades, writes Ryan Hass. On the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen Incident, it’s worth remembering China’s expanding efforts to muzzle criticism of its human rights record. This piece originally appeared on The Hill. Beijing’s recent intimidation…
DetailsParody of Chinese president covered human rights abuses and memes comparing Xi’s figure with Winnie the Pooh The British comedian John Oliver has been scrubbed from China’s version of Twitter after the host of Last Week Tonight ran a 20-minute segment satirising Chinese president Xi Jinping. New posts mentioning his name or the show have been blocked on…
DetailsWill the Repression in Xinjiang Influence Beijing’s Social Credit System? In recent months, troubling details have emerged about a sprawling network of secretive political reeducation camps in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang. Both official and leaked evidence indicates that up to one million Muslims, chiefly from the Uighur minority, have been interned without legal proceedings.…
DetailsOne of the worst human rights abuses in recent times is occurring in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang. The Chinese Communist Party has rounded up possibly one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in purpose-built concentration camps where they are subjected to mental and physical abuse without legal recourse. Despite the scale and intensity of this…
DetailsPolitical indoctrination camps unlawfully holding upwards of one million Uyghurs was raised last night during @HBO’s @LastWeekTonight w/ John Oliver. John Oliver touches on the XJ situation and makes reference to recent Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and AP News pieces, including the video testimony by Tahir Hamut. “…making ‘Uncle Xi’ less like your fun…
DetailsChina’s concerns with terrorism are almost entirely focused on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang’s geopolitical position at the eastern edge of the Islamic and Turkic-speaking world and the ethno-cultural distinctiveness of its largely Turkic-Muslim ethnic groups have constituted a challenge to the centralising imperatives of successive Chinese governments. Domestically, this has resulted in the extreme securitisation…
DetailsWe’re now live with our director talking about the current situation of the Uyghurs and Kazakhs in China.
