ZHENGZHOU, 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…
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