UHRP REPORT: “Ideological Transformation”: Records of Mass Detention from Qaraqash, Hotan

https://uhrp.org/press-release/%E2%80%9Cideological-transformation%E2%80%9D-records-mass-detention-qaraqash-hotan.html?fbclid=IwAR00RJsuNUNQdfJ-uh_G3tWYBqJsQlbGtgY_0MDGW5LRo9jDY6iw9jHihlEPublished Tue, 02/18/2020 – 09:00 For immediate release February 18, 2020 9:00 am EST Contact: Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) +1 (202) 478 1920 In 2019, low-level government officials from Bostan subdistrict, Qaraqash county, Hotan prefecture compiled information about Uyghur internees under …

‘Once Their Mental State Is Healthy, They Will Be Able to Live Happily in Society’

https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/once-their-mental-state-healthy-they-will-be-able-live-happily-society?fbclid=IwAR0mQG_rh0u7d50ST9LcX44UsVE53vqbacYZCyCeeGWW4iFi1RGjjFKCMjA How China’s Government Conflates Uighur Identity with Mental Illness August 2, 2019 ven the neatly staged scene inside one of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region’s concentration re-education centers was unnerving. An unidentified young Uighur woman dressed in a red …

In Xinjiang, Tourism Erodes the Last Traces of Uyghur Culture

https://www.wired.com/story/xinjiang-uyghur-culture-tourism/?fbclid=IwAR3_0m2z1Y3iPnIg52uw5exDbf-J4fqa2NN_IWHaTFMGx4o7Jcbc1qP8D8M In the far-western reaches of China, the Communist party has long tried to eliminate markers of the Muslim ethnic minority group’s identity. LIKE THE REST of the country, China’s far-western Xinjiang Province is slowly starting to open up after months of near-total …

Supplying Our Consumption: Uighur Muslims Are Forced Into Factory Labour Suggests New Report

15 Mar, 2020  in China / Current Events by Charlie Smith (updated on March 15, 2020) https://theowp.org/supplying-our-consumption-uighur-muslims-are-forced-into-factory-labour-suggests-new-report/?fbclid=IwAR3aoMHU9pu5_QHMMz3uPrPlIkVAP7wp-jQnDPXRxWxAutjrnzHvw3jj0Ek In recent years, the Uighurs, the majority of whom populate the Xinjiang region in the country’s north-west, have been consistently corralled into internment camps and re-education centres by state authorities on …

Karluk: I, a Uyghur, denounce Chinese fascism in Xinjiang

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Karluk:-I,-a-Uyghur,-denounce-Chinese-fascism-in-Xinjiang-49552.html?fbclid=IwAR0z8Yk9boa1Q0WlMMU71d_Ip560SEu5eWEo3T4iWiT5U7dOBm6RKRaRNDo The Uyghur dissident intellectual has been fighting for years with the Beijing authorities. The battle with “tweets” with the Chinese embassy in Ankara. Family members interned to force him to silence. A brother and grandson imprisoned in a concentration …

Xinjiang Camps Were Built as Prisons, Their Builders Expose

03/14/2020CHANG XIN https://bitterwinter.org/xinjiang-camps-were-built-as-prisons/?fbclid=IwAR3t2_A0uR0Plz_9RMNK0S4nZ_XQOEijDxVXS128xeiXzVaA1erTygR2oBE Workers who were hired to build transformation through education camps in Xinjiang reveal details about the jails that the CCP likes to call “vocational schools.” by Chang Xin In November 2018, Bitter Winter published exclusive videos and photos from inside …

Xinjiang’s Camps Are ‘Ideal’ Settings for Infections to Spread

03/12/2020LI BENBOA+ | A- An ex-detainee and relatives of those who have died in transformation through education camps share their horrifying experiences with Bitter Winter. by Li Benbo https://bitterwinter.org/xinjiangs-camps-are-ideal-settings-for-infections-to-spread/?fbclid=IwAR2ODElOxA-00JjRSqSA_NeuStsF0FCa4fVk9vkur5FAufwZUwecBTT2TFA Rights activists and relatives of those interred in Xinjiang’s transformation through education camps are raising concerns that …

‘Two-Faced’ Former Uyghur Forestry Official Sentenced to Life in Prison in Xinjiang

2020-03-10 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/life-03102020141909.html?fbclid=IwAR1RVyLtKDdC1geOzGYBuhUxuuPPU5mSZ02ZhqkItsLQefVfRnzQ5LH46qo Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced the Uyghur former head of the region’s forestry bureau to life in prison despite nearly four decades of government service, according to his U.S.-based children. RFA’s Uyghur …