Slave labor camps are supplying American fashion brands

“This forced labor is connected to Western supply chains and consumers.” https://www.fastcompany.com/90419431/slave-labor-camps-are-supplying-american-fashion-brands?fbclid=IwAR0Fe6g8nAolcbHmxA0moDHd4iAbhVsOSFSxqX6EK4bGeuKYxCouHdVqyo8 BY ELIZABETH SEGRAN3 MINUTE READ Slavery and indentured labor is widespread in the fashion industry, as I’ve reported in the past. This week, the South China Morning Post reports that China experts have gone …

Vicious and Unspeakable: Uighur girls forced to sex slavery in Chinese factories

http://uighurtimes.com/index.php/vicious-and-unspeakable-uighur-girls-forced-to-sex-slavery-in-chinese-factories/?fbclid=IwAR0cQRqzCj-J3-tSeptWiDOWQG1rRaFdulNQ2iX-zm7W2INvWGJqG8fgiPA By Tahir Imin Uighurian Translated by Fatimah Abdulghafur Seyyah 2019-10-18 No matter how bitter the news is, it’s the media’s responsibility to tell the truth. According to the labor transfer from East Turkistan (a.k.a. Xinjiang) to China’s inner provinces …

China accused of running secret ‘rape and torture’ camps holding one million Muslims

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1192785/China-news-Uyghur-political-prisoners-Xinjiang-Islam-religion-reeducation-torture?fbclid=IwAR3H4g_FGN9kQ-5DEzK7D0-r9Ygde6w3F7wHTg44-q54N0xY2d7BH0gzozU A woman from Xinjiang has spoken about her treatment in a re-education camp administered by the Chinese government. PlayUnmuteCurrent Time 0:30/Duration 1:11Loaded: 0%Progress: 0% FacebookTwitterShareFullscreen  Xinjiang is home to millions of members of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority. They are considered a Turkic …

Nur Iman holds a picture of her father in front of the White House in Washington in September. COURTESY OF NUR IMAN

I Was a Model Uighur. China Took My Family Anyway.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/08/i-was-a-model-uighur-china-took-my-family-anyway/?fbclid=IwAR0MoV7bV8_O1yoX71eHeCJ4v_Y83vOTo9GQgvL5Z3ozyABc5v57FlzKfVI Beijing says it’s releasing people from the camps. So where are my parents? BY NUR IMAN | OCTOBER 8, 2019, 11:41 AM After more than a year of denial that they even existed, the Chinese Communist Party at last admitted, last fall, …

Shahrizat and Shahdiyar Shavkat.

‘If They Send Us Back to China We Will Die’: Uighur Brothers Fight Deportation From Russia

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/10/09/if-they-send-us-back-to-china-we-will-die-uighur-brothers-fight-deportation-from-russia-a67646 By Pjotr SauerOct. 9, 2019 KAZAN — At first sight, Shahrizat and Shahdiyar Shavkat, 23-year-old twin brothers from China, look like regular students. They spend their days listening to music, playing sports and hanging out with friends in Kazan, Russia’s sixth-largest city and …

Hesenjan Ismail in an undated photo.

21st Century concentration camps in East Turkestan by Chinese Invader

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/school-10072019173008.html?fbclid=IwAR3jNMTrgtjKrjwQRD49-wmtOAmACC49yrwJn2l8rgbPqIR3on1p5SIflOQ October 7, 2019 The Uyghur co-founder of a school in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who was detained in June last year is being held in an internment camp, presumably because the school taught courses in Turkish, …

This traditional Uighur cemetery in Shayar, in China's Xinjiang region, was destroyed.

China disturbs even the Uighur dead in ‘development’ of Xinjiang

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/10/11/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/death-uighurs-long-reach-china/?fbclid=IwAR1rRJ60XO5u4A8kqdxBljl2vRYjMCv33L1UpHcmVKAtOCtW22kCsFILagg#.XaHqF0YzbMV BY EVA XIAO AND PAK YIU AFP-JIJI SHAYAR, CHINA – China is destroying burial grounds where generations of Uighur families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group’s …

Family of Uyghur in Belgium Under House Arrest After Abduction From Embassy in Beijing

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/arrest-10102019142104.html?fbclid=IwAR2zn4TeSHQID5dNpICOJ4-9r1z6Hjvp-Dni4UW_nYcIwsFaQSWTk47o1B0 OCtober 10, 2019 The wife and children of a Uyghur man living in Belgium are under house arrest in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), months after they were abducted from the Belgian Embassy in Beijing by Chinese …

Tashpolat Tiyip (left) receives an honorary degree for his work on arid ecosystems ecology from the Sorbonne in Paris in November 2008. NURY TIYIP

‘There’s no hope for the rest of us.’ Uyghur scientists swept up in China’s massive detentions

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/there-s-no-hope-rest-us-uyghur-scientists-swept-china-s-massive-detentions?fbclid=IwAR2UZBsNzsoviwqMylcFs1nyy0meBJTrs4KpVK4r_XoR39tdVO-vDTpJ2rQ By Catherine MatacicOct. 10, 2019 , 11:45 AM No one outside the Chinese government knows where Tashpolat Tiyip is. No one knows exactly what charges have been filed against him. The only thing that anyone really knows is that in …