UPDATE – Detained and Disappeared: Intellectuals Under Assault in the Uyghur Homeland

Tue, 05/21/2019 – 11:30 https://uhrp.org/press-release/update-%E2%80%93-detained-and-disappeared-intellectuals-under-assault-uyghur-homeland.html?fbclid=IwAR1vu1sWSC96g2aW4hOrxk7JcqZtQKn51vFuDxOds6wMAW9chWrvXefYnE8 May 21, 2019 11:30 am EST Contact: Uyghur Human Rights Project +1 (202) 478 1920 Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 435 intellectuals as part of its …

Artificial intelligence has been weaponized in China. That should be a wake-up call for the world

China is using AI to persecute its Uighur minority Kyle Matthews & Alexandrine Royer · for CBC News · Posted: May 21, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 21 https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/ai-china-1.5140612?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR0B7CRvlpfvtJDrwog-PdC26xvZ-19YlcLQLIYuabcCunLWZ4RFioGwMeA 1535 comments At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the philanthropist …

China’s ‘Algorithms of Oppression’: weaponizing artificial intelligence

DemDigest    May 21, 2019  https://www.demdigest.org/chinas-algorithms-of-oppression-weaponizing-artificial-intelligence/?fbclid=IwAR2Ekg2y0RSLsiOlyoPkzbLb4B1iuoL7wLS56sYdXcZ3JN_cLeU0Cz9GgPU Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 435 intellectuals as part of its intensified assault on Uyghurs and erasure of their culture. This group is likely a small fraction …

China changes university entrance exam rules to favor mixed families in troubled Xinjiang

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/17/asia-pacific/china-changes-university-entrance-exam-rules-favor-mixed-families-troubled-xinjiang/?fbclid=IwAR37kTuo7mFllHNeTJGj6g49g-p_cBpTSBIKZPQmDXUfc374Gt8WfJ0FWjY#.XODHmcgzbMU BEIJING – China’s fractious far-west region of Xinjiang has changed its university entrance exam rules to give children from mixed families a leg up on other students, in what experts say are the latest efforts to erase a mostly Muslim …

RFA Identifies Uyghur Detainees in Iconic Photo

The five men were held at the Lop county detention camp in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). 2019-05-17 https://www.rfa.org/english/multimedia/uyghur-iconic-photo-infographic-05172019155744.html?fbclid=IwAR3j0SPBdXHVELM5K6GQ7xUvkpxmnhw-Xwp1SQ18C7051K7IlbeD4Gb2nhk

Sweden grants refugee status to China’s Uighur Muslims, prompting calls for UK to follow suit

Muslims deported to Xinjiang face detainment in re-education camps where inmates have allegedly been tortured Chris Baynes Wednesday 20 March 2019 18:37 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-uighur-muslim-china-refugees-camps-asylum-seekers-a8832191.html?fbclid=IwAR2chHByc0DfllCTa16cLLw_Qc2CIAiD6Suxpw3EEHiGXYWr3ZzEEfSxMD4 Click to followThe Independent Sweden is to grant refugee status to all Uighur Muslim asylum-seekers from China, prompting calls for …

Time to sanction rights-abusing Chinese officials under Canada’s Magnitsky Act, experts say

Not a single Chinese official has been listed under the legislation since it was implemented 18 months ago May 15, 2019 4:48 PM EDT Filed under https://nationalpost.com/news/time-to-sanction-rights-abusing-chinese-officials-under-canadas-magnitsky-act-experts-say?fbclid=IwAR0Jj33rTVmWUbh2ATOnu-6wSRLbZHUP_bNbJrwk39eLvJw0T-M27tyHbc8 By some estimates, China has confined two million members of its Uyghur minority …

Pakistan abruptly stopped calling out China’s mass oppression of Muslims. Critics say Beijing bought its silence

Alexandra Ma Jan. 13, 2019, 4:30 AM https://www.businessinsider.com/pakistan-wont-call-out-china-uighur-oppression-shows-power-of-money-2019-1?fbclid=IwAR2q5UL5CtmYgmvawGDTK2u_8124VZB09tYKF2FvcSeV2wnlsx7kFeYcuj4 Pakistan, China’s largest economic ally in the Muslim world, abruptly stopped censuring Beijing over its unprecedented crackdown on Muslims. The shift clearly illustrates the power of Chinese money, activists and critics say. …

Mother of Disappeared Uyghur Man Released after Two Years in Detention

2016-05-31 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/uyghur-patigul-05312016140100.html?fbclid=IwAR1JuBAkEvHJfX9VIFtDlcZrGBBssprilRFXn7QCTUckhA_9-67ZilU-z48 A Uyghur mother whose son believed to have been forcibly taken away after 2009 riots in Urumqi was released on May 27 after two years in detention and reunited with her other children, a source close to the …