カテゴリー: Uighurs
Faced with problems at home and abroad, Beijing will seek to boost nationalist sentiment by blaming foreign influences In early December, China’s ministry of foreign affairs jumped the Great Fire Wall used by Beijing to block access to many foreign web…
Cheng Jingye also says detained Australian writer Yang Hengjun’s rights are being protectedChina’s ambassador to Australia has labelled reports that one million Uighurs are being held in detention “fake news”, seeking to excuse mass incarceration as a …
Player, who has 4 million followers on Chinese microblog Weibo, is called a ‘dirty ant’ for attacking ChinaChinese football fans have burned Arsenal football shirts and called on the club to fire star player Mesut Özil after he publicly criticised Chin…
Xinjiang governor offers no evidence of release but says ‘trainees’ have found stable jobsChina has said Uighurs and other minorities believed to be detained in Xinjiang have been freed, repeating claims made previously but offering no evidence of thei…
Rushan Abbas says countries doing business with China are enabling its mass detention of 3 million people, including her sisterA leading Uighur activist, Rushan Abbas, has urged Australian MPs to take a stronger stance against the Chinese regime, while…
Legislation in response to crackdown in Xinjiang prompts angry response from BeijingThe US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to China’s crackdown on its Musli…
State-run Global Times suggests visa restrictions are coming and that Hong Kong-related sanctions are just the beginningUS diplomats may soon be barred from entering Xinjiang, the far north-western Chinese region where more than a million Uighurs and o…
Officials instructed to subject Australians to identity verification and either deport or detain them in Xinjiang internment camps, leaked documents revealThe Chinese government “red-flagged” 23 Australian citizens in its sweeping crackdown in Xinjiang…
How China uses technology to push its campaign against Muslim minorities beyond its own bordersThe Chinese government used technology to expand its campaign against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities far beyond the country’s own borders, a rare leak f…
How China uses technology to push its campaign against Muslim minorities beyond its own bordersThe Chinese government used technology to expand its campaign against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities far beyond the country’s own borders, a rare leak f…
These were the words of China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, after he was asked about a chain of detention camps holding more than a million people from the country’s Muslim minority population in Xinjiang. The footage, due to be broadcast …
These were the words of China’s ambassador to the UK, Liu Xiaoming, after he was asked about a chain of detention camps holding more than a million people from the country’s Muslim minority population in Xinjiang. The footage, due to be broadcast …
The Chinese embassy in the UK comments on the Guardian’s reporting on the Uighur detention camp telegramsFirst, there are no so-called “detention camps” in Xinjiang. Vocational education and training centres have been established for the prevention of …
Documents confirm largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since second world warUighur’s 10-year term reveals level of repressionSecret memo on how to run campsThe internal workings of a vast chain of Chinese internment camps used to…
Excerpts from a 2017 ‘telegram’ from Zhu Hailun, the top security official for XinjiangReality of China’s vast prison camp network10-year sentence shows harsh reality of repressionThe internal workings of a vast system of Chinese internment camps used …