{"id":10205,"date":"2019-10-17T08:44:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/17\/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests"},"modified":"2019-10-17T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:44:40","slug":"think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10205","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Think of your family&#8217;: China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France have complained of intimidation by Beijing <\/p>\n<p>Two days after Abdujelil Emet sat in the public gallery of Germany\u2019s parliament during a hearing on human rights, he received a phone call from his sister for the first time in three years. But the call from Xinjiang, in western China, was anything but a joyous family chat. It was made at the direction of Chinese security officers, part of a campaign by Beijing to silence criticism of policies that have seen more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities detained in internment camps.<\/p>\n<p>Emet\u2019s sister began by praising the Communist party and making claims of a much improved life under its guidance before delivering a shock: his brother had died a year earlier. But Emet, 54, was suspicious from the start; he had never given his family his phone number. Amid the heartbreaking news and sloganeering, he could hear a flurry of whispers in the background, and he demanded to speak to the unknown voice. Moments later the phone was handed to a Chinese official who refused to identify himself.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/17\/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France have complained of intimidation by Beijing Two days after Abdujelil Emet sat in the public gallery of Germany\u2019s parliament during a hearing on human rights, he received a phone cal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,221,848,526,533,219,849,67,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-finland","category-france","category-germany","category-netherlands","category-sweden","category-uighurs","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10206,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}