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More than 80,000 Uyghurs in coerced labor across China — report
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute published an important report into a labor program in China called Xinjiang Aid, where ethnic minority Uyghurs are transferred to factories across the country under coercive conditions. More than 80,000 Uyghurs were put into the program from 2017 to 2019, the report says.
New leaks — Uyghurs targeted for behaviors with no connection to ‘separatism’
A new leak of documents from the Chinese government provides further details of the Chinese government’s vast system of surveillance and detainment in Xinjiang. The “Karakax list” is the third major such leak of government documents.
New leaks show how China targeted Muslims for internment
The China Project illustration by Derek Zheng A new leak of documents from the Chinese government provides further details of the Chinese government’s vast system…
The disappearance of Perhat Tursun, one of the Uyghur world’s greatest authors
Perhat Tursun is the preeminent modernist Uyghur author, a self-proclaimed Kafka character whose novels are among the most influential in Uyghur society. He was disappeared at the height of his powers by the Chinese state, a victim of the government’s re-education campaign in Xinjiang.
Mass detentions, surveillance, and ethnic repression in China’s far west: the situation right now
A scholar discusses forced labor in global chains, and the Chinese government’s collective punishment of the Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang…
2020 will be a big year in China sports. Here’s what to watch for
The China Sports Column is a The China Project weekly feature. The Tokyo Olympic Games as referendum Make no mistake, the pressure is on this year. After…
James Millward on China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
We interviewed Georgetown University Professor James Millward at the NEXT China 2019 Conference in New York City on November 21, 2019 for his thoughts on the Uyghur Crisis in Xinjiang.
‘The darkness only deepens’: A decade of stories of loss in Xinjiang
“It took me years to feel normal again. Actually, I still don’t feel normal.” “I realized that the Chinese Communist Party’s attitude toward us had…
The reason for China’s relatively muted response to Ozil’s Xinjiang comments
The China Sports Column is a The China Project weekly feature. Arsenal had already been under immense pressure for the past couple of months. The English giants…
Nationalism ruined my Chinese friendships
Xinjiang. Hong Kong. Democracy. Racism. How does an American-educated Chinese talk to her mainland Chinese friends about these subjects? Connie Mei Pickart tried, and found that her companions were far from brainwashed in their views. The reality was more worrisome.
Beijing says Uyghurs in internment camps have ‘graduated’
Screenshot from CGTN’s 50-minute video titled, “Fighting terrorism in Xinjiang” (link below) After exposés published by the New York Times (porous paywall) and the International Consortium of Investigative…
Scientists object to DNA collection from Uyghurs
As part of the Orwellian project of surveillance and control of Muslim ethnic minorities like Uyghurs in Xinjiang, Chinese authorities have systematically collected vast amounts of DNA samples and other biometric data. Why did Beijing want all that biometric data? The New York Times has revealed at least one compelling reason: “Chinese scientists are trying to find a way to use a DNA sample to create an image of a person’s face.”
U.S. House passes Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019
The aim of the bill is “to address gross violations of universally recognized human rights, including the mass internment of over 1,000,000 Uyghurs.”
A Xinjiang scholar’s close reading of the China Cables
“Never allow escapes, never allow trouble, never allow attacks on staff, never allow abnormal deaths…” Darren Byler analyzes the 25 key points in the Chinese…
A second major Xinjiang leak
Only one week after the New York Times revealed records of high-level officials commanding the crackdown in Xinjiang, a second leak has further confirmed the worst of reporting about that ongoing atrocity. The new leaks, from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), directly concern the Chinese state’s management of its system of concentration camps, and confirm that they are indeed managed like high-security prisons.
Xi Jinping on Xinjiang in leaked documents: ‘Absolutely no mercy’
Photo: Gilles Sabrié, New York Times Over the weekend, the New York Times published one of the most significant document leaks from the Chinese government in decades. The…
Ilham Tohti’s Sakharov Prize and the desecration of Uyghur society
Ilham Tohti was famous for pushing back against the material and social dispossession of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. When even this moderate scholar was silenced five years ago, it signalled that there was no more space to publicly suggest ways to oppose the elimination of Uyghur culture. The Sakharov Prize honors the dignity of Uyghur social life and the way Ilham Tohti strove to protect it.
