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In Xinjiang, Rare Protests Came Amid Lockdown
Six months after China rolled out its first coronavirus lockdown in Wuhan in late January 2020, Urumqi was placed under quarantine. The first lockdown specifically targeting the capital of the
The right condemns China over its Uighur abuses. The left must do so too | Owen Jones
Western hawks are playing global power games. But that shouldn’t stop all of us who care for human rights speaking out, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Boris Johnson warns against ‘unthinking sinophobia’ in China ties
The prime minister’s comments come amid heightened tensions with Beijing over its Hong Kong crackdown, forced labour in Xinjiang and the UK’s Huawei ban.
Australia urged to tighten anti-slavery laws as UK cracks down on Chinese forced labour
Australia’s laws leave the door wide open for imported products made with forced labour in Xinjiang, the ACTU and Human Rights Watch say
China in darkest period for human rights since Tiananmen, says rights group
Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to condemn Beijing
China pulls 10,000 troops from India border, source says
Beijing sees little prospect of a conflict in the Himalayan area over winter, according to source close to Chinese military.
How I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs
The long read: After 10 years living in France, I returned to China to sign some papers and I was locked up. For the next two years, I was systematically dehumanised, humiliated and brainwashed
Raab to clampdown on firms linked to forced labour in Xinjiang
Companies could face fines amid demands UK government do more to challenge China
Twitter removes China US embassy post saying Uighur women no longer 'baby-making machines'
Post claimed women in Xinjiang had been ‘emancipated’ as a result of China’s claimed efforts to eradicate extremism
‘Because There Were Cameras, I Didn’t Ask Any Questions’
Sometime in the summer of 2019, Vera Zhou, a young college student from the University of Washington, forgot to pretend that she was from the non-Muslim majority group in China, the Han. At a
'Nowhere to be found': Harvard coalition says US must fight to free young Uighur
Exclusive: More than 70 Harvard student organisations sign open letter urging US state department to take stronger action over Ekpar Asat
Japan gave key intel on China's Uyghur crackdown to U.S. and Britain
The move comes amid calls within the Japanese government to join the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing alliance amid growing threats from China and North Korea.
Pressure on Turkey to protect Uighurs as China ratifies extradition treaty
Ankara has long welcomed Uighur and Turkic Muslims fleeing China but rights groups fear the treaty will endanger them
Chinese state media denies BBC reports of Xinjiang forced labour
The British broadcaster said recently it had found evidence that hundreds of thousands of Uygurs were being forced to pick cotton.
China ratifies Turkey extradition deal in push to ‘combat terrorism’
Action comes three years after the treaty was signed in Beijing. The document does not refer to specific groups but Turkey has long been a refuge for Uygurs fleeing Xinjiang.
Alibaba offered clients facial recognition to identify Uighur people, report reveals
Software could be used to identify videos filmed and uploaded by Uighur person, says IPVM
ICC asks for more evidence on Uighur genocide claims
Court expected to rule there is still insufficient evidence against China, but file to be kept open
Australian Uighur man reunited with wife and son who had been under house arrest in China since 2017
Sadam Abudusalam met his three-year-old son for the first time when he landed in Sydney
China denies the use of forced labour in this industrial park, but won’t let reporters visit. The Globe went anyway
Shrouded in secrecy, the prison-like Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park complex is using the region’s Muslim minority as an industrial work force and allegedly committing human-rights abuses
How the CCP Took over the Most Sacred of Uighur Rituals
The rooster hadn’t even stopped his crowing when the police arrived at my Uighur host’s courtyard in rural Turpan one early spring morning in 2008. Although they spoke calmly, almost apologetically,
Uyghur ‘caretaking’ and the isolation of reeducation
In Uyghur society, lending money is more than capital exchange, it’s part of a practice that social theorist AbdouMaliq Simone refers to as “taking care.” In Xinjiang, as China’s “People’s War on Terror” accelerated, money transfers across international boundaries were seen as a possible sign of extremism — just another way that Uyghurs were cut off from their support networks and isolated from one another.
Former Shanghai Shenhua striker calls out soccer for ignoring Uyghur plight
In other Chinese soccer news, 2,000 live spectators were allowed to watch Beijing Guo’an play Shanghai SIPG in the Suzhou bubble. Meanwhile, Guangzhou Evergrande pulled out a 2-1 victory over Jiangsu thanks to Zheng Zhi, its 40-year-old team captain.
‘They screamed like babies’: Uyghur prisoner describes abuse in Xinjiang
In one of the most detailed accounts from a Uyghur prisoner in Xinjiang to date, the fashion model Merdan Ghappar leaked video and text describing his detention, including instances of torture that he witnessed. Ghappar’s account shows that even well-integrated Uyghurs are being targeted, and that arbitrary detentions have continued into 2020.
The ‘bright future’ of Chinese life in Xinjiang
Life in the big city can be hard for Chinese migrant workers, but in Urumqi, economic incentives give them more opportunities than they’d get elsewhere. Provided that they are ethnically Han, that is.
U.S. sanctions the biggest ‘company’ in Xinjiang
The U.S. has announced new sanctions on the biggest state-owned entity in Xinjiang, the Chinese region where a million or more Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have been subject to extra-legal detentions.
Hosting the hostage: Looking beneath China’s policy to infiltrate Uyghur homes
While programs such as “Visit the People, Benefit the People, and Bring Together the Hearts of the People” 访惠聚 and “United as One Family” 结对认亲 have conscripted over 1 million Han civilians and sent them to live with Uyghurs in arranged homestays, the Chinese Communist Party’s contrived attempt to require Han people to share intimate moments and spaces with Uyghurs is fraught with paternalism, deception, and ethnocentrism; as such, it will be unlikely to alleviate Uyghur distrust of the Party and Han people.
Xinjiang cotton and selfie cameras: U.S. blacklists Chinese companies that use forced Uyghur labor
The U.S. blacklisted 11 Chinese companies yesterday, some for well-documented coerced labor, and others for their involvement in invasive biometric tracking of Uyghurs. The companies had supplied American brands such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Nike, and Apple.
A shipment of Uyghur hair?
The U.S. blocked a shipment of hair extensions and accessories from China on the grounds that the products may have been made using forced labor in an internment camp in Xinjiang.
‘Demographic genocide’ in Xinjiang
The latest depressing report about the plight of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang comes from the Associated Press, which reports on a “widespread and systematic” campaign of forced birth control. Some experts are calling the campaign “demographic genocide.”
Pompeo warns Chinese counterpart of ‘more confrontation to come’
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his most direct Chinese counterpart, Yáng Jiéchí 杨洁篪 — who holds two equally important titles, Politburo member, and director of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China — met yesterday in Hawaii. It was the first high-level diplomatic meeting between the U.S. and China in months, but don’t mistake that for a sign of détente.
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U.S. puts new restrictions on Chinese companies with ties to Xinjiang
The U.S. Commerce Department says new restrictions on 33 Chinese companies with ties to Xinjiang, China’s military, and efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction will go into effect on Friday. The companies are based in mainland China, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands.
‘Uyghurs are so bad’: Chinese dinner table politics in Xinjiang
There was a time, not too long ago, when friendship was possible between the Han Chinese of Xinjiang and their Uyghur neighbors. But where there once was camaraderie, now there is suspicion, fear, and empty slogans.
His dictionaries taught Chinese to the Uyghur world. Then he was taken away
Hüsenjan was a Chinese state employee — and member of the Chinese Communist Party — tasked with creating dictionaries for the Uyghur language. His work couldn’t save him.
Preserving Uyghur art and culture amid cultural genocide
This article first appeared on Asia Art Tours, a project that tries to highlight art and activism in Asia through media and travel. Follow them on…
‘Heaviness in the stomach’: A Uyghur daughter alone in America on her birthday during a pandemic
“I started to see a sadness in their eyes. They had become sad. They didn’t know what to do, so they just accepted it.” Post-disappearance…
Nike reacts to reports of Uyghur forced labor
The China Project illustration by Derek Zheng Nike is “reviewing its suppliers’ hiring practices in China,” the Washington Post reports, after reports that one of…
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.
