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From Xinjiang to Shanghai and Beijing, protests are creating a rare sense of unity that Xi Jinping cannot afford to allow
China’s heavy-handed zero-Covid policy was intended to save lives. Now, it’s having devastating consequences. Last week, a fire killed at least 10 people, including (…)
The Uighur question has suddenly become a stake in the political struggle in Belgium, between the PS and even more ECOLO, on the one hand, and the PTB, on the other hand. The former accuses the latter of complicity with the genocide of the Uighur people, the latter accuses the former of (…)
Chinese authorities using a data-driven ‘predictive policing’ network to intern people from Muslim minorities
A rare leak of a prisoner list from a Chinese internment camp shows how a government data programme targets Muslim minorities for detention over transgressions that include simply (…)
Self-presentation of The Uyghur Solidarity Campaign UK (USC-UK): Solidarity from the UK workers’ movement for the Uyghur people’s struggle for freedom.
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The Uyghur Solidarity Campaign UK (USC-UK) is building and bringing together support in the workers’ movement for the Uyghur (…)
China’s Han settler colonial model has turned Uyghur and Kazakh communities into open-air prisons
Sometime in May 2017 an ethnic Kazakh woman was detained in Ürümchi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as “Xinjiang,” “Northwest China,” “East Turkestan,” (…)
Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said on Friday, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region.
Rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking people have been (…)
Construction has continued despite Beijing’s claim ‘re-education’ system is winding down
China has built nearly 400 internment camps in Xinjiang region, with construction on dozens continuing over the last two years, even as Chinese authorities said their “re-education” system was winding (…)
Our findings from satellite images reveal 380 detention camps in Xinjiang, pointing to a campaign of ethnic replacement
Since 2017, Xinjiang in China has been reeling from a brutal crackdown outlawing both public and private displays of Uighur culture or identity, not to mention political (…)
An advert posted in November 2019 alerted employers across China to a lucrative opportunity. “1000 ethnic minorities” from Xinjiang were available for hire in batches of 100 or more. “Semi-military style management” under “government-appointed cadres” assured their compliance. Prospective (…)
Human rights coalition says cotton produced in camps in Xinjiang region finds its way into one in five cotton products worldwide.
Many of the world’s biggest fashion brands and retailers are complicit in the forced labour and human rights violations being perpetrated on millions of Uighur (…)
A huge network of internment camps for those displaying the slightest sign of ‘extremism’, where, according to some ex-detainees, Muslims are encouraged to renounce their religion. Closure and demolition of mosques, with intense surveillance of those still functioning. Severe restrictions on the (…)
Muslim minorities in Xinjiang are facing unprecedented repression. David Brophy argues that socialists should offer solidarity to the repressed minorities without pinning hopes on Washington as an ally of the Uyghur cause.
Aerial view of Urumqi, Xinjiang, July 2017. Photo: Anagoria via (…)
UN panel says 1m ethnic Uighur Muslims being held in internment camps in Xinjiang
China has denied claims made during a UN panel last week that authorities are suppressing the rights of Muslim minorities in the west of the country in the name of fighting terrorism.
A Chinese delegation told (…)
Xinjiang, home to about 12 million Muslims, has been the focus of an intense government crackdown
One in five arrests in China last year took place in Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous western territory that critics say has been turned into a police state rife with human rights violations. (…)
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) unequivocally condemns the violence that took place at Kunming railway station on 1 March 2014, in which 29 people were reportedly killed. The WUC expresses its condolences to the victims and their families.
One named person has been implicated in the attack, (…)
International Federation for Human rights (FIDH)
Press Release
China
FIDH calls for an independent and impartial investigation in Xinjiang
Paris, 10 July 2009 - On 5 July, a protest in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, turned violent and the security (…)
The events that took place on July 5, 2009, in Urumqi – the capital town of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, in far west China – and that have left its streets blood-stained, are “unprecedented” in the last twenty years. The extent of the events is so serious that President Hu Jintao has been (…)
The broader roots of the eruption of protest in China’s far-west region of Xinjiang lie in the experience of the Uighur people under Beijing’s rule, says Yitzhak Shichor.
The reports of violence and deaths in the city of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province in northwest China, draw (…)
The heart of Kashgar - a place where Uighur people have lived and worked for centuries - is being destroyed or transformed into a tourist theme-park, and its people resettled. In a pattern familiar in modern China no one has asked the Uighurs themselves, says Henryk Szadziewski.
In the heart (…)
The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of China has seen a series of clashes between the majority Uighurs and Han Chinese settlers since the 1980s. But it was in the city of Yining that the largest protest took place on 5 February 1997. Initially written off by the Chinese authorities as an (…)
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