New evidence emerges of China forcing Muslims into ‘reeducation’ camps

September 28, 2018       Comments Off on New evidence emerges of China forcing Muslims into ‘reeducation’ camps

 

Originally published by The Washington Post on August 10, 2018 ZHARKENT, Kazakhstan — First-of-its-kind courtroom testimony here has corroborated allegations that the Chinese government has built a network of internment camps in western China where Muslim minorities are held without charge for “reeducation.” Sayragul Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh Chinese national, said she crossed from China’s Xin­jiang (read more…)

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Reports China holds million of Uighurs in secret camps: UN

September 28, 2018       Comments Off on Reports China holds million of Uighurs in secret camps: UN

 

Originally published by Reuters on August 11, 2018 Geneva: A United Nations human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” Gay McDougall, a member of (read more…)

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United Nations fears more than one million could be detained in China in ‘secret internment camp’

September 28, 2018       Comments Off on United Nations fears more than one million could be detained in China in ‘secret internment camp’

 

Originally published by News Corp Australia Network on August 12, 2018 CHINA could have more than one million people detained in what United Nations officials have described as a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy”. Many credible reports suggest that Uighurs and Muslim minorities have been forced into “political (read more…)

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U.N. Panel Confronts China Over Reports That It Holds a Million Uighurs in Camps

September 28, 2018       Comments Off on U.N. Panel Confronts China Over Reports That It Holds a Million Uighurs in Camps

 

Originally published by The New York Times on August 10, 2018 GENEVA — United Nations human rights experts expressed alarm on Friday over what they said were many credible reports that China had detained a million or more ethnic Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang and forced as many as (read more…)

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Tens of Thousands of Xinjiang’s Kuchar County Residents Held in Political ‘Re-Education Camps’

September 28, 2018       Comments Off on Tens of Thousands of Xinjiang’s Kuchar County Residents Held in Political ‘Re-Education Camps’

 

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 9, 2018 More than 45,000 residents of a mostly Uyghur-populated county in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being held in three main political “re-education camps,” according to a local official, who said the facilities are guarded by armed personnel. Beginning (read more…)

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China: one in five arrests take place in ‘police state’ Xinjiang

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Originally published by The Guardian on July 25, 2018 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. Analysing publicly available government data, the advocacy group Chinese (read more…)

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Survey: Three Million, Mostly Uyghurs, in Some Form of Political ‘Re-Education’ in Xinjiang

September 26, 2018       Comments Off on Survey: Three Million, Mostly Uyghurs, in Some Form of Political ‘Re-Education’ in Xinjiang

 

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 3, 2018 Up to 3 million residents of northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), especially ethnic Uyghurs, may have been detained in political “re-education camps” or forced to attend “education sessions” for “de-radicalization” as of June, rights groups said Friday. Beginning in (read more…)

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US urged to sanction Chinese officials overseeing sweeping crackdown in Muslim region

September 26, 2018       Comments Off on US urged to sanction Chinese officials overseeing sweeping crackdown in Muslim region

 

Originally published by HKFP on July 27, 2018 The Chinese official overseeing a sweeping security crackdown in China’s far west Xinjiang region should be targeted in potential sanctions, a US congressional commission has heard. Since hardline official Chen Quanguo was transferred from Tibet to govern China’s Muslim region in August 2016, (read more…)

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How a Chinese region that accounts for just 1.5% of the population became one of the most intrusive police states in the world

September 26, 2018       Comments Off on How a Chinese region that accounts for just 1.5% of the population became one of the most intrusive police states in the world

 

Originally published by Business Insider on July 31, 2018 China’s Xinjiang region is home to 1.5% of the country’s population, but accounted for one in five arrests in 2017. This didn’t include the hundreds of thousands of people, possibly as many as 1 million, who are being held in extrajudicial (read more…)

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Official’s Testimony Sheds New Light On Chinese ‘Reeducation Camps’ For Muslims

September 26, 2018       Comments Off on Official’s Testimony Sheds New Light On Chinese ‘Reeducation Camps’ For Muslims

 

Originally published by Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty on July 29, 2018 ZHARKENT, Kazakhstan — The trial of an ethnic-Kazakh Chinese citizen accused of illegally entering Kazakhstan has taken on implications far beyond whether she will be reunited with her family near Almaty or deported back to China. That’s because 41-year-old (read more…)

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Report Shows Sharp Rise in Arrests in China’s Troubled Xinjiang Province

September 26, 2018       Comments Off on Report Shows Sharp Rise in Arrests in China’s Troubled Xinjiang Province

 

Originally published by Latin American Herald Tribune on July 25, 2018 BEIJING – The number of arrests in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province rose sharply in 2007 owing to a government crackdown that allegedly targeted religious and ethnic minorities such as the Uighurs, nonprofit China Human Rights Defenders said on Wednesday. According to (read more…)

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NGOs note ‘staggering’ rise in arrests as China cracks down on minorities in Muslim region

September 26, 2018       Comments Off on NGOs note ‘staggering’ rise in arrests as China cracks down on minorities in Muslim region

 

Originally published by HKFP on July 25, 2018 The crackdown by Chinese authorities on “separatism” led to an alarming rise in criminal arrests in Xinjiang in 2017, according to NGOs China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) and the Equal Rights Initiative. The NGOs made a joint submission to the United Nations Committee (read more…)

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