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

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

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…)

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

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

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…)

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

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…)

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

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

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…)

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

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

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…)

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

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

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…)

Chinese woman said to be detained after tossing ink on poster with image of President Xi Jinping

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by AFP on July 17, 2018 SHANGHAI (AFP) – A woman who live-streamed herself throwing ink onto a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping has been detained, according to activists who accuse authorities of suppressing speech to protect a “cult of personality” around the country’s leader. The US-based Chinese (read more…)

China Moves to Quash #MeToo Report of Sexual Harassment At Top University

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on July 11, 2018 China’s powerful propaganda authorities have ordered the deletion of an article about a string of reports of sexual assault and harassment by a lecturer at a top university in the southern province of Guangdong. “Delete the article headlined ‘She thought she (read more…)

Three Years After China’s Lawyer Crackdown, Rights Groups Call For Sanctions

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by Radio Free Asia on July 9, 2018 nternational rights groups have called on China to release all human rights lawyers who remain behind bars, three years after the ruling Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide crackdown on rights lawyers and activists. More than 300 lawyers, law firm (read more…)

NGOs Urge China to Release Activist Qin Yongmin from Jail

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by Latin America Herald Tribune on July11, 2018 BEIJING – Human rights organizations urged Chinese authorities on Thursday to release veteran Chinese democracy activist Qin Yongmin, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for subversion of state power, and asked the United Nations to intervene in what they (read more…)

Human Rights Group Urges China to Stop Persecuting Lawyers

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by Latin America Herald Tribune on July 9, 2018 BEIJING – A Chinese human rights group urged the government on Monday to probe the unlawful persecution of Chinese human rights lawyers, including arbitrary arrests and torture. Three years ago, China had cracked down heavily on human rights lawyers, arresting (read more…)

China urged to stop persecuting lawyers

September 26, 2018 Comments Off

Originally published by IANS on July 9, 2018 Beijing, Jul 9 (IANS): A Chinese human rights group on Monday urged the government to probe the unlawful persecution of Chinese human rights lawyers, including arbitrary arrests and torture. Three years ago China had cracked down heavily on human rights lawyers, arresting more (read more…)