Michelle Bachelet cited Beijing’s treatment of ethnic Uighurs and the blockade of Gaza as examples of harsh injustice across the world.
Tag: Uighurs (Chinese Ethnic Group)
He Needed a Job. China Gave Him One: Locking Up His Fellow Muslims.
China’s vast detention program for Muslims has required more and more police officers. And recruits are coming from the very ethnic groups that are being suppressed.
China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise
The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control.
‘Show Me That My Father Is Alive.’ China Faces Torrent of Online Pleas.
China is detaining vast numbers of Uighurs and other Muslims, and friends and relatives are making their names public to put pressure on Beijing.
Turkey Urges China to End Mass Detention of Muslims
The rare rebuke of the Chinese crackdown by a majority-Muslim country came after reports that a prominent Uighur folk poet had died in detention.
China Targets Prominent Uighur Intellectuals to Erase an Ethnic Identity
The mass detention of Uighur artists, journalists and scholars has become an alarming symbol of the Communist Party’s most intense social-engineering drive in decades.
China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor
Mounting evidence suggests ethnic minorities caught in the mass internment drive in Xinjiang are being assigned to new factories making clothes.
Acclaimed Photographer Arrested in Far West China, Wife Says
Lu Guang disappeared early last month while visiting the sensitive Xinjiang region where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are held in internment camps. Now the police have confirmed his arrest.
Lawmakers Push Trump to Act Against China on Uighur Detention
Legislators have introduced bipartisan bills that urge the Trump administration to impose economic sanctions and take other measures to defend Uighurs.
At U.N., China Defends Mass Detention of Uighur Muslims
The detainees are told they have an “ideological virus” and must be indoctrinated in devotion to the state. Western governments called for the practice to end.