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Tag: Uighurs (Chinese Ethnic Group)

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With Pressure and Persuasion, China Deflects Criticism of Its Camps for Muslims

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019JANE PERLEZComments Off on With Pressure and Persuasion, China Deflects Criticism of Its Camps for Muslims

In the Muslim world, and in Washington and Europe, Beijing uses its economic clout and fears of Islamic radicalism to make its arguments.

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Critic Who Exposed China’s Muslim Camps is Detained, Even Across the Border

March 13, 2019AUSTIN RAMZYComments Off on Critic Who Exposed China’s Muslim Camps is Detained, Even Across the Border

Serikzhan Bilash, who was instrumental in documenting China’s vast detentions of Muslim minorities, now faces charges in Kazakhstan

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U.S. Steps Up Criticism of China for Detentions in Xinjiang

March 13, 2019NICK CUMMING-BRUCEComments Off on U.S. Steps Up Criticism of China for Detentions in Xinjiang

Western governments, academic experts and human rights supporters challenged Beijing over its mass detention of Muslims in China’s western region.

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Muslim Detention Camps Are Like ‘Boarding Schools,’ Chinese Official Says

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019CHRIS BUCKLEY and AMY QINComments Off on Muslim Detention Camps Are Like ‘Boarding Schools,’ Chinese Official Says

Officials also said that the indoctrination camps for Uighurs and other Muslims across Xinjiang had not held one million inmates, as reported, and that their numbers would shrink.

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U.N. Rights Chief, Denouncing ‘Gross Inequalities,’ Jabs at China and Israel

March 6, 2019NICK CUMMING-BRUCEComments Off on U.N. Rights Chief, Denouncing ‘Gross Inequalities,’ Jabs at China and Israel

Michelle Bachelet cited Beijing’s treatment of ethnic Uighurs and the blockade of Gaza as examples of harsh injustice across the world.

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He Needed a Job. China Gave Him One: Locking Up His Fellow Muslims.

March 2, 2019AUSTIN RAMZYComments Off on 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.

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China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise

February 21, 2019SUI-LEE WEEComments Off on 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.

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‘Show Me That My Father Is Alive.’ China Faces Torrent of Online Pleas.

February 17, 2019AUSTIN RAMZYComments Off on ‘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.

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Turkey Urges China to End Mass Detention of Muslims

February 10, 2019February 10, 2019AMY QINComments Off on 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.

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China Targets Prominent Uighur Intellectuals to Erase an Ethnic Identity

January 5, 2019AUSTIN RAMZYComments Off on 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.

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