China’s repressed Uighurs have long found sanctuary in Turkey. But as the country strengthens ties with China, the Uighurs feel their safe haven shrinking.
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An Arsenal Star Criticized China’s Detention Camps. Fury Soon Followed.
The soccer club distanced itself after Mesut Özil condemned China’s mass detention of Uighurs. But Chinese state media, and sports fans, were not mollified.
Facing Criticism Over Muslim Camps, China Says: What’s the Problem?
Chinese officials have released social media videos, blistering editorials and attacks on researchers in a push to counter evidence of its Muslim internment drive.
‘Publicity Gives Us Protection,’ Says Whistle-Blower in China Crackdown
Asiye Abdulaheb told a Dutch newspaper that she helped spread documents exposing China’s detentions of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.
China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West
Beijing’s pursuit of control over a Muslim ethnic group pushes the rules of science and raises questions about consent.
TikTok Reverses Ban on Teen Who Slammed China’s Muslim Crackdown
The video app said it would review its policies after a 17-year-old in New Jersey who discussed Chinese detention camps was locked out of her account.
TikTok Blocks Teen Who Posted About China’s Detention Camps
The app faced renewed questions about whether it censors material after it removed an American’s video about Muslims in China.
Leaked China Files Show Internment Camps Are Ruled by Secrecy and Spying
A secret document reflects leaders’ struggle to manage Xinjiang sites swelling with Muslim detainees.
China Defends Crackdown on Muslims, and Criticizes Times Article
The Foreign Ministry said an article based on government records had smeared China’s war on terrorism, but did not dispute the documents’ authenticity.
5 Takeaways From the Leaked Files on China’s Mass Detention of Muslims
Hundreds of pages of internal papers offer new insight into how the program began, how it was justified even as the damage it caused was clear, and how some officials resisted it.