Pro-Beijing officials say a course that teaches critical thinking has created a generation of rebels. Students and teachers say it has made them more engaged with society.
Tag: Xinjiang (China)
Critic of China’s Detention Camps Is Free, but Silence May Be the Price
The terms of his plea deal could force Serikzhan Bilash, a Kazakh who campaigned for Muslims being held in Chinese indoctrination camps, to stop his work.
China Said It Closed Muslim Detention Camps. There’s Reason to Doubt That.
Seven days of reporting in the Xinjiang region undermine the government’s claim that it’s winding down its network of indoctrination centers. ‘Graduates’ are still being churned out.
Doubt Greets China’s Claim That Muslims Have Been Released From Camps
The announcement in Beijing was impossible to verify in tightly controlled Xinjiang, and runs counter to accounts of detentions compiled by U.S. officials and activists.
China’s Retort Over Its Mass Detentions: Praise From Russia and Saudi Arabia
After 22 countries deplored China’s treatment of Muslims in the Xinjiang region, 37 nations praised China’s “contribution to the international human rights cause.”
China Rebuked by 22 Nations Over Xinjiang Repression
In an embarrassment for China, 22 countries rejected its version of events in the Xinjiang region, where a million or more people are in detention centers.
A Muslim Family Sought Help at the Belgian Embassy in Beijing. The Police Dragged Them Out.
The Belgian Embassy is facing criticism after the forcible removal of the family, members of the Uighur minority group that China treats as a security threat.
Your Thursday Briefing
India’s decision and China’s virtual cage.
How China Uses High-Tech Surveillance to Subdue Minorities
China has turned the Xinjiang region in its far west into an incubator for automated authoritarianism that could spread across the country and beyond.
In Australia, Muslims Call for Pressure on China Over Missing Relatives
Members of the Uighur ethnic group want their adopted homeland to take action over China’s internment camps, into which many of their loved ones seem to have disappeared.