The Inside Story of the Xinjiang Concentration Camps: China Aid’s Exclusive Interview with Serikzhan Bilash
Later, a large number of people provided us with actual facts and information about the concentration camps in Xinjiang, and the government of Kazakhstan was outraged. Because they are under pressure from China and pressure from the West, if they arrest me, the West will not be happy. If they don’t, China will not be happy.
Whitewashing Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang with Winter Tourism
Human rights activists are worried that the CCP has been depicting Xinjiang as an attractive tourist destination to cover up their crackdown on human rights in the region. They strip local residents of their identity and voice by changing Xinjiang to a “Disney Land” and make visitors leave with the experience the country has planned elaborately.
US Student Invents Braille System for Visually Impaired Uyghurs
“I realized many languages of the world, including Uyghur, did not have a Braille script, and so I started searching the internet and contacting Uyghurs [about it],” he said. “Creating a Braille script for a language is important because not only does it empower the blind, but also it strengthens the use of their own language, even when minorities are in a very difficult situation.”
French Mural of Former Uyghur Detainee Spreads News of Chinese Abuses in Xinjiang
China has held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and others in the camps since 2017, while dismissing widely documented evidence of the internment program, including testimony from former detainees and guards describing widespread in interviews with RFA and other media outlets.
Uyghur Businessman, Philanthropist Confirmed Dead in Xinjiang’s Ghulja
Many of the Uyghur businessmen, intellectuals, and cultural and religious figures have been among the 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities believed to be held in a network of detention camps in Xinjiang since 2017. Beijing has said that the camps are vocational training centers and has denied widespread and documented allegations that it has mistreated Muslims living in Xinjiang.
First Foreign Nationals Evacuate China as the US Reportedly Mulls Ban on China Flights
<!–[CDATA[ VOA News The first evacuations of foreign nationals from China took place Wednesday as the U.S. reportedly considers banning all airline flights between the two countries. White House officials reportedly told U.S. airline executives at a meeting Tuesday the administration has not decided yet to impose a ban, but it is continuing to assess […]
Global Freedom Declines as Chinese, Russian Info Control Practices Spread, Says Study
Radio Free Asia Chinese and Russian technology and practices in surveillance, censorship and other forms of information control are spreading and being copied around the world, mostly in authoritarian states but also in some democracies, said a report released in Washington on Tuesday. Beijing and Moscow both have cultivated “technospheres” of countries that follow their […]
China Spiriting Uyghur Detainees Away From Xinjiang to Prisons in Inner Mongolia, Sichuan
Shohret Hoshur | Radio Free Asia Ethnic Uyghurs held in political “re-education camps” in northwest China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being sent to prisons in Inner Mongolia and Sichuan province, officials have confirmed, adding to the growing list of locations detainees are being secretly transferred to. In October last year, RFA’s Uyghur Service reported […]
Businesses in China’s Xinjiang Use Forced Labor Linked to Camp System
Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Some businesses in the northwestern region of Xinjiang are using forced labor at exploitative rates in connection with the mass incarceration of ethnic minority Muslims in camps, RFA has learned. Beginning in April 2017, Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” ideas […]
Students ordered to confiscate Kazakh, Uyghur language textbooks
ChinaAid Urumqi, Xinjiang— The department of education in Urumqi, the capital of China’s northwestern Xinjing Uyghur Autonomous Region, ordered all elementary and middle school students to turn in all books that are more than 10 years old and published in Kazakh, the native language of Kazakhstan’s often persecuted diaspora in China, on Monday. “The students […]