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New UHRP briefing 👉🏽
Part 3⃣ in our 📹
#SurveillanceTech
series: "DJI’s Links to Human Rights Abuses in East Turkistan"
We examine the role of drone manufacturer
@DJIGlobal
in atrocities in the Uyghur region.
📓
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The youngest (15) & oldest (73) detainees:
This is what China is talking about when they talk about "re-education."
Full story via
@BBCWorld
:
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Just a tiny, tiny fraction of the Uyghurs disappeared into China's Orwellian social nightmare.
Don't reduce them to a number, they all matter.
#DayOfTheDisappeared
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As Xi Jinping landed in San Francisco, Uyghurs stood with Tibetans, Hong Kongers, Taiwanese, and Chinese human rights defenders to show him he’s not welcome.
Paid supporters of the 🇨🇳 government stood by in the background with empty expressions.
#StopUyghurGenocide
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The House overwhelmingly passes historic legislation to condemn gross human rights violations of Uyghurs and other ethnic Turkic Muslims, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China.
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US Congressman James McGovern (
@RepMcGovern
) on Chinese persecution of Uyghurs:
“There is no doubt what the Chinese government is trying to do. Stamp out the Uyghur identity.”
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"From August to December 2018, 45
@BitterWinterMag
’s contributors have been arrested in China...20 out of 45 are still held in custody in China. 18 are incarcerated in Xinjiang."
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🛬 PRESS RELEASE 🛬
"Uyghur camp survivor arrives safely in the United States"
Tursunay Ziyawudun, one of only a handful of
#Uyghur
concentration camp survivors known to have reached the outside world, has arrived safely in the United States.
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🗣️ June 15th is
#UyghurLanguageDay
🗣️
All of us at the
@UyghurProject
celebrate the beauty of the
#Uyghur
language, and continue to promote it abroad.
As the Chinese govt attempts to eliminate the language altogether, we must stand firm to ensure it lives on.
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"U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement that the files revealed “shocking details of China’s human rights violations” against [Uyghurs]."
The rest of the world has an obligation to demand answers about these cases alongside 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇬🇧.
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Tomomi's (
@swim_shu
) work captures suffering, but also the resilience & bravery of Uyghurs in the diaspora.
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Celebrate
#UyghurDoppa
Day with
@UyghurProject
!
🙌🏽 Use the hashtag
#UyghurDoppa
, wear it proudly, and tell us what it means to you 🙌🏽
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Uyghurs
#StandWithHongKong
.
The treatment of
#Uyghurs
is directly connected w/ China's harsh approach to
#HongKong
,
#Tibet
, Chinese human rights defenders for years.
Our solidarity will be crucial in the years of struggle ahead.
(Thanks to
@TheTibetNetwork
for the images)
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It's out.
The High Commissioner releases her
@UNHumanRights
report on the Uyghur situation 10 minutes before the end of her term.
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"The Uighur Tribunal’s work gets underway now, and once it has delivered its judgement, and if it does end up concluding genocide or crimes against humanity have occurred, there will be no more excuses,"
@benedictrogers
writes.
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"There were many people in those cells who lost their minds."
A Uyghur survivor told the BBC that she witnessed a system of organised rape inside the internment camps where she was detained.
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China is committing genocide against Uyghurs.
Tell the
@UN
that China doesn't deserve a Human Rights Council seat & to vote against their re-election next week.
#VoteNoChina
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“Azna mosque … was demolished last year [...] They brought machinery in for the demolition.”
China's euphemistic "Mosque Rectification" program has led to the destruction of countless mosques in the Uyghur Region.
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The UN Human Rights Chief,
@mbachelet
, was presented with a book of speeches by Xi Jinping "on respecting and protecting human rights."
Nothing coming out of the Chinese government has any credibility on human rights.
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In every communication with Chinese officials, states have an obligation to demand that China halt its genocidal campaign against Uyghurs.
Silence equals tacit support.
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How will the world respond?
The US government has declared that China's treatment of Uyghurs & other Turkic peoples constitutes genocide.
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BREAKING ➡️➡️➡️
"UN Confirms Conclusive Evidence of Atrocities Against Uyghurs"
Joint statement from 60 Uyghur organizations in response to UN report citing possible crimes against humanity against Uyghurs.
@UyghurProject
@UyghurCongress
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📢 NEW UHRP REPORT 📢
"Islam Dispossessed: China’s Persecution of Uyghur Imams and Religious Figures"
@UyghurProject
has compiled 1,046 cases of Uyghur imams & religious figures detained or imprisoned since around 2015.
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Uyghurs have gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on PRC National Day to call for an end to the Uyghur genocide.
@UyghurProject
@Uyghur_American
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The
@UyghurProject
and Uyghurs around the world stand in solidarity with the people of Tibet!
#TibetanUprisingDay
✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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"...both for HK – and indeed for Xinjiang – Britain must implement Magnitsky-style sanctions and apply them to officials perpetrating or complicit in torture and other human rights abuses, whether they are the Chinese or HK authorities."
@benedictrogers
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📢 JOINT STATEMENT 📢
#VoteNoChina
: 70 Uyghur organizations call governments to vote against China’s election to
@UNHumanRights
Council
@UyghurProject
&
@UyghurCongress
lead Uyghur orgs globally pushing back against China at the
@UN
.
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"We must never act as if their fates do not matter, and we must never pretend that we cannot do anything about it."
@UyghurProject
intern
@_liamjscott_
on our collective responsibility to respond to China's treatment of Uyghurs.
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Jiang said he and other officers would “kick them, beat them (until they’re) bruised and swollen” and “until they kneel on the floor crying."
Mountains of evidence continues to pour out of the Uyghur region about ongoing atrocities.
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"We cannot pretend this isn’t happening – the UK government must stand w/ Uyghur people & all those detained in China."
Join
@CSW_UK
to call on UK MPs to:
- Write to
@DominicRaab
to raise the Uyghur issue w/ China
- Submit a parliamentary question
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Here we go again.
China is up for reelection at the 🇺🇳 Human Rights Council in October—running effectively unopposed.
@UNHumanRights
has said that China may be committing crimes against humanity.
#VoteNoChina
#HRCelections2023
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BREAKING ➡️➡️➡️
🇨🇦 Canadian Parliament unanimously passes motion calling on 🏛️ govt to "urgently leverage" refugee resettlement program to expedite entry of 10,000 Uyghurs & other Turkic Muslims in need of protection to Canada.
Congrats to
@SameerZuberi
!
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New UHRP report 👉🏽
"Twenty Years for Learning the Quran: Uyghur Women and Religious Persecution"
We examine denial of freedom of religion, detention of religious figures (91 in a single county) + criminalization of children’s religious socialization.
📓
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Rare new testimony from inside China's concentration camps for Uyghurs, recorded on Christmas Day. A short section below has English subtitles. The Uyghur original is here:
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New UHRP report ⬇️⬇️⬇️
"Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriages in East Turkistan"
We examine the 🇨🇳 government's role promoting, incentivizing, and coercing interethnic marriage between Uyghur women & Han men.
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Members of the
#Uyghur
community in the United States protest in front of the Capitol.
#GlobalDayAction
#ResistCCP
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Lithuania has voted to call the treatment of Uyghurs genocide.
The parliament also voted "to call for a U.N. investigation of internment camps and to ask the European Commission to review relations with Beijing."
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Celebrate
#UyghurDoppa
Day with
@UyghurProject
!
Join
@Omerkanat1
,
@AndersonEliseM
,
@LouisaCGreve
&
@Mustafacan_Aksu
in celebrating this distinctive aspect of Uyghur culture on May 5th.
🙌🏽 Use the hashtag
#UyghurDoppa
, wear it proudly, and tell us what it means to you 🙌🏽
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Today is 🇺🇳
#WorldHeritageDay
A day when
@UNESCO
promotes cultural heritage, and efforts to protect and conserve it.
China 🇨🇳 has destroyed thousands of Uyghur 🕌mosques, shrines, and 🪦 graveyards.
What steps will
@UNESCO
take to respond to this documented destruction?
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➡️➡️➡️ ICYMI: Genocide resolution passes US House
UHRP hails passage of a landmark resolution condemning the "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity" against the Uyghurs.
"This resolution gives Uyghurs hope," says Omer Kanat.
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#SupportUyghurs
this
#Ramadan
!
The
@UyghurProject
depends on your support more than ever this year:
🚨 Uyghur mosques destroyed en masse
🚨 Uyghur imams locked up
🚨 Uyghur identity is gravely threatened
Donate:
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This
#Ramadan
—Help Resettle 10,000 Uyghur Refugees in 🇨🇦 Canada 👇🏽
We've partnered with
@UyghurCongress
&
@UyghurAdvocacy
to support implementation of Canada's historic motion to resettle Uyghur refugees.
Donate via
@LaunchGood
:
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“The women in Xinjiang are in danger,” said Gulnar Omirzakh. “The government wants to replace our people.”
In East Turkistan, women are being stripped of the ability to birth children.
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✉️ JOINT OPEN LETTER ✉️
We join 22 genocide prevention orgs re: grave concerns for Uyghurs, call for
@UN
Commission of Inquiry.
“These measures meet the threshold of acts constitutive of genocide, core international crimes under the Genocide Convention.”
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"So long as the Chinese government is running internment camps & forced labor programs in Xinjiang, no company should have a factory or a subsidiary there. Period."
Report reveals almost entire global solar industry implicated in Uyghur forced labour.
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China's Actions in Xinjiang May Amount to 'Crimes Against Humanity', Says US Rights Report
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"I couldn't get out of bed for five months. I couldn't fall asleep. My daughter saw me crying every day."
Qelbinur Sedik says Chinese authorities forcibly sterilised her against her will.
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@Rachel_A_Harris
@UHRP_Chinese
We also found many cases involving egregious retroactive sentencing 👇🏼
🚨 Ezizgul Memet was charged for "illegally studying scripture" for three days in 1976 + sentenced to 10 years
Charged for studying the Quran nearly *50 years* ago.
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"When you're dealing w/ a concerted campaign centered on cultural erasure, one of the most important things we can do is continue to pay attention."
John Oliver (
@IAmJohnOliver
) features the Uyghur crisis on
@LastWeekTonight
.
Share this & please keep paying attention.
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"We will not be sending any diplomatic representation to the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games," says
@JustinTrudeau
.
Canada commits to a diplomatic boycott of
@Beijing2022
.
Who's next... 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇯🇵
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🗣️ February 21 is
#MotherLanguageDay
🗣️
In June, we celebrated
#UyghurLanguageDay
, so
@UyghurProject
celebrates the beauty of the
#Uyghur
language, on a day for the recognition of the importance of all languages.
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"It’s not just about outrage anymore. It’s about action."
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN
@NikkiHaley
remarks ahead of the
@UyghurProject
&
@Uyghur_American
demonstration this afternoon.
Join us at the Lincoln Memorial on
@TheNationalMall
from 2–4pm!
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The
@UyghurProject
is in San Francisco anticipating the arrival of Xi Jinping with
@Uyghur_American
👇🏽
🪧
🪧
🪧
Xi Jinping is responsible for genocide and crimes against humanity—governments *must* hold him accountable.
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A shameful result—but we will continue to fight.
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🙌🏽 Celebrate
#UyghurLanguageDay
with UHRP 🙌🏽
All of us at
@UyghurProject
celebrate the beauty of the
#Uyghur
language, and continue to promote it abroad.
As the Chinese government tries to eliminate the language altogether, we will work to ensure it lives on.
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In addition to genocide motion, Lithuania called on the
@UN
to begin “a legal inquiry into the Uyghur genocide in [the] Xinjiang detention camps.”
🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹
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BREAKING ➡️➡️➡️
Joint Statement from 5️⃣0️⃣ governments at the
@UN
#ThirdCommittee
#3C
on the Uyghur issue.
"In view of the gravity of this assessment, we are concerned that China has so far refused to discuss its findings," reads
@BobRae48
for
@CanadaUN
.
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The UK Foreign Affairs Committee
@CommonsForeign
has launched a new inquiry into China's mass internment of Uyghurs.
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📰 PRESS RELEASE 📰
A historic day for Uyghurs!
U.S. House passes Uyghur Human Rights Act of 2020 (S.3744) to hold Chinese officials accountable for gross rights abuses.
The bill will be sent to
@POTUS
(
@RealDonaldTrump
) for signature.
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In addition to genocide motion, Lithuania called on the
@UN
to begin “a legal inquiry into the Uyghur genocide in [the] Xinjiang detention camps.”
🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹
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"They wouldn't give the baby to the parents — they kill the babies when they're born," Uyghur doctor Hasiyet Abdulla said.
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"She deserves so much better than this."
Marhaba Yakub speaks out for her sister, Mahira Yakub, indicted in January for “giving material support to terrorist activity” for transferring money to her parents in Australia.
Support
@Amnesty
's
#UrgentAction
:
An Australian woman hopes someone can save her sister, a Uighur Muslim living in China, who was charged with terrorism after transferring money to her parents to help them buy a house.
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BREAKING 👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼
Netherlands will not send diplomats to the
@Beijing2022
@Olympics
.
The 🇳🇱 govt said it would have sent diplomats to discuss their concern about the human rights situation, but Covid concerns would not allow for meaningful dialogue.
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China 🇨🇳 is up for reelection at the 🇺🇳 Human Rights Council in October—running unopposed.
@UNHumanRights
has said China may be committing crimes against humanity.
Until the election, we will be reminding 🏛️ governments to
#VoteNoChina
at the
#HRCelections2023
.
Join us.
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Uyghurs targeted for "listening to "illegal lectures" or not using their phones enough, which is regarded as a sign the user is trying to evade digital surveillance."
Not using one's phone enough could get you arrested.
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“Pakistan is no longer a safe haven for [Uyghurs].... Police are now deporting Uyghurs back to China.”
Under pressure from the Chinese government, Pakistan extradites Uyghurs back to East Turkistan.
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Members of the
#Uyghur
community in the United States protest in front of the Capitol.
#GlobalDayAction
#ResistCCP
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Countless Uyghurs, Tibetans, Chinese, Southern Mongolians, Hong Kongers & Kazakhs are detained for absolutely nothing.
Let's call for their immediate release this
#HumanRightsDay
.
(Thanks to
@TheTibetNetwork
for the video)
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"Kishida [...] voiced 'serious concern' over the human rights situation in [the Uyghur region]"
🇯🇵 should continue to support Uyghurs as China continues to commit atrocities.
@kishida230
@MofaJapan_en
@MofaJapan_jp
@arimoto_kaori
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Pope Francis can no longer be silent on Uyghur genocide.
"It is the first time so many [faith leaders have spoken out] with such unity, urgency and in such numbers across faith communities," says
@BenedictRogers
.
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Tomomi Shimizu (
@swim_shu
), a Japanese artist, produces
comics highlighting "everyday suffering" of the Uyghur people.
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“A 7-month investigation [...] found that China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts....”
Tens of thousands of fake Chinese accounts help spread Chinese propaganda across Twitter.
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This
#Ramadan
,
#SupportUyghurs
🙏🏼
Help
@UyghurProject
:
1️⃣ Expose China's atrocities
2️⃣ Support Uyghurs abroad
3️⃣ Urge governments to take action
Donate via
@LaunchGood
:
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"So long as the Chinese government is running internment camps & forced labor programs in Xinjiang, no company should have a factory or a subsidiary there. Period."
Report reveals almost entire global solar industry implicated in Uyghur forced labour.
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In addition to genocide motion, Lithuania called on the
@UN
to begin “a legal inquiry into the Uyghur genocide in [the] Xinjiang detention camps.”
🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹
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Urgent 🚨🚨🚨
"Abuduwaili Abudureheman has not been heard from since he sent a text message to a friend on May 10."
The 🇭🇰 government must immediately reveal the whereabouts and fate of the Uyghur student.
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Human Rights Council elections are today.
States with concentration camps should not be on the
@UN
Human Rights Council.
Simple, right?
#VoteNoChina
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Our response to
@TheEconomist
on rejecting "genocide" to apply to Uyghurs.
"If history has taught us one thing, it is that the world is slow to react to horrors like this in part because we allow the debate about labels to eclipse the debate about what must be done to stop it."
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"Maybe if enough companies cease doing business in Xinjiang, China will decide it is to its benefit to cease its mistreatment of Uighurs."
Companies must cut ties with
#Uyghur
forced labor in order to combat the genocide.
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📢 Uyghur forced labor bill passes U.S. House 📢
"Uyghurs hail action by U.S. Congress on China’s forced labor, worst since WWII"
With overwhelming support, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act passes the U.S. House of Representatives.
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This is Chen Quanguo.
Four years ago today Chen became Party Secretary for the Uyghur Region.
Uyghurs have suffered some of the most brutal, inhuman, repressive policies on Earth since then.
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🚨🚨🚨 At least two Uyghurs, a mother and her young daughter, are at immediate risk of deportation to China from Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is sending Uyghur woman Hadiche and her 13-year old daughter to Riyadh, where they’d be deported to China, and where they face torture and arbitrary detention. They’re in a police car now. They’re the wife and daughter of Nurmemet, see:
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"[A]fter she died, authorities told the family members to remain silent about it.”
The niece of Abduweli Ayup, Mihray Erkin, died in detention back in 2020.
She held a degree in plant biotechnology, and completed a master’s degree at Tokyo University.
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"We can no longer kid ourselves that Beijing is on the verge of honouring labor rights, while it continues to build millions of square feet of factories for forced labor in Xinjiang."
The EU-China investment deal will not improve China's labor standards.
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➡️➡️➡️ Sources indicate 🇸🇦 will soon deport two Uyghurs:
Abula Buheliqiemu and her 13-year old daughter may be scheduled for deportation to Guangzhou on a flight leaving at 2:05 a.m. local time from Riyadh.
Still no news on the fate of Rozi and Abduweli.
[Please share widely]
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🕯️
@UyghurProject
remembers
#Tiananmen
🕯️
From all of us at UHRP:
We recall China's brutal 1989 crackdown and call on the intl community to address ongoing repression against Chinese rights defenders, Uyghurs, Tibetans & many others.
#TiananmenVigil
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Live from Capitol Hill in DC ahead of the
#GenocideGames
,
@VoCommunism
open remarks a day before
@Beijing2022
begins.
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"U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement that the files revealed “shocking details of China’s human rights violations” against [Uyghurs]."
The rest of the world has an obligation to demand answers about these cases alongside 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇬🇧.
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The Uyghur Human Rights Project marked the 23rd anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre yesterday, organising a demo at the Chinese embassy in Washington.
Non-violent protests against religious repression & ethnic discrimination were harshly suppressed in February 1997.
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"The guards would stick their fingers in your mouth to make sure you swallowed the pills."
Gulzira Auelkhan believes authorities gave women pills as part of a forced sterilization strategy.
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Imprisoned unjustly for 17 years.
Uyghur-Canadian Huseyin Celil was arrested in 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan in 2006, illegally deported to China, and sentenced to death (later commuted to life in prison, then to 20 years).
The 🇨🇦 Canadian government MUST demand his immediate release.
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📰 NEWS RELEASE 📰
"New report documents the complicity of Pakistan & Afghanistan in China’s transnational repression of Uyghurs"
@UyghurProject
&
@OxusSociety
just released a new report detailing the China-Pakistan relationship & its impact on Uyghurs.
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Watch as 🇨🇳 China BLOCKS Uyghurs at 🇺🇳
@UN
➡️➡️➡️
Three times at
#UNFMI
, Chinese delegation interrupts
@UyghurProject
@UyghurCongress
representative
@ZubayraZubeyre
as she speaks about atrocities targeting Uyghurs.
Uyghurs must be able to 🗣️ speak.
@UNHumanRights
@fernanddev
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"He’s done nothing wrong other than sharing that song."
Officials in the
#Uyghur
Region have sentenced a young Kazakh wrestler to 15 years in prison for sharing a Kazakh song on social media.
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“...after a survey of 900 Xinjiang locations, 16,000 mosques had been partially or completely destroyed over the previous three years.”
A devastating amount of mosques have been destroyed or are threatened by the CCP.
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Australia has called for a United Nations investigation into human rights abuses targeting Uyghurs.
The rest of the international community needs to step up as well.
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“Those of us who left know that China is brainwashing, so they don’t want [Uyghurs] to go to the free world.”
Meryem Sultan speaks about her struggle outside China simply connecting with family members.
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🚨 NEW
@UyghurProject
REPORT 🚨
"No Space Left to Run: China's Transnational Repression of
#Uyghurs
"
With
@OxusSociety
, we compile & examine 1,546 detentions & deportations of Uyghurs from 1997–2021, showing expanding scale of global repression by 🇨🇳.
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Check out our full database ➡️ ➡️ ➡️
We document 312 cases of disappeared Uyghur intellectuals in our new briefing.
This persecution constitutes eliticide & a significant component of genocide.
❌ Scholars
❌ Professors
❌ Poets
❌ Musicians
❌ Doctors
❌ Writers
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