“The heaviest thing for us was that we had to do it to our own people – our brothers & sisters"
Gulpiya Qazybek reveals how she was forced to help #Chinese gov't implement crackdown against #Kazakhs, #Uyghurs, other Muslim minorities. @Telegraph exclusive
https://t.co/9gH8ksMuVr
A record number of 51 countries present a letter at the United Nations condemning Beijing's policies in Xinjiang.
In 2022, 50 nations had signed.
Turkey & Somalia did not sign this time.
https://t.co/IDONZXSutX
Kasim Kashgar, a Uyghur exile, recollects the story of a recurring dream he has while in exile.
In a VOA documentary, Kashgar describes the creeping surveillance and persecution of his people in China's Xinjiang region.
Watch the full doc: https://t.co/10ezvMzIzT
NEW: Beijing still forces Uyghurs to pick cotton
Coercive labor is getting less visible but more intense.
Outlines key findings from (a) my new research article on cotton, and (b) from Xinjiang's new intensified labor transfer policy under Ma Xingrui. https://t.co/SAnP29IcrE
BREAKING: My new peer-reviewed research on Xinjiang's cotton shows even elderly Uyghurs forced to pick cotton or face "thought education", mechanized harvesting does not reduce forced Uyghur labor, and coerced picking continues despite Beijing's claims: 1/
https://t.co/hQPLq0z4r0
Care About What You Wear, Consume or Buy
Stay away from #madeInChina that made by #UyghurForcedLabour
Think about Uyghurs working 16 hours without returning home
European Parliament held fashion demonstration and
A model wearing traditional Uyghur dress made by @louisexin_
2 prison camp survivors recounted how #Uyghur women were subjected to sterilization, sexual abuse, electric shocks, and brainwashing in #China’s “re-education” camps during a hearing held by House Select Committee on the #CCP. https://t.co/ZCt5EQ1udK
Millions of Uyghurs are repeatedly silenced, detained, imprisoned, tortured & brainwashed by the Chinese government.
My bipartisan Uyghur Policy Act would empower the United States to support Uyghurs & counter Xi Jinping's genocidal campaign. #StopUyghurGenocide
The biggest nationwide display of discontent China has seen in a generation.
Protests against zero covid triggered by a deadly fire in Urumqi.
Ethnic Uyghur siblings cut off from their family for years say they lost 5 relatives in the fire
@bexwright1@JohnBerman@AC360
This is now on Wulumuqi (=Urumqi) lu in #Shanghai. People holding up white sheets of paper. ‘We don’t need to write anything on it. It is a symbol of the revolution of the people’, someone says. (Don’t manage to send videos.)
10 people killed, 9 injured in a fire in Xinjiang's capital
Most of Xinjiang has been under lockdown for >100 days
Video shows covid measures likely delayed firefighters from getting to the scene
Victims likely spent their last 3 months largely confined to that building @cnn
The fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, the last screams of the residents who were burned to death, other residents could only stand by the window to watch, because everyone was locked at home.
#TheGreatTranslationMovement
It snowed today in Urumchi, capital of Uyghur homeland. Many Uyghurs are being “quarantined” inside tents, not equipped with heating tools. They may die due to cold and starvation.