Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang

Scholars of Xinjiang documenting mass disappearances, cultural restrictions, & other policy.

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

@adrianzenz recommend assume products made in XJ as at risk of being affected by forced labor. Burden on Chinese companies to prove otherwise. If not, they should allow in external inspectors to ensure that forced labor is not part of our supply chains.

https://t.co/iy7ozY4WpE

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

@adrianzenz Companies able to profit from undercutting global prices on the back of these subsidies.

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

@adrianzenz: The enslavement of Uyghurs is being shrouded in the false guise of "poverty alleviation." Companies receive subsidy for each detainee they train or employ and for all products they create using that forced labor.

https://t.co/iy7ozY4WpE

[Michael Caster @michaelcaster]

@BBCWorld @uyghurproject @UyghurCongress @UNPOintl @XJscholars #China: "There are hundreds of #Uighur academics and professionals swept up into this mass internment campaign." @ScholarsAtRisk @PENamerica #Xinjiang

[Laura Murphy @LauraTMurphy]

China has "turned Xinjiang into a forced labor camp the size of California, Texas, and Arizona together.
...
Simply put, this is slavery."
-- Marco Rubio

@XJscholars @Freedom_Fund @kevin_bales

https://t.co/XgDrtOti0y

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

China is forcing Muslim detainees to work in textile and electronics factories attached to and near internment camps. We are buying these products without even knowing it. WATCH NOW: Senate hearing on how to respond. With @adrianzenz @nuryturkel

https://t.co/iy7ozY4WpE

[LUCIS @LUCISleidenuniv]

On Tuesday 15 October, 4 experts will discuss the current developments in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Join LUCIS for this unique panel discussion! @AndersonEliseM @MahmutRahima @shahitbiz @RianThum @KontovasNiko @Elena_Paskaleva #Uyghurs #Xinjiang #CentralAsia

[Timothy Grose @GroseTimothy]

Put “EATING HANNESS”: UYGHUR MUSICAL TRADITION IN A TIME OF RE-EDUCATION, an open access article by @dtbyler and amy anderson, on your must read list https://t.co/i9BfQwGj41

[Timothy Grose @GroseTimothy]

9/28/19 Konasheher “Patriotism that is forced is a false patriotism just as loyalty that is coerced is the very antithesis of loyalty"

[Maya Mitalipova @MayaMitalipova]

Professor Rahile Dawut, a world-renowned scholar of Uyghur studies, reportedly disappeared in China in December 2017. She is suspected of being held by state authorities at an undisclosed location. Take action to #FreeRahileDawut now! https://t.co/Nr7TyqOknf

[Laura Murphy @LauraTMurphy]

Interesting news that ThermoFisher has stopped selling genetic sequencing tech in Xinjiang, where minorities are subject to bioinformatics-based state terror. @XJscholars @ChinaFile @dtbyler

https://t.co/7aH7M7iR3m

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO: Shalkar Nukan was in a camp for over a year; now under house arrest. He arrived in China with a new passport obtained from the Chinese consulate in Almaty, but was detained bc the police only had a record of his old passport.

via @atajurt_kazak

https://t.co/Cyx0WBI2yb

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO TESTIMONY: Mukai Adilgazy was called to China in May 2017. He was detained at the border, and since then his family has had no news of him. His wife and two little daughters visit the Atajurt office almost everyday.

via @atajurt_kazak

https://t.co/BuFhTK57cY

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO TESTIMONY: After the publication of news about forced labor in Xinjiang, Razila Nural was released from a labor camp and put under house arrest. Her mother talked to her in early Jan, but now Razila is missing again.

via @atajurt_kazak

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO TESTIMONY: Iminjan Moidin's, Yasinjan, died in one of China's internment camps at age 44, cause unknown. Iminjan describes 8 other close relatives who are still in the camps, despite committing no crime, since late 2017.

via @atajurt_kazak

https://t.co/GaY19rEzPC

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO: Nurgazy Malikuly was imam of the only Kazakh mosque in Urumchi. He was a scholar & author. Though he was praised by Xi Jinping, he was detained in an internment camp for more than 1.5 years. In November he died in the camp.

from @atajurt_kazak

https://t.co/ekuLcyk8fK

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO TESTIMONY: Dilshat Oralbai is a journalist, translator & author. Bakhtgul Oralbai is a newspaper editor. Like many Uyghur and Kazakh intellectuals and journalists in Western China, they have both been sent to internment camps.

from @atajurt_kazak

https://t.co/4qXBeS34uZ

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO TESTIMONY: Askarbek Nabigaly is an imam who was awarded a state prize for his work against religious extremism. He met Chen Quanguo, Communist Party Secretary in Xinjiang Province. Now he is in a concentration camp.

from @atajurt_kazak

https://t.co/RnbG01yOQl

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO TESTIMONY: 13 year old Marmer Kiizatkyzy's father is in an internment camp; her mother is under house arrest. Her brother, Zhaisan Kiizatuly, got sick after the detention of his parents and died at the age of 22 in July 2018. From @atajurt_kazak

https://t.co/le2W4gwWQK

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

Seiituly's own personal testimony of his internment in Chinese camps can be read on the Xinjiang Victims Database.

https://t.co/rc8KtMYcsl

Supporting materials can also be found here:

https://t.co/tsUEJLHH3v

[Concerned Scholars of Xinjiang @XJscholars]

VIDEO: Amanzhan Seiituly was detained in an internment camp even though he was a citizen of Kazakhstan. Since his release, he has provided many eye-witness accounts of the camps. In this video, he testifies about the internment of his 26-year-old nephew.

https://t.co/sDRWQfilt4