December 14, 2019

Source: ABC China’s government says it’s refashioning the camps it uses to detain Uyghur Muslims in the Western Province of Xinjian into training centres for farmers and herders. China has been under intense pressure to end the incarceration of what

Source: AXIOS Chinese recipients of World Bank loans tried to secure funding for the purchase of facial recognition technology for use in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang, according to documents obtained by Axios. Why it matters: The World Bank’s loan program

Source: OTTAWA CITIZEN Uyghurs have been sent to more than 1,300 camps in Xinjiang in western China without trial or any legal procedure, according to Adrian Zenz, European academic and expert on China’s ethnic policies. They endure endless hours of

Source: FOREIGN POLICY Employment: Yarkant County satellite factory [for] persons in detention or reeducation.” The spreadsheet, obtained from a cache of local government files, lists the employment status of nearly 2,000 Uighurs—but the 148 entries that carry this particular designation

Source: The Diplomat An unprecedented series of leaks of Chinese internal government documents highlights human rights abuses and possibly a crack in the façade of Xi Jinping’s power in China. The world since mid-November has seen an unprecedented series of

Source: China Digital Times Following months of reporting from news media and academic researchers on the extent and conditions of internment camps in Xinjiang, where up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been held for political indoctrination, forced labor, and forced cultural