Campaign for Uyghurs

Source: BitterWinter Last week, Arsenal’s football star Mesut Özil denounced the persecution of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in the dreaded transformation through education camps. The CCP not only threatened Arsenal to cancel its lucrative contracts with China, but invited Özil to visit the

Source: iNews Arsenal footballer Mesut Ozil’s social media post about the political situation in Xinjiang has prompted an angry response from the Chinese authorities. Ozil’s accusation that China is persecuting the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority has been dismissed by Beijing as “fake news”. Meanwhile,

Source: EURONEWS The Uyghur economist and human rights activist Ilham Tohti is this year’s Sakharov Prize winner for dedicating his life to the fight for the rights of China’s Muslim minority. In prison for the past 5 years, he won’t

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

Source: AFR A leading international Uighur activist is urging Australia and other western democracies to use trade to punish China over its human rights record, even if it comes at an economic cost, in a bid to force Beijing to end