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The Karakax list: how China targets Uighurs in Xinjiang

Source: FT Christian Shepherd in Karakax and Laura Pitel in Istanbul June 2016, Ruzunsa Memettohti, a Uighur Muslim who has lived in Turkey for two decades, called her younger sister Patem in Karakax, a county in the Chinese region of

New evidence for China’s Uighur prison system

Source: DW China has imprisoned as many as one million Uighurs – a Muslim minority based in the Xinjiang region in the northwest of the country. The Chinese authorities claim that the internment camps are vocational training centers set up

China asylum claims to Germany more than double

Source: INFOMIGRANT Asylum applications from China to Germany have more than doubled in just one year. Increasingly, people from the oppressed Uighur minority have been looking to Germany to escape Chinese oppression. The number of asylum seekers to Germany from