Uyghurs / Uighurs
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Conflicts - Tensions
Calling Out Repression
FORUM Staff Forced labor of Uyghurs and other Indigenous minorities continues to fuel manufacturing in China’s Xinjiang region, according to a flurry of investigations, including a critical United Nations report. The research also reveals that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is largely acting through the state-run Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) to repress the ethnic groups. Although an increasing…
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CCP Shifts Oppression of Uyghurs from ‘Reeducation’ to Prison, Analysts Say
Radio Free Asia Two reports released by officials in Xinjiang — one by the region’s highest court, the other by a group of prosecutors — show the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) strategy for constraining the Uyghur population is shifting from so-called reeducation camps to prison. The reports, published in March 2022 on the official website of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous…
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Following historic protests, PRC loosens virus restrictions
Reuters The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is easing COVID-19 quarantine rules and reducing mass testing, a marked shift after anger over the world’s toughest curbs fueled unprecedented protests that included calls for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping to step down. Cases remain near record highs, but the changes came as some cities lifted their lockdowns and…
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U.N. says China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang
Reuters The People’s Republic of China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing United Nations human rights chief said in a long-awaited report in late August 2022. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, who has faced criticism from diplomats and rights groups for being too…
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