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Why didn't Shohrat Zakir mention the numbers of Uighurs are being held in the “large internment camp” in East Turkistan?
Thanks to Indonesian people and response to Chinese embassy’s statement
On behalf of more than 3 million Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz brothers and sisters who are languishing in the concentration camps in East Turkestan, and their family members who can’t even talk about their loved ones, I thank Indonesian people who demonstrated against the Chinese concentration camps on December 21st.
China’s relentless persecution of its Muslim minority
Authoritarian regimes often persecute innocent people but cover their crime by denouncing their victims as “terrorists.” China is doing so on a massive scale as numerous reports indicate.
Spying On The Uyghurs: A First-Person Account From A Han Chinese Student
Initium Media editor’s note: In August, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reported that more than one million Uyghur people may be secretly imprisoned by the Chinese government in “re-education” camps in Xinjiang.
‘As If You’ve Spent Your Whole Life In Prison’: Starving And Subdued In Xinjiang Detention Centers
Gulbahar Jelil was told not to mention the stench and sickness that hounded her and pervaded her crowded cell. She was not to mention that 30 women were forced to share a 14-square-meter space. She was not to talk about their starvation diet, how detainees received only about 600 calories per day — equivalent to two or three plain bagels — and that she had lost close to 100 pounds over the course of her internment.
Award-winning Chinese photographer Lu Guang detained in Xinjiang, says wife
An award-winning photographer whose work exposed the lives of people on the margins of Chinese society has been taken away by security agents, his wife has said.
Will Trump Speak Up Against China’s Oppression?
As President Trump prepares to meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, at the G-20 gathering in Argentina this weekend, tough American tariffs and a broader bilateral trade relationship are at the top the agenda.