{"id":4252,"date":"2018-10-23T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/10\/23\/pak-turkeys-silence-uyghur-muslims-repression-china-outrageous-us\/"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T14:33:47","slug":"pak-turkeys-silence-uyghur-muslims-repression-china-outrageous-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/pak-turkeys-silence-uyghur-muslims-repression-china-outrageous-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak, Turkey&#8217;s silence on Uyghur Muslims&#8217; repression in China outrageous: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">It is outrageous that countries such as Pakistan, Turkey and Gulf states, who have led global efforts in support of the Rohingya refugees, have turned their back on the repression of&nbsp;<a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/uyghur\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); outline: 0px;\">Uyghur&nbsp;<\/a>Muslims in China, American lawmakers have said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;We ought to especially call out the&nbsp;<a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/search?type=news&amp;q=muslim+countries\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); outline: 0px;\">Muslim countries&nbsp;<\/a>that are saying nothing,&#8221; Congressman Brad Sherman said during a Congressional hearing Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-middle-banner\" data-google-query-id=\"CKzWg5PinN4CFc6OGAodblQAIw\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; height: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0pt; border-style: none;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"1\" id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6516239\/outofpage_1x1_desktop_0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6516239\/outofpage_1x1_desktop_0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: bottom;\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;Whether that be Turkey, Pakistan, the Gulf states, it is simply outrageous that they do so little to help the Rohingya and turn their back completely on Uyghurs,&#8221; Sherman said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Uyghurs &#8211; a Muslim minority group inside China &#8211; have been reportedly subject to increasing repression by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang autonomous region in the country&#8217;s northwest. Human Rights Watch says China is holding at least a million Uyghurs in &#8220;re-education camps&#8221; with the crackdown against the minority group growing since 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Sherman alleged that China is repressing its&nbsp;<a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/uyghur\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); outline: 0px;\">Uyghur&nbsp;<\/a>population on a massive scale. &#8220;The Chinese government has, as noted in a recent UN meeting, turned Xinjiang into something resembling a massive internment camp shrouded in secrecy, a sort of no rights zone.&#8221;<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 0px !important;\"><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: 0px !important;\">Testifying before a Congressional committee, Nury Turkel, chairman of the board of&nbsp;<a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/topic\/uyghur\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); outline: 0px;\">Uyghur&nbsp;<\/a>Human Rights Project, said Pakistan has had a horrible history collaborating with China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Turkel said Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim is the only Muslim leader to have recently expressed concern on the human rights violations of Uyghurs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;Pakistan has been very supportive of Chinese effort to silence the Pakistani-Uyghur citizens even,&#8221; Turkel alleged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;In Gulf states, particularly the UAE, Egypt has a horrible track record of deporting Uyghur students, which has been also reported by various media outlets. Malaysia, in a previous administration, has also deported some Uyghurs,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Congressman Ted Yoho alleged that the Chinese army brought Xinjiang into modern-day China in 1949 by invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;Today, the [Communist] Party is seeking to eliminate Xinjiang&#8217;s uniqueness using methods ripped straight from fiction. Authorities have turned the region into a high-tech-militarised police state using cutting-edge technology to subject normal people to pervasive surveillance, including A.I. facial and voice recognition and forced genetic sampling,&#8221; he alleged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Sherman said there are accounts of Uyghurs being sent back by Middle East countries in violation of&nbsp;<a class=\"storyTags\" href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/international\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(37, 145, 220); outline: 0px;\">international&nbsp;<\/a>obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Coming out in support of Uyghurs, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher alleged that the Chinese government was also behind the &#8220;slaughter of the Muslims&#8221; down in Myanmar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&#8220;We care about Muslim people in China. We care about them in Burma,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px !important; padding-top: 2px !important; padding-bottom: 2px !important; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-bottom: 12px !important;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Source: BUSINESS STANDARD<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is outrageous that countries such as Pakistan, Turkey and Gulf states, who have led global efforts in support of the Rohingya refugees, have turned their back on the repression&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}