{"id":4784,"date":"2022-04-02T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T19:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2022\/04\/02\/uyghur-news-recap-march-24-30-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T19:22:41","slug":"uyghur-news-recap-march-24-30-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/uyghur-news-recap-march-24-30-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Uyghur News Recap: March 24-30, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hdr-container\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 47, 58); font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-right: -12px; margin-left: -12px;\">\n<div class=\"col-publishing-details col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-2 pull-left\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; 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touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(58, 121, 183); padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 234, 236);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">where the Chinese government is accused of using Uyghur forced labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\">Demand for solar energy could increase forced labor in China, report says<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\">As demand for solar energy increases, so does the risk of modern slavery in the solar energy sector, a&nbsp;<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/news\/solar-the-energy-of-freedom-or-a-driver-of-modern-slavery\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(58, 121, 183); padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 234, 236);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent analysis by the Rights Lab<\/a>&nbsp;at the University of Nottingham said. About 40% of polysilicon, a critical component of solar panels, comes from Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\">Uyghurs held in Saudi prison may risk deportation to China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\">Two Uyghur men arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia were transferred to a new prison&nbsp;<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/saudi-arabia-detainees-03252022164921.html\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(58, 121, 183); padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 234, 236);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from which Uyghurs have been deported<\/a>&nbsp;to China before, said the daughter of one of the detainees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\">Florida governor criticizes Disney for silence on China&#8217;s treatment of Uyghurs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\">After Disney opposed Florida&#8217;s Parental Rights in Education bill, state Governor Ron DeSantis accused the company of &#8220;actively&#8221;&nbsp;<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10665133\/Florida-Gov-Ron-DeSantis-slams-Disney-failing-condemn-Chinas-genocide-Uyghurs.html\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(58, 121, 183); padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 234, 236);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsing China&#8217;s mistreatment of Uyghurs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\">Police: Uyghur mother who fled forced abortion died in Chinese prison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\">A Uyghur woman sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2017 for escaping a forced abortion in 2014 in Xinjiang is dead. A Chinese police officer in Xinjiang told Radio Free Asia that she had&nbsp;<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/uyghur\/zeynebhan-memtimin-03292022165020.html\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(58, 121, 183); padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 234, 236);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died in prison in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Merriweather-Light, Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;\">Amnesty International: China continuing &#8216;reeducation camps&#8217; for Uyghurs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 24px;\">The Chinese government&#8217;s persecution of Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang continues in &#8220;reeducation camps,&#8221; Amnesty International said in a&nbsp;<a class=\"wsw__a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laprensalatina.com\/rights-declining-in-china-which-continues-persecuting-uyghurs-amnesty\/\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(58, 121, 183); padding-bottom: 0.05em; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(232, 234, 236);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human rights report<\/a>. 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