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Former residents of Xinjiang said movement restrictions are enforced in a discriminatory manner. Interviewees said the police stopped only ethnic minorities on the street and checked their ID. #FreeUyghurs #FreeTheAseer 
Witnesses, including one who worked at a government checkpoint, reported that Han Chinese either did not need to go through the checkpoints at all or were essentially waved through without having their bodies or phones searched and without being questioned.
Yin, a Han Chinese person who visited Xinjiang, told Amnesty about the discrimination they witnessed while travelling:
"The surveillance cameras are literally everywhere… The discrimination is so blatant. When I boarded a train, they didn’t check anything,
"The surveillance cameras are literally everywhere… The discrimination is so blatant. When I boarded a train, they didn’t check anything,
Muslims living in Xinjiang may be the most closely surveilled population in the world. The government of China has devoted tremendous resources to gathering incredibly detailed information about this group’s lives. #FreeUyghurs #FreeTheAseer
This systemized mass surveillance is achieved through a combination of policies and practices that infringe on people’s rights to privacy and freedom of movement and expression.
According to former residents of Xinjiang, the system of surveillance involves extensive, invasive in-person and electronic monitoring in the form of:
- biometric data collection, including iris scans and facial imagery;
- invasive interviews by government officials;
- biometric data collection, including iris scans and facial imagery;
- invasive interviews by government officials;
Mansur, a Uyghur farmer, described to Amnesty how he was tortured multiple times in two camps during his time in detention – both during an interrogation and during multiple punishment sessions. #FreeUyghurs #FreeTheAseer
He described his interrogation session:
He described his interrogation session:
"Two guards took me from the cell and dropped me off [at the room where I was interrogated]. Two men were inside… [They asked what I did in Kazakhstan,] ‘Did you pray there? What do your parents do?’
I said I only stayed with family, that I took care of livestock, and that I didn’t do anything illegal… they asked me about mosque and praying… If I told them I had been praying, I had heard that I would get sentenced for 20 or 25 years. So I told them I never prayed.
Communists always cry about religion controlling people, but remain silent on what the Chinese Communist Party has been doing to the Uyghurs. #FreeUyghurs #FreeTheAseer
Uyghur detainees are required to look straight ahead and not to speak with their classmates in these camps.
Uyghur detainees are required to look straight ahead and not to speak with their classmates in these camps.
Classes often involve memorizing and reciting “red” songs – that is, revolutionary songs that praise the CCP and the People’s Republic of China.
Teaching Chinese is a primary objective of the “education” that detainees received in the camps.
Teaching Chinese is a primary objective of the “education” that detainees received in the camps.
In addition to language classes, most former detainees reported attending some combination of history, law, and ideology classes or, as many former detainees referred to it, “political education”.
Many Uyghurs said the reasons they were given for their detention were not tied to specific acts; rather, they were informed that they were detained because they were classified as “suspicious” or “untrustworthy” or as a “terrorist” or an “extremist”. #FreeUyghurs #FreeTheAseer.
When specific acts were mentioned, they generally fell into a few broad categories.
One category includes offences related to foreign countries. Numerous former detainees were sent to camps for living, travelling, or studying abroad or for communicating with people abroad.
One category includes offences related to foreign countries. Numerous former detainees were sent to camps for living, travelling, or studying abroad or for communicating with people abroad.
Many were even detained simply for being “connected” with people who lived, travelled, studied, or communicated with people abroad.
Another category includes those detained for offences related to using unauthorized software or digital communications technology.
Another category includes those detained for offences related to using unauthorized software or digital communications technology.
Abuduwaili Abudureheman has not been heard from since he sent a text message to a friend on 10 May. In the message, Abudureheman said he was being interrogated by Chinese police after arriving at Hong Kong airport. #FreeUyghurs #UyghurGenocide #FreeTheAseer
“The unknown fate of Abuduwaili Abudureheman is deeply worrying, given the background of crimes against humanity committed against Uyghurs by the Chinese government in Xinjiang,” says Alkan Akad, Amnesty International’s China Researcher.
A Uyghur student who has been missing since he arrived in the city from South Korea earlier this month, amid fears he has been unlawfully extradited to mainland China without due process and is at risk of arbitrary detention and torture, Amnesty International said yesterday.
Elisha Weisel, head of the Elie Weisel Foundation, opens this hearing of @committeeonccp:
“We say never again. But genocide is in fact happening again. And it is happening on our watch.”
#FreeUyghurs
“We say never again. But genocide is in fact happening again. And it is happening on our watch.”
#FreeUyghurs
Committee ranking Democrat @CongressmanRaja: “This evening let’s make sure the leaders of the CCP hear us loud and clear. Their genocide must end.”
He brought @RushanAbbas founder of @CUyghurs to the State of the Union address as his guest,
#freeuyghur
He brought @RushanAbbas founder of @CUyghurs to the State of the Union address as his guest,
#freeuyghur
Concentration camp survivors Ms. Gulbahar Haitiwaji and Ms. Qelbinur Sidik testified about being arrested for no reason, tortured, indoctrinated, mistreated and now threatened that their family will suffer if they speak out. @committeeonccp #UyghurGenocide
"Beijing’s latest, horrible abuse of the Tibetan people is to forcibly collect their DNA, their last remaining vestige of privacy. What’s worse, U.S. companies are still working with the authorities perpetrating these atrocities..."
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The Chinese government is leveraging technology, including artificial intelligence and big data, to identify people by their faces, their voices, their individual styles of walking and, now, even their cellular makeup...
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Tibetan government-in-exile former President @Drlobsangsangay: “This is a dark side of AI surveillance for the use of genealogical repression.”
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Pendant que nos familles et nos amis subissent dans leur chair des déportations dans des camps, des crimes contre l’humanité et un génocide, la gauche française (@PCF et LFI) déroule le tapis rouge à nos bourreaux la @FetedelHumanite.
Si vous saviez à quel point j’ai honte. 🧶
Si vous saviez à quel point j’ai honte. 🧶
1/6 : Aujourd’hui, nous sommes allées avec la rescapée des camps Gulbahar Jalilova à la @FetedelHumanite pour dénoncer ce scandale.
Oú étaient les dirigeants de la gauche? Ou étaient les militants « humanistes » et « anticoloniaux » ce week-end?
Pas à nos côtés.
Oú étaient les dirigeants de la gauche? Ou étaient les militants « humanistes » et « anticoloniaux » ce week-end?
Pas à nos côtés.
2/6: Imaginez 2min s’il y avait eu un stand de l’ambassade d’Arabie Saoudite? Tous les militants de gauche l’auraient dénoncé, à juste titre.
Mais quand c’est le régime chinois – qui commet des crimes contre l’humanité et organise actuellement la famine des Ouïghours – ça passe
Mais quand c’est le régime chinois – qui commet des crimes contre l’humanité et organise actuellement la famine des Ouïghours – ça passe
New: The U.N. finally calls out China’s atrocities. So where’s U.S. action? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… by me @PostOpinions
@PostOpinions The damning findings are shocking — but they should come as no surprise, considering the world has known about these abuses for years. So why isn’t the U.S. government doing more to stop them?
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@PostOpinions “Now that the leading U.N. office on human rights has spoken, there are no more excuses for the failure to hold the Chinese government accountable,” said @EIltebir, president of the Uyghur American Association.
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Just now: A Mandarin-speaking man attacked a Hong Kong student at @Cornell for putting up posters supporting freedom of #HongKong and #Uyghurs. This man's action & any kind of Chinese aggression against #Hongkongers should never be acceptable. Here's what happened:
Around 18:30, as a Cornell student was putting "#FreeHongKong" & "#FreeUyghurs" posters up in Ithanca Commons near Cornell, a man approached to threaten him in Mandarin. The student immediately recorded the scene with his phone. (2/) @SPEAL_Cornell
The man then pushed him to the ground and tried to snatch his phone away, leaving wounds on his hand. The assault only ended as another passerby interrupted. (3/) @SPEAL_Cornell @students4hk
1/8 Elle s’appelait Mihriay Erkin.
Elle avait 29 ans.
Elle était Ouïghoure.
Elle est morte dans l’un des plus grands camps de concentration du Xinjiang.
Elle avait 29 ans.
Elle était Ouïghoure.
Elle est morte dans l’un des plus grands camps de concentration du Xinjiang.
2/8 @libe a reconstitué son histoire.
Nous sommes le 18 juin 2019, Mihriay, brillante étudiante-chercheuse au prestigieux institut Nara au Japon, s’apprête à prendre l’avion pour rentrer voir sa famille en Chine.
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Nous sommes le 18 juin 2019, Mihriay, brillante étudiante-chercheuse au prestigieux institut Nara au Japon, s’apprête à prendre l’avion pour rentrer voir sa famille en Chine.
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3/8 Elle est parfaitement consciente des risques. Mais sa mère l’a supplié.
Par SMS, de l’aéroport, elle écrit à son oncle Abduweli Ayup, linguiste renommé vivant en Norvège : «Chacun de nous mourra seul. L’amour de Dieu, notre sourire et notre peur nous accompagnent.»
Par SMS, de l’aéroport, elle écrit à son oncle Abduweli Ayup, linguiste renommé vivant en Norvège : «Chacun de nous mourra seul. L’amour de Dieu, notre sourire et notre peur nous accompagnent.»
Let’s cut the BS - Punjab is facing annihilation.
Not from the Hindoos, not from Godi media, not from the chaiwala, not from Gujarati kutte Ambani Adani, not from non-Jats.
But from a depleted water table caused by the current farming methods & incentives.
Not from the Hindoos, not from Godi media, not from the chaiwala, not from Gujarati kutte Ambani Adani, not from non-Jats.
But from a depleted water table caused by the current farming methods & incentives.
Punjab faces annihilation via desertification.
The images below show the dire need of reform in Punjab & the adjacent areas - yes the areas where protests are massively derived from.
Unequal MSP allotment and addiction will destroy the land if things remain.
The images below show the dire need of reform in Punjab & the adjacent areas - yes the areas where protests are massively derived from.
Unequal MSP allotment and addiction will destroy the land if things remain.
But wait, what if we just double down on MSP to higher rates or to all crops?
Good luck with the inflation that will whiplash to the common man as the gov rots in a massive deficit.
& the water table will get worse, furthering the speed of annihilation of a beautiful Punjab.
Good luck with the inflation that will whiplash to the common man as the gov rots in a massive deficit.
& the water table will get worse, furthering the speed of annihilation of a beautiful Punjab.
"Against Beijing and Washington, for International Workers’ Solidarity"
Please join me and sign this! #FreeUyghurs #FreeHongKong #FreeTibet #WorkersRights #HumanRights #WorkersSolidarity
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Please join me and sign this! #FreeUyghurs #FreeHongKong #FreeTibet #WorkersRights #HumanRights #WorkersSolidarity
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Initial signatories include @uksolidaritywi1, @CampaignUyghur, @lausanhk, @workersliberty, @AC_Resist, @HDPenglish MPs @hisyarozsoy, @Feleknasuca, and @glstnkocyigit; @UKLabour MPs @labourlewis and @NadiaWhittomeMP; @julie4north, @dibyeshanand, and many more!
Translated here: uyghursolidarityuk.org/ch-version-ope…
APPLE is one of many giant corporations with supply chains linked to the Chinese state's Uyghur forced labour schemes.
Join the protest from home 2pm Tuesday 14/4! Contact Apple by phone, twitter & insta to demand an end to #AppleForcedLabour.
Stand in solidarity: #FreeUyghurs!
Join the protest from home 2pm Tuesday 14/4! Contact Apple by phone, twitter & insta to demand an end to #AppleForcedLabour.
Stand in solidarity: #FreeUyghurs!
Please share this 👆 far & wide! Next Tuesday, let's flood their phone lines and social media with the call to cut ties with forced labour.
And remember - it's Apple's bosses who are responsible, not call centre workers, so please be polite!
#AppleForcedLabour #FreeUyghurs
And remember - it's Apple's bosses who are responsible, not call centre workers, so please be polite!
#AppleForcedLabour #FreeUyghurs
The labour programmes coercively transfer members of the persecuted Uyghur minority to factories across China.
These include O-Film, #Foxconn, Dongguan Yidong Electronics & Highbroad - all connected to Apple's supply chain: aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs… #appleforcedlabour #freeuyghurs
These include O-Film, #Foxconn, Dongguan Yidong Electronics & Highbroad - all connected to Apple's supply chain: aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs… #appleforcedlabour #freeuyghurs
