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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;
A former Uyghur detainee, Madi, told Amnesty he witnessed the torture of a cellmate who he later learned died from the effects of the torture. Madi said the man was made to sit in a tiger chair in the middle of their cell. #FreeTheUyghurs #FreeTheAseer
The cellmates were made to watch him sit there, restrained and immobilized, for 3 days, and were expressly forbidden to help him.
"[The man] was in our room for more than two months…he was made to sit in a tiger chair. [I think the man was being punished for pushing a guard.]
"[The man] was in our room for more than two months…he was made to sit in a tiger chair. [I think the man was being punished for pushing a guard.]
They brought the chair into our room…They told us that if we helped him then we would sit in the chair—It was an iron chair—his arms were cuffed and chained. Legs were chained as well. His body was tied to the back of the chair—Two [cuffs] were locked around his wrists and legs.
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.
This is Prisoners in Al-Sina'a prison, and they were transferred to the prisons of the #PKK militia in #Hasakah, which is
#Jerkin _ Prison
#Alaya _ prison
#Chinese _ quantum_ prison
#Shaddadi prison
Abdul Raouf Hadhrami, Yemen
Muhammad Bahjat Saleh, Yemen
Ahmed Monti, Yemen
#Jerkin _ Prison
#Alaya _ prison
#Chinese _ quantum_ prison
#Shaddadi prison
Abdul Raouf Hadhrami, Yemen
Muhammad Bahjat Saleh, Yemen
Ahmed Monti, Yemen
The names of those who were transferred to Al-Kam Al-Sini Prison in Shaddadi
Fahad Abdullah Al-Otaibi
Saudi
Mishaal Awad Al-Enezi
Saudi
Ismail Muhammad Binyamin
Tunisi
Hassan Jawed Al-Raimi
Tunis
Habib Murhaf Jabar
Tunisia
Fahad Abdullah Al-Otaibi
Saudi
Mishaal Awad Al-Enezi
Saudi
Ismail Muhammad Binyamin
Tunisi
Hassan Jawed Al-Raimi
Tunis
Habib Murhaf Jabar
Tunisia
