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15 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
China's persecution of the Uyghurs is a crime against humanity. It is also the gravest example of a worldwide attack on human rights. Our cover this week econ.trib.al/C2MimPa
Official local-level reports, seen by The Economist, provide damning evidence that China's persecution of the Uyghurs has terrorised hundreds of thousands of children econ.trib.al/5DEMZMS
Thousands of miles from Xinjiang, Uyghurs still live in fear of the Chinese state econ.trib.al/MFbZ7l1 From
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Global freedom has been declining since just before the financial crisis of 2007-08. Covid has accelerated this trend in several ways econ.trib.al/SsnhDzs

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