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#China’s severe repression in #Xinjiang raises serious concerns that the seven students are still under some form of detention or movement restrictions. The Chinese government should immediately free them and restore their rights," said @wang_maya. hrw.org/news/2022/03/3…
" A government list of prisoners leaked in December 2021 indicates that six of the seven students on the list were sentenced in December 2014 to between three-and-a-half and eight years in prison.
Although they would have completed their sentences, it is unclear whether they have been released."
Human Rights Watch, Xinjiang Victims Database, and other organizations have previously documented cases in which individuals who were supposed to be released from prison...
... during the Strike Hard Campaign were sent soon after release or immediately to political education camps or prisons instead.
The seven prisoners, who were Ilham Tohti’s students at the Central Nationalities University of China or volunteers for his website Uyghurbiz.net, are Abduqeyum Ablimit, Perhat Halmurat, Akbar (or Ekbar) Imin, Mutellip Imin, Shohret Nijat, Atikem Rozi, and Luo Yuwei.
The list provides the most detailed information on the students since late 2014, when they were tried and sentenced in secret.
At the time, Ilham Tohti’s lawyers, Liu Xiaoyuan and Li Fangping, told the media that the students were convicted on a charge of separatism and were given between three and eight years in prison.
The Chinese government has never released the students’ sentencing information. A search for the students’ names on the Supreme People’s Court verdict database returned no results.
The leaked list – created in August 2015 – contains the names, genders, ethnicities, dates of birth, ID numbers, addresses, crimes, sentencing dates, and other details of over 18,000 Uyghurs in Xinjiang convicted of political and religious crimes.
The anonymous source, who said they are a “Han Chinese who is opposed to the Chinese government’s policies in Xinjiang,” emailed this list of 18,000 prisoners and another of 10,000 Uyghur prisoners to the Xinjiang Victims Database in December 2021.
@shahitbiz a website documenting cases of people in Xinjiang who were detained, forcibly disappeared, or whose rights were otherwise violated since September 2018, has verified the leaked lists.
The Database said details contained in the leaked list are consistent with other information it had collected. The situations of about 1,500 people on the list were already documented in the Database.
Some of the personal and detention details of about 20 people matched information that had not been publicly disclosed previously.
@JewherIlham said that his family has not been given access to visit him since early 2017. The prominent scholar established Uyghurbiz.net, a Chinese-language forum, in 2006 to raise awareness about problems facing Uyghurs, ...
... and to foster dialogue between Uyghurs and the majority Han Chinese. The Chinese authorities harassed him and had him under surveillance for years, barred him from teaching, and periodically placed him under house arrest.

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Russian and Chinese disinformation about Ukraine, which is ideologically linked to ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda on #Taiwan, is breaking through into online discourse on the democratic island, a fact-checking organization said. rfa.org/english/news/c…
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Chinese authorities in #Xinjiang are restricting the number of Muslims allowed to observe Ramadan, drawing heavy criticism from rights groups that see the government directive as the latest effort to diminish #Uyghur culture in the region. rfa.org/english/news/u…
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“Photos and video that showed young children isolated from their families and crying at a #Shanghai hospital led to an outburst of anger online on Saturday, as #China’s largest city struggled to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious #Omicron.” nytimes.com/2022/04/02/bus…
In the images, a series of hospital cribs, each holding several young children, appeared to be parked in the hallway of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center in the city’s Jinshan district. A video showed several of the children crying.
The images and video could not be independently verified, but in a statement, the health center said they were real and did not deny that parents with Covid were being separated from their children.
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The Russian forces that stormed toward #Kyiv in the opening days of the war in imposing tanks columns were in retreat from the capital on Saturday, pulling back under fire in dozens of outlying towns and villages. #Ukraine nytimes.com/live/2022/04/0…
Russian attacks elsewhere in Ukraine have not abated, and the Pentagon has cautioned that Russian formations near Kyiv could be repositioning to refit or resupply for renewed assaults.
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The security treaty between #China and Solomon Islands has raised concerns among countries in the Pacific. I talked to @MihaiSora and @CainTess about the potential impact of the treaty on the region. Latest for @dw_chinese: dw.com/zh/%E4%B8%AD%E…
In a speech to the parliament on Tuesday, Solomon Island’s Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said warnings against his country’s security negotiation with China were “very insulting” as he denied being pressured by Beijing to sign the deal with China. williamyang-35700.medium.com/how-does-the-s…
“We are not pressured in any way by our new friends and there is no intention whatsoever to ask China to build a military base in the Solomon Islands,” Sogavare said.
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