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Apr 29 • 8 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
“A #Uyghur college student who supported the “white paper” protests in China is being detained in Xinjiang pending an investigation into her communication with her brother who lives in the United States, according to a state security agent.”

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Kamile Wayit, a 19-year-old preschool education major at a university in China’s Henan province was detained in December after posting a video about November’s “white paper” protests across China.
When she returned to her home in Atush, the capital of Xinjiang’s Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, for winter break, city police apprehended her, her brother Kewser Wayit told RFA.
Authorities now are reviewing Wayit’s case for potential prosecution, said a State Security Bureau police officer in Atush, adding that she was apprehended for communicating with her brother who lives in the US, but also related to her posting on TikTok about the fire in Urumqi.
“The State Security Bureau detained her,” the agent said. “After her case reaches the prosecutor’s office, her lawyer can review her case, [which is] related to state security [and is] vastly different from other social cases.”
The agent also expressed some uncertainty over the crime Wayit would be charged with.

“I don’t know what her real crime was” or what relevant organizations determined her crime to be based upon, she said.
The agent said she didn’t know exactly how long Wayit would be held at the national security detention center, but that once the prosecutor’s office reviewed her case, it would be submitted to the court for trial.
“It may take two to three months for her case to reach the prosecutor’s office, and then they will inform the accused’s family about inviting lawyers to defend her rights, or the government will appoint a lawyer for her free of charge,” she said.

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"We stand ready to come to the Philippines' assistance, in their exercise of their sovereign rights," Paparo said.

"We support the Philippines' sovereign rights, in its EEZ [exclusive economic zone]," he said.
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From @WSJ: "#China is resisting a U.S. push to build more-reliable systems for communicating in a crisis, raising the risk that a miscalculation by either side’s military could spill into conflict." wsj.com/articles/china…
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As Chinese officials see it, hotlines give the U.S. cover to continue what they view as provocative military operations in China’s backyard."
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