A recent report from the Congressional-Executive Commission on China detailed how detainees are moved from the camps into nearby factories and in the agriculture industry, with goods made with their labor ending up in the supply chains of some major U.S. companies.
By Nick Zuroski, Contributing Writer
APRIL 2, 2020
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The CCP’s unyielding control over Muslims from Xinjiang extends to every aspect of their daily life, including travel and staying in hotels.
What’s the best way to help your family? For Uyghurs living in the U.S., silence used to feel like the safest option to protect missing relatives in China. For one Massachusetts man, that’s no longer the case.
Evidence piles up and videos document the massive transfer of Turkic workers sent to work in Chinese factories outside of Xinjiang.
Videos of seemingly hundreds of Muslim Uyghurs leaving western Xinjiang province to work in factories elsewhere indicate that China is plugging the holes in its economy caused by the Wuhan coronavirus with “slave laborers and cannon fodder,” the human rights publication Bitter Winter asserted on Wednesday.
“I started to see a sadness in their eyes. They had become sad. They didn’t know what to do, so they just accepted it.”
Post-disappearance, what happens to those left behind?
Observers say authorities are pushing a narrative that they’ve stemmed the outbreak, at the risk of lives.
The recent award given to Sairagul Sauytbay, namely the U.S. State Department’s International Women of Courage Award (IWOC), has helped maintain international attention on the campaign of repression currently being carried out in East Turkestan (called Xinjiang by the Chinese government) against the Uyghur population, and other ethnic groups in the region, including ethnic Kazakhs.
The mass confinement of Xinjiang’s Uyghurs in internment camps resulted in a myriad of children and parents of the detained left with no means of subsistence.
UHRP’s new report, “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” documents an ongoing and worsening issue facing Uyghurs abroad, namely refusal to renew passports and denial of access to other documentation by the Chinese government.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project recognizes 15 years since the release of prominent Uyghur human rights defender, Rebiya Kadeer, from prison in China. Her release in 2005 illustrates that the international community, when it chooses to do so, can make a genuine impact on the ground in China.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), in a joint open letter this week, called on the Government Pension Fund of Norway (the “Oil Fund”) to immediately divest from Hikvision and Dahua. These Chinese companies specialize in surveillance equipment and services directly used for the mass detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic groups in the Uyghur region of China.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) welcomes the bi-partisan legislation introduced today in the U.S. Congress to end U.S. companies’ complicity in Uyghur forced labor.
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In Xinjiang, China has started a massive crackdown on Uighur Muslims and is using high-tech tools developed in Silicon Valley to assist its efforts.
Activists say that even if Beijing’s crackdown can’t be stopped, steps can be taken to address the ‘secondary trauma’ of those who have fled
Jon spoke to lawyer Nury Turkel who is from the Muslim Uighur community, more than a million of whom are currently being held in camps by the Chinese authorities.
UHRP’s new report, “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” documents an ongoing and worsening issue facing Uyghurs abroad, namely refusal to renew passports and denial of access to other documentation by the Chinese government.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project is deeply concerned by alarming new evidence that local residents are starving across the Uyghur homeland.
A new UHRP report analyzes a leaked document revealing ground-level implementation of the Chinese government’s mass detention program targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.
