China Doubles Down to Crush Islamic Culture and Identity

January 10, 2024 | Cultural Property News | By Kate Fitz Gibbon

A 2021 study by the Uyghur Human Rights Project details how over 300 noted intellectuals and cultural producers have all disappeared into the camps and prisons.[v] The State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom reported in May 2021 that the whereabouts of “hundreds of prominent Uyghur intellectuals, religious scholars, cultural figures, doctors, journalists, artists, academics, and other professionals… remained unknown.”^[vi] Editors of previously approved textbooks on Uyghur history have been given life sentences and “suspended” death sentences for “inciting ethnic hatred” and “fabricating separatist materials.”[vii]

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