Nearly Half of Journalists Jailed in China Are Uyghurs, Report Says

January 18, 2024 | Voice of America | By Liam Scott

“For the Chinese government, Uyghur journalists are a dangerous group of people. They don’t want them to say anything,” said Zubayra Shamseden, who works at the Uyghur Human Rights Project, or UHRP, in Washington.

“They [Beijing] try to crack down on Uyghur journalists particularly because they want to shut the Uyghur voice off,” Shamseden told VOA.

“For Uyghur journalists, whether they are inside China, inside East Turkistan or outside of China, it doesn’t matter,” Shamseden said. “They [Beijing] try to put pressure on them so they don’t speak out, so they don’t disclose all the information that China doesn’t want the world to know.”

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