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RFA. 25 October 2021

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Supporters of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti marked his 52^nd birthday Monday with calls for his release from a life sentence for “separatism” he received for his advocacy work in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region.

The Guardian. 22 October 2021

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Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter doubled down on his denunciation of the Chinese government by posting a video drawing attention to the human rights abuses suffered by the Uyghur people and other Muslim minorities. Kanter extended his criticism to Middle East leaders and prominent Muslim athletes, including Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah and former boxing champion Amir Khan, by equating their silence to complicity.

Politco. 22 October 2021

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G7 trade ministers on Friday reiterated a commitment to tackle forced labor worldwide at a meeting in London and added specific phrases to make clear that Beijing was in their crosshairs.

RFA. 20 October 2021

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Scores of Chinese government bodies are engaged in an elaborate whole-of-government campaign of repression targeting Muslim Uyghurs in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, according to report published this week by an Australian think tank.

The Asean Post. 20 October 2021

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Activists on Tuesday called for the postponement of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as China prepared to receive the Olympic flame, a day after a protest disrupted the lighting ceremony in Olympia.

WION. 19 October 2021

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A senior official sanctioned by the US, the UK, the EU, and Canada for his participation for alleged human rights violations in China’s far western Xinjiang region has been promoted to the top post in Tibet.

AlJazeera. 20 October 2021

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China has lit the flame for the 2022 Winter Olympics after the ceremonial torch arrived from Athens, as human rights activists called for a boycott of the tournament over Beijing’s human rights record.

Cai Qi, the Communist Party secretary of Beijing, lit a cauldron at the capital’s Olympic Tower on Wednesday to symbolise the Olympic flame’s arrival in China.

The Guardian. 19 October 2021

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Authorities in the Chinese region of Xinjiang are using predictive policing and human surveillance to gather “micro clues” about Uyghurs and empower neighbourhood informants to ensure compliance at every level of society, according to a report.

RFA. 18 October 2021

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A mural artist who champions the oppressed has painted a portrait of a former Uyghur survivor of an internment camp on a building in France’s second-largest city to raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Muslim minority group in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region.

NPR. 15 October 2021

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 In 1961, Muhammad’s then-teenage parents loaded as many belongings as they could onto yaks and horses, then set off walking toward the snow-tipped Pamir mountains. Their destination: Afghanistan.