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RFA. 13 October 2021

Below is an article published by RFA. Photo:Photo courtesy of Arkin’s Iminjan’s former classmate.

A Uyghur who served 15 years in prison on unknown charges in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region was not released when his sentence ended in June, and his family has no knowledge of his whereabouts, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

Technology Review. 11 October 2021

Below is an article published by Technology Review. Photo:Getty Images.

Sometime in mid-2019, a police contractor in the Chinese city of Kuitun tapped a young college student from the University of Washington on the shoulder as she walked through a crowded market intersection. The student, Vera Zhou, didn’t notice the tapping at first because she was listening to music through her earbuds as she weaved through the crowd. When she turned around and saw the black uniform, the blood drained from her face. Speaking in Chinese, Vera’s native language, the police officer motioned her into a nearby People’s Convenience Police Station—one of more than 7,700 such surveillance hubs that now dot the region.       

Sky News. 11 October 2021

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The man, who says he served as a police officer in Xinjiang and asked only to be identified by the name Jiang, told Sky News of the grim conditions on board the trains.

The Diplomat. 6 October 2021

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Afghanistan is home to more than 100 Uyghur families. Many of them have lived in the country peacefully for decades and yet continue to live in fear of the Chinese government, which regularly uses techniques of transnational repression to target Uyghurs living abroad. 

NL Times. 6 October 2021

Below is an article published by NL Times. Photo:Deposit Photos.

Three top Dutch laboratories have been working together with Chinese scientists to develop sensitive DNA techniques for years, RTL Nieuws and Follow the Money reported based on their research. Experts are concerned about this cooperation.

RTL and FTM looked at 20 scientific publications predicting body characteristics based on a DNA profile and facial recognition techniques. Some of the studies looked at mapping family ties. 

RFA. 5 October 2021

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RFA: The human rights situation of the Uyghurs is very concerning, and some countries around the world have declared that China’s treatment of the Uyghurs is a genocide. Why has Turkey remained silent on this topic?

RFA. 4 October 2021

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Human rights advocates are pressing for the release of an ethnic Uyghur-Canadian citizen held in a Chinese prison since 2005, following Beijing’s freeing of two Canadians last month after Ottawa ended the house arrest of Huawei tech executive Meng Wanzhou.

Big News Network. 4 October 2021

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Paris [France], October 3 (ANI): More than 2000 people gathered in Paris on October 2 and demonstrated against the ongoing rights violations of Uyghurs in Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

AlJazeera. 29 September 2021

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Japan’s former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has won the ruling party’s leadership election, virtually ensuring that he will become the country’s next prime minister.

Kishida won 257 votes in a runoff on Wednesday to defeat Taro Kono, a popular vaccines minister who previously held the positions of defence and foreign minister.

RFA. 29 September 2021

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With Koranic recitations and the raising of the blue and white crescent moon and star East Turkestan flag, Uyghurs in Canada opened a mosque and community center on the outskirts of Toronto in a renovated 150-year-old Roman Catholic Church to serve a community of 2,000 members of the Turkic ethnic group.