Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BROPHY David
A huge network of internment camps for those displaying the slightest sign of ‘extremism’, where, according to some ex-detainees, Muslims are encouraged to renounce their religion. Closure and demolition of mosques, with intense surveillance of those still functioning. Severe restrictions on the (...)
, by BROPHY David
Muslim minorities in Xinjiang are facing unprecedented repression. David Brophy argues that socialists should offer solidarity to the repressed minorities without pinning hopes on Washington as an ally of the Uyghur cause.
Aerial view of Urumqi, Xinjiang, July 2017. Photo: Anagoria via (...)
, by KUO Lily
UN panel says 1m ethnic Uighur Muslims being held in internment camps in Xinjiang
China has denied claims made during a UN panel last week that authorities are suppressing the rights of Muslim minorities in the west of the country in the name of fighting terrorism.
A Chinese delegation told a (...)
, by KUO Lily
Xinjiang, home to about 12 million Muslims, has been the focus of an intense government crackdown
One in five arrests in China last year took place in Xinjiang, the nominally autonomous western territory that critics say has been turned into a police state rife with human rights violations. (...)
, by WUC
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) unequivocally condemns the violence that took place at Kunming railway station on 1 March 2014, in which 29 people were reportedly killed. The WUC expresses its condolences to the victims and their families.
One named person has been implicated in the attack, (...)
, by FIDH
International Federation for Human rights (FIDH)
Press Release
China
FIDH calls for an independent and impartial investigation in Xinjiang
Paris, 10 July 2009 - On 5 July, a protest in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, turned violent and the security (...)
, by NPA
The events that took place on July 5, 2009, in Urumqi – the capital town of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, in far west China – and that have left its streets blood-stained, are “unprecedented” in the last twenty years. The extent of the events is so serious that President Hu Jintao has been (...)
, by SHICHOR Yitzhak
The broader roots of the eruption of protest in China’s far-west region of Xinjiang lie in the experience of the Uighur people under Beijing’s rule, says Yitzhak Shichor.
The reports of violence and deaths in the city of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang province in northwest China, draw renewed (...)
, by SZADZIEWSKI Henryk
The heart of Kashgar - a place where Uighur people have lived and worked for centuries - is being destroyed or transformed into a tourist theme-park, and its people resettled. In a pattern familiar in modern China no one has asked the Uighurs themselves, says Henryk Szadziewski.
In the heart (...)
, by HOLDSTOCK Nick
The Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region of China has seen a series of clashes between the majority Uighurs and Han Chinese settlers since the 1980s. But it was in the city of Yining that the largest protest took place on 5 February 1997. Initially written off by the Chinese authorities as an (...)
, by BRANIGAN Tania
Muslim Uighurs have held anti-government protests in the far western region of Xinjiang, Chinese officials have acknowledged, blaming separatists inspired by the unrest in Tibet.
Demonstrators took to the streets at the weekly bazaar in Hotan on March 23, but news of the incident has only just (...)
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