The siblings said they lost contact with their brother in 2017, when Chinese authorities began apprehending the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and interning them in “re-education” camps to purportedly prevent religious extremism and terrorism.
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Popular Tibetan video-sharing app to be shut down
But a group advocating for greater rights for Tibetans said it was more likely that the Chinese government ordered the app’s closure because it has ratcheted up efforts to restrict Tibetans from using their own language.
Tibetan monk sentenced to 3 years by Chinese authorities
Monlam Gyatso, a Tibetan monk, writer, and teacher from Raktam village, Serta county in Qinghai province’s Kardze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, had been held for more than a year in an undisclosed location before his sentencing in October earlier this year, sources added.
Tibetan writer held by China for ‘discussing’ Dalai Lama
A prominent Tibetan writer who disappeared last year in Chinese custody was arrested for taking part in politically sensitive discussions about Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Radio Free Asia has learned.
Uyghur groups back US call for debate on rights violations in Xinjiang at UN
The U.S. on Monday filed a proposal known as a “draft decision,” demanding that the Geneva-based council organize the discussion at next week’s session in response to a damning report issued on Aug. 31 by former U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet warning of possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.
Uyghur imam sentenced for providing religious instruction to son in Xinjiang
A Uyghur father and son in northwestern China’s Xinjiang province are serving prison sentences for taking part in “illegal” religious education at home, a Uyghur who has knowledge of the situation said.
Memet Musa, a 50-year-old religious cleric from
Chinese authorities jail at least 100 Uyghurs from the same Xinjiang hamlet
At least 100 residents from the same small community in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region have been imprisoned by authorities, a security guard from the area said.The reasons for the imprisonment of the Uyghur residents are not known.The guard also said that the government has provided
One year after mass jailings, Hong Kong remembers the 47
One year after dozens of opposition politicians and pro-democracy activists were put behind bars for “subversion” after taking part in a democratic primary in the summer of 2020, Hongkongers in exile say the mass arrests, which were widely condemned by the international community, struck a “devastating blow” to the city.
误中当局圈套？ 山西访民上京被指”敲诈勒索”判囚五年
中国的信访制度一直引起争议。 山西汾西县当局去年向一名男子提供五万元补助，要求他不要在中国共产党一百周年期间到北京上访。党庆过后，该男子再度上京时遭遇截访。他失联四个多月后，近日证实被以“敲诈勒索罪”判刑五年。
张展生命垂危 家人：望当局核准保外就医
自去年5月入狱以来，中国公民记者张展持续绝食抗议长达一年半，虽然狱方强迫鼻喂灌食，但她近期的体重仍掉到40公斤以下，“健康遭受了不可逆转的损害”，家人担忧她有生命危险，希望中国当局能核准她保外就医。对此，无国界记者组织11月4日也发出紧急声明，要求中国政府立即释放张展
Jailed Wuhan COVID-19 journalist ‘close to death’ in Chinese prison
Jailed Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is close to death following months of intermittent hunger strikes in protest at her jailing, RFA has learned.
Zhang, 37, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by Shanghai’s Pudong District People’s Court on Dec. 28, 2020, and has been eating very little food, rather than refusing anything, to
Police in China’s Guangdong Move to Arrest Rights Lawyer Zhou Xiaoyun
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have applied to arrest a human rights lawyer after holding him under residential surveillance for six months, his friend told RFA.
Rights lawyer Zhou Xiaoyun, who formerly worked as a senior editor at the cutting-edge Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper in Guangzhou