World leaders call on Beijing to respect rights to protest

“Our message to peaceful protesters around the world is the same and consistent: People should be allowed the right to assemble and to peacefully protest policies or laws or dictates that they take issue with,” Kirby said, declining to comment on the protester’s demands, which have included calls for Chinese President Xi Jinping to resign.

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Mute Protest: Chinese crowds hold up blank sheets to hit out at lockdowns, censorship

Compared with the Post-it notes that formed the “Lennon Walls” of Hong Kong’s 2019 protest movement, which showcased huge mosaics of diverse messages and creative personal expression, the blank sheets of paper are a more ironic reference to government controls and censorship, analysts said.

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New U.S. bill would appoint expert to monitor rights abuses in Xinjiang

Legislation introduced in Congress this week would provide new tools to hold Beijing accountable for its persecution of ethnic Uyghurs, including through the appointment of an expert on human rights violations in northwest China’s Xinjiang region.

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COVID disinfectant poisoning kills at least 13 Uyghurs in village in Xinjiang

The Uyghurs who died were all residents of Guma county (in Chinese, Pishan), Hotan (Hetian) prefecture. They are said to be among thousands of people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) reported to have been poisoned by disinfectants used to fight the COVID-19 virus, according to online comments on social media. 

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Uyghur convict in Indonesia deported amid fears he was sent to China

Indonesia deported a Uyghur terror convict in July after he served his sentence, police revealed without saying where he was sent amid fears that he was expelled to China which, the United Nations says, represses Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.

Ahmet Bozoglan, 35, who was convicted in 2015, had a Turkish passport when he was arrested in Poso

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Lack of Uyghur-language emergency services leads to more deaths in Xinjiang

Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining), a city of roughly a half-million mainly Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, had been under lockdown since early August, prompted by outbreaks of COVID-19. RFA has previously reported deaths from starvation or lack of access to medicine in Ghulja.

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Xinjiang Police Files: The Truth for All to See

Orders to kill escapees from the camps were ringing in Zuhre’s ears as she poured through the documents and every one of the photographs for the second time. Her own relatives still unaccounted for, she almost envied those who now knew the fate of their loved ones.

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Hong Kong’s intrepid press corps battle dislocation, nostalgia and unemployment

While the implementation of a draconian national security law since July 1, 2020 has ushered in a crackdown on pro-democracy media organizations, activists and politicians in Hong Kong, many journalists have already joined the steady stream of people leaving their home to seek a less restricted life elsewhere.

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北京14独立人士人身安全受威胁为由退出基层人大选举

北京市区县人大代表选举进入倒数时刻之际,14名独立人士,包括多名“709案”家属,以人身安全为由宣告退选。这批无党派人士宣布参选以来一直遭当局严厉管控。虽然他们在重压下未能更进一步,但分析人士认为,他们的努力已经达到预期效果。

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Noted Uyghur Folklore Professor Serving Prison Term in China’s Xinjiang

An internationally recognized expert in Uyghur folklore and ethnographer who disappeared in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) more than three years ago has been confirmed as being imprisoned by authorities, according to her former co-workers at Xinjiang University.

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Belgium, Czech Republic Legislatures Pass Uyghur Genocide Declarations

The Belgian parliament on Tuesday recognized China’s treatment of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) as crimes against humanity and warned of a “serious risk of genocide,” joining other governments and legislatures that have made similar designations.

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Niece of Prominent Uyghur Scholar Confirmed to Have Died in Xinjiang Internment Camp

The niece of prominent Uyghur scholar and linguist-in-exile Abduweli Ayup has been confirmed to have died while being investigated by state security police in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) Prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to official sources.

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