EU lawmakers find ‘serious risk of genocide’ in China’s repression of Uyghurs — Radio Free Asia

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Members of the European Parliament on Thursday easily passed a resolution calling the Chinese government’s systemic human rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority “crimes against humanity and a serious risk of genocide.” The EU condemned “in the strongest possible terms that the Uyghurs have been systematically oppressed by brutal measures including mass deportation,

oppose it and die’ — Radio Free Asia

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The bodies of dead civilians lie among mangled bicycles near Beijing's Tiananmen Square in this June 4, 1989 file photo. Credit: AP

In the second part of this two-part essay, Bao Tong, a former political secretary to late, ousted Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, comments on then Premier Li Peng’s accounts of the events leading up to the June 4, 1989 bloodshed by the People’s Liberation Army that put an end to weeks of student-led protests on Tiananmen Square.

China razes Kashgar’s iconic Grand Bazaar — Radio Free Asia

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Satellite images provided by PlanetLabs Inc. and analyzed by RFA show the rapid demolition of Kashgar Bazaar between April 4, 2022 (L) and May 4, 2022 (R). The travel guide Lonely Planet advises visitors to Kashgar, China, to fight the crowds that gather at its Sunday Grand Bazaar and let their senses loose to the

Xinjiang officials said to pay Uyghurs to perform dance at Kashgar mosque — Radio Free Asia

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Uyghur musicians play their instruments atop the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, northwestern China's Xinjiang region, while other Uyghurs dance in the square below, May 3, 2022. Credit: China News Service video screenshot

Authorities in Kashgar allegedly paid Muslim Uyghur men to dance outside the most famous mosque in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region to celebrate the end of Ramadan, a performance that was filmed and released by state media ahead of an anticipated visit by the United Nations human rights chief later this month. Kashgar locals told RFA

China calls on public to submit ‘opinions’ to ruling party ahead of top meeting — Radio Free Asia

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China's President Xi Jinping (front) appears for the closing session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 11, 2022. Credit: AFP

The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is calling for ‘opinions’ from citizens ahead of a crucial political meeting later this year, amid growing public anger over CCP leader Xi Jinping’s COVID-19 policy, that has seen millions confined in grueling lockdowns across the country in recent months. The “call for public submissions” comes ahead of the

Chinese officials restrict the number of Uyghurs who can observe Ramadan — Radio Free Asia

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Tursunjan Mamat sets down a copy of the Quran during a government organized visit for foreign journalists to his home in Aksu prefecture, northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 20, 2021. Credit: Associated Press

” Ramadan procedures are being taken,” stated a village cop in Kashgars Tokkuzak (Toukezhake) municipality. Celebrations religious policy. The party never stated to eliminate faith, however to Sinicize it.” ” This system is developed to avoid religious beliefs to have unfavorable results on childrens minds,” he stated. A cadre from the village is registering individuals

China crimps contact between Tibetans abroad and in Tibet, RFA survey shows — Radio Free Asia

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Forbiding cash transfers China has actually been tracking Tibetans in Tibet communicating with those in exile to shut down the circulation of information to the outside world, according to sources inside Tibet who provide details to neighborhoods abroad. The Chinese government also has actually started prohibiting the transfer of cash from Tibetans in the TAR

Uyghurs still push for accountability 25 years after Ghulja Massacre — Radio Free Asia

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Chinese security forces prepare to face off with Uyghur protesters in Ghulja in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, February 1997, in a screenshot from a video of a Chinese television report smuggled out of China. Credit: UK's Channel 4 News report/YouTube

Massive clean-up operation. In the consequences of the crackdown, a short article titled “Lets discover the terrorist mask of East Turkistan terrorists” released by Chinas main Xinhua news firm called the demonstrators, “insurgents.”. Following the event, the Chinese government used the demonstration as a pretext to perform a year-long massive “clean-up operation” throughout Xinjiang under

Uyghur torchbearer for 2008 Beijing Olympics serving 14-year sentence in Xinjiang — Radio Free Asia

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Uyghur torchbearer for 2008 Beijing Olympics serving 14-year sentence in Xinjiang — Radio Free Asia

Adil went to Chinese schools in Xinjiang and studied in Russia in the 1990s, Abduweli said. Adils father likewise was a loyal civil servant of the Chinese in the Kashgar prefecture government. Abduweli also said that Adil is related to him. To validate Adils detention, RFA called the Saybagh district workplace of the Urumqi Municipal

US student invents Braille system for visually impaired Uyghurs — Radio Free Asia

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The Uyghur Braille alphabet in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of Harris Mowbray.

The Uyghur Braille alphabet in an undated photo. Picture courtesy of Harris Mowbray. Protecting the Uyghur language The number of visually impaired individuals amongst the 12 million Uyghurs living in northwestern Chinas Xinjiang area has actually never ever been divulged by the Chinese government, which has actually stymied the advancement of a Uyghur Braille script.

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