At least seven young Myanmar men and women from Tanintharyi region and Rakhine state have received long prison terms for donating money — U.S. $8 or less in a few cases — to opponents of the military junta that has ruled the country for 13 months, their lawyers and anti-junta activists told RFA. Military authorities
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
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
Eleven Tibetans beaten and jailed by Chinese authorities in January for spreading news of the damage of a 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and lots of prayer wheels in southwestern Chinas Sichuan province have actually been sent out to labor camps in the region, Tibetans with knowledge of the scenario said Friday. Monks Tashi Dorjee, Tsering Samdup,
2 female members of a prolonged Muslim Uyghur family serving long jail sentences for committing spiritual “crimes” are believed to be kept in a ladiess jail in the town of Sanji (in Chinese, Changji) in Chinas far-western Xinjiang region. Furthermore, two male members of an in-law and the family are likewise serving life terms, the
A court in Xinjiang sentenced 5 Muslim Uyghur females from one family to prolonged jail terms for “prohibited” religious activities, according to a copy of the 2019 verdict recently gotten by RFA. The ladies– an elderly mother, her three daughters, and her daughter-in-law– got prison terms of in between 7 and 20 years, according to
