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Muslim minorities > Uighurs

Crackdown, Internment camps,

Forced sterilisation, Torture

Forced to leave China

At 65, Imam Madi Toleukhan is one of the oldest refugees

in Bekbolat, Kazakhstan,

where more than 100 families took shelter

after fleeing the Chinese regime.

‘We were richer back there. I owned a herd,

but I was too afraid for my sons, my grandchildren and their future:

I came to Kazakhstan to save them.

I didn’t want them to be the fourth generation

to suffer at the hands of the Chinese government,’

he says

‘I can’t sing any more’:

The survivors of China’s prison camps in Xinjiang – in pictures

Often the victims of Chinese repression

present physical and psychological effects

long after they have been released from imprisonment

Since 2014,

millions of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities

have been locked up in China

and subjected to torture and forced labour.

Some of those released talk

about trying to rebuild their lives in neighbouring Kazakhstan

Photography by Robin Tutenges

G

Thu 28 Dec 2023    08.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2023/dec/28/
china-prison-camps-xinjiang-kazakhstan-uyghurs-kazakhs-in-pictures

podcasts > before 2024

Forced sterilisations and life

in China's Uighur Muslim internment camps

G    2020

Forced sterilisations and life in China's Uighur Muslim internment camps

Video    G    8 September 2020

Qelbinur Sidik,

a former teacher coerced to work in China’s internment camps,

speaks about her forced sterilisation at the age of 50,

under a government campaign to suppress

birth rates of women from Muslim minorities.

Sidik said the crackdown swept up

not just women likely to fall pregnant,

but those well beyond normal childbearing ages.

Messages she got from local authorities

said women aged 19 to 59

were expected to have intrauterine devices (IUDs) fitted

or undergo sterilisation.

G

8 September 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc4hwH0TmSo

Why more than a million Uighurs

are being held in camps in China

G    24 July 2020

Why more than a million Uighurs are being held in camps in China

Video    Guardian News    24 July 2020

In Xinjiang province, China,

more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities

are being held in "re-education" camps

which the Chinese government claims

are benign vocational centres teaching useful career skills.

But former camp detainees have described them

as de facto prisons implementing mass brainwashing

and obedience to the Communist party.

As more evidence emerges of torture,

forced sterilisation of women

and other methods of population reduction,

should the situation in Xinjiang be termed a genocide?

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKpyaDZkNfU

A Secret Look

Inside a Chinese Labor Program for Uighurs

NYT    30 December 2019

A Secret Look Inside a Chinese Labor Program for Uighurs

Video    Visual Investigations    NYT    30 December 2019

China is relocating Uighurs

and other Muslim minorities to urban areas

as part of a contentious labor program.

The Times obtained rare footage taken inside one.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEkliuqQo-g

China:

Why They Must Free Our Parents

From Concentration Camps

NYT    19 August 2019

China:

Why They Must Free Our Parents From Concentration Camps

Video        NYT Opinion        19 August 2019

In the video Op-Ed above,

three Chinese citizens whose parents disappeared

demand their release from China’s “re-education camps.”

The government is estimated

to have detained over one million people.

The goal:

to force China’s Uighur ethnic minority

to assimilate.

China’s decades-long campaign

against the Uighur minority has surged in recent years

through the construction of hundreds of detention camps.

Even outside of detention centers,

millions of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang region

live in a virtual prison.

The surveillance state deploys sophisticated technology,

including facial recognition tracking,

compulsory apps that monitor mobile phones,

and even DNA collection.

China has justified its actions

as a fight against religious extremism

within the predominantly Muslim ethnic minority.

The state has also defended the camps

as “boarding schools” for job retraining.

Yet community leaders,

including secular citizens and academics,

have been targeted for detention.

The international community

has widely condemned China’s actions.

The United States Congress

is considering legislation to do so.

And, in late July,

China claimed to have released most detainees

— yet experts and on-the-ground reporting

suggest that the detention camps persist,

and are even expanding.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbN-yF5d2QU

Uighurs, Uyghurs        FR / UK / USA

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
uighurs

https://www.npr.org/tags/322587525/
uighurs

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/
uyghurs

2024

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/
1254713686/embedded-the-black-gate-episode-3

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/
1254713685/embedded-the-black-gate-episode-2

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/
1254713684/embedded-the-black-gate-episode-1

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/
us/politics/china-secret-deal-uyghurs.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/10/
magazine/uyghur-china-escape.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/22/
uyghur-activist-accuses-labour-of-failing-to-stand-up-to-china

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/17/
labour-backtracks-genocide-ruling-china-uyghurs-lammy-visit

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/31/
china-uyghur-muslims-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-un

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/19/
china-has-renamed-hundreds-of-uyghur-villages-and-towns-
say-human-rights-groups

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/090624/
au-coeur-des-supplices-qu-inflige-pekin-aux-ouighours

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/030124/
chishan-geant-chinois-du-calamar-exploite-les-mers-et-les-humains

2023

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2023/dec/28/
china-prison-camps-xinjiang-kazakhstan-uyghurs-kazakhs-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/08/
uyghur-film-maker-ikram-nurmehmet-claims-
he-was-tortured-by-authorities-in-china

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/31/
britain-uyghur-genocide-james-cleverly-china

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/01/
my-escape-from-chinas-mass-arrests-uyghurs-xinjiang-reeducation-camps

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2023/sep/08/
chinas-push-to-promote-state-approved-version-of-uyghur-culture-
in-pictures

2021

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/30/
uyghur-tribunal-testimony-surveillance-china

https://www.propublica.org/article/
how-china-uses-youtube-and-twitter-
to-spread-its-propaganda-version-of-life-for-uyghurs-in-xinjiang - June 23, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/
opinion/sunday/china-xinjiang-uyghur-muslims-genocide.html

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/10/
china-uyghur-xinjiang-dystopian-hellscape-says-amnesty-international-report

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/
1005263835/new-report-details-
firsthand-accounts-of-torture-from-uyghur-muslims-in-china

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/07/
994895474/five-fingers-crush-the-land

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/22/
nobody-wants-this-job-now-the-gentle-leaders-of-chinas-uighur-exiles

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/29/
china-uyghur-muslim-surveillance-police/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/24/
jewish-leaders-use-holocaust-day-to-decry-persecution-of-uighurs

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/
uighur-xinjiang-re-education-camp-china-gulbahar-haitiwaji

2020

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/09/
being-young-leads-to-detention-in-chinas-xingiang-region

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/221120/
dans-les-camps-chinois-l-enfer-des-ouighours

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/221120/
gulbahar-jalilova-rescapee-ouighoure-
nous-ne-sommes-pas-des-etres-humains-pour-eux

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/25/
world/asia/xinjiang-china-religious-site.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/
china-has-built-380-internment-camps-in-xinjiang-study-finds

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/18/
clues-to-scale-of-xinjiang-labour-operation-emerge-as-china-defends-camps

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=qc4hwH0TmSo - video - Guardian - 9 September 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/sep/08/
the-memories-never-leave-me-
uighur-teacher-describes-forced-sterilisation-video-interview

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/21/
the-perfect-uighur-outgoing-and-hard-working-but-still-not-safe-from-chinas-camps

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/
why-concentration-camps-are-still-with-us

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/aug/07/
why-concentration-camps-are-still-with-us-podcast

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/
800118582/i-thought-it-would-be-safe-uighurs-in-turkey-now-fear-china-s-long-arm

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/
china-transferred-detained-uighurs-to-factories-used-by-global-brands-report

2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/sep/23/
footage-blindfolded-shackled-prisoners-china-video

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/07/
720608802/reporters-notebook-
uighurs-held-for-extremist-thoughts-they-didnt-know-they-had

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/apr/22/
chinas-hi-tech-war-on-its-muslim-minority-
podcast

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/11/
china-hi-tech-war-on-muslim-minority-xinjiang-uighurs-surveillance-face-recognition

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/
if-you-enter-a-camp-you-never-come-out-inside-chinas-war-on-islam

2018

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/13/
666287509/ex-detainee-describes-torture-in-chinas-xinjiang-re-education-camp

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/07/
why-uighur-muslims-across-china-are-living-in-fear

concentration camp / mass internment camps        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/
why-concentration-camps-are-still-with-us

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/aug/07/
why-concentration-camps-are-still-with-us-
podcast

propaganda        USA

https://www.propublica.org/article/
how-china-uses-youtube-and-twitter-
to-spread-its-propaganda-version-of-life-for-uyghurs-in-xinjiang - June 23, 2021

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