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Tiananmen Square, Uyghur Court: Tower Hamlets plans name changes in solidarity

The Chinese embassy is to be relocated to the East End of London, Tower Hamlets.

The councillors said they welcomed the relocation of the embassy from the West End but “we must continue to make clear where our own standards and principles apply”.

The motion which proposed to rename roads and buildings in the surrounding area of the site Tiananmen Square, Uyghur Court, Hong Kong Road and Tibet Hill was passed. This showed “support for the freedom and diversity of our borough”.

The repression of Uighur Muslims is particularly sensitive for Tower Hamlets, which has the highest proportion of Muslim residents (38%) of any borough.

Source: The Guardian #Mar19

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/19/uyghur-court-hong-kong-road-tower-hamlets-plans-name-changes-in-solidarity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#TowerHamlets #London #UK #ChineseEmbassy #Uighur #UighurMuslim
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The US has accused Communist China of genocide against the #Uighur in Xinjiang. What's really happening behind the scenes? Will the US and Western democracies finally stand up to #CCP violation and intrusion?

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Germany is supplying Uighur ‘gulag’ in Xinjiang

German companies are supplying the technical backbone for the vast textile industry in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where at least half a million members of the persecuted Uighur minority have allegedly been forced to labour in the cotton fields.

Leaked trade figures from the Chinese customs authority underline the extent of Germany’s commercial entanglement in the region despite numerous claims of human rights abuses and “cultural genocide”.

Source: Times #Feb19

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-is-supplying-uighur-gulag-in-xinjiang-n3lqv7vmc

#Germany #Uighur #Xinjiang #HumanRights
‘We don’t know if he is alive’: Uighur woman speaks out on jailing of father in Xinjiang
 

The last time Jewher Ilham’s family saw her father, he had lost 40 pounds and his hair had turned grey.

“He used to be a pretty chubby man and now he has nothing. And all his hair turned grey. But other than that he looked okay. He’s a very strong person, I mean a mentally strong person, or at least that is what I knew of my father. And I hope he can remain the same.”

Ilham Tohti, Jewher’s father (Jewher is an Uighur, a Turkic ethnic group whom take their father’s first name as their surname), is a former economics lecturer from Minzu University, Beijing.
 
Source: Irish Times #Apr29

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/asia-pacific/we-don-t-know-if-he-is-alive-uighur-woman-speaks-out-on-jailing-of-father-in-xinjiang-1.4551124

#Uighur #Xinjiang #China #Beijing
Fraud, force and genocide: An extraordinary day in the annals of Australia’s national life

Genocidal? Who, us? It was an extraordinary day in the annals of Australia’s national life. China’s representative in Australia opened his home to reporters on Wednesday to persuade them that the Beijing government wanted only the best for its Uighur ethnic minority in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.

The government of the US, the parliaments of Canada and the Netherlands and Britain’s House of Lords have damned China’s treatment of its Uighur people as the gravest possible crime against humanity – genocide. Neither Australia’s government nor Parliament has done so. Yet.

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald #Apr10

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/fraud-force-and-genocide-an-extraordinary-day-in-the-annals-of-australia-s-national-life-20210409-p57hyy.html

#Australia #Beijing #Uighur #Xinjiang
#WolfWarrior #Disinformation
Chinese #ForeignMinister tells Germans ‘you know what #genocide looks like’

//It is estimated that 1 million Uighurs have been detained in so-called re-education camps in Xinjiang.

China’s Foreign Minister #WangYi rejected academic research detailing the abuses, including forced labour and forced sterilisations of women.

#Uighur women who have been detained in the camps have detailed systemic rape, abuse and torture. China has refused to allow independent investigators into the camps and denies any abuses are taking place.

“There is no forced labour in China,” Wang said. “There’s no such thing [as] concentration camps in #Xinjiang.”

“And there’s no such thing as genocide - our European friends know what is genocide,” he said, referring to the Holocaust when Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews during World War II.

#Buetikofer, who leads the European Parliament’s China delegation, was one of the politicians sanctioned.

Buetikofer described as reckless Wang’s attempts to use the Holocaust to dismiss claims of crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.

“Wang Yi basically tells us ‘shut up, you shouldn’t talk’.

“The Holocaust should not be used as a diplomatic football for rhetorical gains,” he told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

“The fact of the matter is that it has been precisely because of our wretched history that we have built our democracies and European Union on the basis of adherence to human rights and the rule of law. For us it is an historic obligation.

“If this People’s Republic of China had nothing to hide, they would open up and allow a full independent investigation; no amount of aggressive wolf-warrior diplomacy will obscure the fact that they still have not done so,” he said.//

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https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/chinese-foreign-minister-tells-germans-you-know-what-genocide-looks-like-20210526-p57vdy.html

Source: Sydney Morning Herald #May27
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“People are beginning to look at what is happening, the genocide that is being carried out against the #Uighur Muslims.They are seeing what has happened to the #HongKong freedom fighters and how China has broken its word with Hong Kong.” --#SenMarshaBlackburn

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China ‘threatens families to silence Uighur exiles in Britain’

Uighurs in the UK are being intimidated into silence by Chinese authorities as the “long arm” of the repressive regime reaches exiles in Europe, a report has found.

Thousands of members of the minority group who left China to live in western democracies are feared to be censoring themselves out of concern for the safety of their families. Those who dare to speak out about human rights abuses in their home country say they face threats from officials as well as pressure to inform on their expatriate communities.

Source: The Times #Feb10

https://t.co/e7Rx2MRJMF

#China #UK #Uighur #Longarm