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#AmnestyInternational: #China has "created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale" in #Xinjiang

//“The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” said Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

“Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities face crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations that threaten to erase their religious and cultural identities."

“It should shock the conscience of humanity that massive numbers of people have been subjected to brainwashing, torture and other degrading treatment in internment camps, while millions more live in fear amid a vast surveillance apparatus.”

From the moment they entered the prison-like internment camps, detainees’ lives were extraordinarily regimented. They had no privacy or autonomy, and they faced harsh punishments – sometimes collectively with their cellmates – for trivial disobedience. Internees were forbidden to speak freely to each other, and they were severely punished when they responded to prison guards or other officials in their native tongues instead of Mandarin. Every activity in the detainees’ daily routine was pre-ordained and their behaviour was constantly monitored and evaluated....

Every former detainee Amnesty International interviewed suffered torture or other ill-treatment.

This included the cumulative psychological effect of their daily dehumanization, as well as physical torture in the form of beatings, electric shocks, solitary confinement, deprivation of food, water and sleep, exposure to extreme cold, and the abusive use of restraints, including torture tools like tiger chairs. Some reported being restrained in a tiger chair for 24 hours or more...

The Chinese government has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up its violations of international human rights law in Xinjiang. Authorities threaten, detain and mistreat anyone who speaks out...//

Read full article:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/china-draconian-repression-of-muslims-in-xinjiang-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity/

Source: Amnesty International #Jun10

Image by Molly Crabapple

#Uyghurs #ConcentrationCamp #CCP #AgainstHumanity #Torture #Rape #MassSurveillance
#Uyghurs
France probes fashion retailers for concealing 'crimes against humanity' in #Xinjiang

//French prosecutors have opened an investigation into four fashion retailers suspected of concealing "crimes against humanity" in China's Xinjiang region, a judicial source said on Thursday.

The procedure is linked to accusations against China over its treatment of minority Muslim Uyghurs in the region, including the use of forced labour, the source said.

The source told Reuters #Uniqlo France, a unit of Japan's Fast Retailing (9983.T), #Zara owner Inditex (ITX.MC), France's #SMCP (SMCP.PA) and #Skechers (SKX.N) were the subject of the investigation, confirming a report by French media website Mediapart.//

Read more:
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/france-investigate-fashion-retailers-concealing-crimes-against-humanity-xinjiang-2021-07-01/

Source: Reuters #Jul2

#XinjiangCotton #ConcentrationCamp #HumanitarianCrisis #Genocide
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A little bit of old news but congratulations to Buzzfeed News (@buzzfeednews).

I urge you to look at their 4-part investigative report which detailed the camps through satellite images.

PS: buzzfeed and buzzfeed news are separate so don’t don’t dismiss it just because of the name!
PPS: for wumaos - the prize were also given to individuals/agency that exposed American issues too. Just shove that “biased” argument up your ass please. Thank you.

#closethecamps #CCP #China #Uyghur #muslim #concentrationcamp #humanrights #uyghurlivesmatter
#journalism #meme #english
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clearly we have a different definition of "terrorist".. *Cues Taliban-China relationship*

#CCP #China #Taliban #Uyghur #stopughurgenocide #concentrationcamp #genocide #muslim
#Genocide
'Some are just
#psychopaths': Chinese detective in exile reveals extent of torture against #Uyghurs

//The ex-detective turned #whistleblower asked to be identified only as Jiang, to protect his family members who remain in China.

In a three-hour interview with CNN, conducted in Europe where he is now in exile, Jiang revealed rare details on what he described as a systematic campaign of torture against ethnic Uyghurs in the region's detention camp system, claims China has denied for years.

"Kick them, beat them (until they're) bruised and swollen," Jiang said, recalling how he and his colleagues used to interrogate detainees in police detention centers. "Until they kneel on the floor crying."

The methods included shackling people to a metal or wooden "tiger chair" -- chairs designed to immobilize suspects -- hanging people from the ceiling, sexual violence, electrocutions, and waterboarding. Inmates were often forced to stay awake for days, and denied food and water, he said.

"Everyone uses different methods. Some even use a wrecking bar, or iron chains with locks," Jiang said. "Police would step on the suspect's face and tell him to confess."

The suspects were accused of terror offenses, said Jiang, but he believes that "none" of the hundreds of prisoners he was involved in arresting had committed a crime. "They are ordinary people," he said.//

//...During the routine overnight operations, Jiang said they would be given lists of names of people to round up, as part of orders to meet official quotas on the numbers of Uyghurs to detain.

"It's all planned, and it has a system," Jiang said. "Everyone needs to hit a target."

If anyone resisted arrest, the police officers would "hold the gun against his head and say do not move. If you move, you will be killed."

He said teams of police officers would also search people's houses and download the data from their computers and phones.

Another tactic was to use the area's neighborhood committee to call the local population together for a meeting with the village chief, before detaining them en masse.

Describing the time as a "combat period," Jiang said officials treated Xinjiang like a war zone, and police officers were told that Uyghurs were enemies of the state.

He said it was common knowledge among police officers that 900,000 Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities were detained in the region in a single year.

Jiang said if he had resisted the process, he would have been arrested, too.

Inside the police detention centers, the main goal was to extract a confession from detainees, with sexual torture being one of the tactics, Jiang said.

"If you want people to confess, you use the electric baton with two sharp tips on top," Jiang said. "We would tie two electrical wires on the tips and set the wires on their genitals while the person is tied up."

He admitted he often had to play "bad cop" during interrogations but said he avoided the worst of the violence, unlike some of his colleagues.

"Some people see this as a job, some are just psychopaths," he said.

One "very common measure" of torture and dehumanization was for guards to order prisoners to rape and abuse the new male inmates, Jiang said.//

Read the full article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/04/china/xinjiang-detective-torture-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

Source: CNN #Oct4

#Torture #Rape #GangRape #HumanitarianCrisis #Chinazi #ConcentrationCamp #Xinjiang
#Astrocity
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Hmm Halloween is around the corner … came across anything scary yet? Have you read/listen to the accounts of forced labour, torture, rape and genocide in Xinjiang China? That tops the list.

#CCP #China #xinjiang #uyghurgenocide #concentrationcamp #chinazi #stopuyghurgenocide
Over 50 British Muslim organizations protested outside the Chinese embassy in London and the Chinese consulate in Manchester, demanding the CCP halt its genocidal policies and close down the concentration camps immediately in the Uyghur region.

Source: IG @rfauyghur
#Uyghurs #新疆 #ConcentrationCamp #集中營 #UyghurGenocide #種族滅絕 #FreeUyghurs #evilCCP #SayNotToChina
Protest March Rally from Golden Gate Bridge to Chinese Consulate on February 3rd, 2022, Thursday starting from morning 10.00 a.m against “NO BEIJING OLYMPIC 2022”. We the organizing team request and urge everyone to take part and PLEDGE NOT TO WATCH OLYMPICS.

#iWillNotWatch #nobeijing2022 #nobeijingolympic2022 #NoRightsNoGames #humanrights #uyghurs #genocide #olympics #北京冬奧 #杯葛2022北京冬奧 #解放西藏 #CCPvirus #NeverTrustCCP #chinaliedpeopledied #新疆 #ConcentrationCamp #集中營 #evilCCP #SayNotToChina #光復香港

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Leaked list reveals details of over 10,000 #Uyghurs detained in China’s #Xinjiang province

//Researchers estimate over one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in a secretive network of detention centres and prisons, ostensibly as part of an anti-terrorism campaign after a series of attacks.

Yet information on the crackdown in Xinjiang region -- and those who have been ensnared by it -- is closely guarded by China's Communist authorities.

The previously unreported database, which has been seen by AFP, lists over 10,000 imprisoned Uyghurs from southwestern Xinjiang's Konasheher county.

A second suspected leaked police database seen by AFP identifies another 18,000 Uyghurs, mostly from Kashgar and Aksu prefectures, detained between 2008 and 2015...//

Read more:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220513-china-database-reveals-the-thousands-detained-in-xinjiang

Source: AFP; Hong Kong Fress Press #May14
https://hongkongfp.com/2022/05/14/leaked-list-reveals-details-of-over-10000-uyghurs-detained-in-chinas-xinjiang-province/

#Chinazi #ConcentrationCamp #Genocide #CCP
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China using families as 'hostages' to quash Uyghur dissent abroad

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-66337328

According to BBC, China is forcing Uyghurs in UK to spy on each other by keeping their relatives as hostages. Some Uyghurs are given money pay for meals for campaign leaders in order to stay close to them. They are also instructed to register companies as cover-ups. Several companies are already set up for that purpose.

This strategy is also used at American activist Julie Millsap, who is married to a Han Chinese. She would receive phone calls from her sister-in-law, threatening them that their child will become orphan.

The US Gov't is starting to address this matter seriously and introduce the Transnational Regression Policy Act. However, it is questionable whether this act will help restrict China from its coercion.

#ccpisterrorist #EvilCCP #standwithuyghur #Uyghurs #ConcentrationCamp #Genocide #FreeUyghurs