A third Uyghur we read about at our protest was Kamile Wayit, who last year became one of 40 individuals listed by the European Parliament as unjustly imprisoned in China. Arrested when she was a 19-year-old student studying preschool education, she was sentenced for "advocating extremism" after sharing a video of a protest. The protest was held because 10 people had been killed by a fire in a locked Urumqi apartment building.
The recent deportation of 40 Uyghur refugees from Thailand to China is similar to the deportations in 2015. It shows that no matter who is in power in Thailand, they are eager to seek favours from Beijing
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/08/nx-s1-5321404/opinion-thailand-china-uyghurs
#Thailand condemned for ‘shameful’ mass deportation of #Uyghur refugees to #China - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/03/thailand-condemned-for-shameful-mass-deportation-of-uyghur-refugees-to-china "Amid claims that deportees may face torture, family of one man say he was forcibly repatriated and will never see his children again" #uyghurgenocide
Uyghurs are being overlooked and misheard for a long time, and this is the evident result of such treatment
and UN leaders (Gutierres & co) are complicit in this because they had the option to save them - they didn't https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2024/05/02/un-declined-offers-assist-uyghur-asylum-seekers-detained-thailand
"The Thai government should have protected these men, but instead it has wilfully exposed them to these grave risks. In doing so it has ignored pleas from Amnesty International and United Nations experts who urged it not to violate the internationally and domestically recognized principle of non-refoulement. And this just as Thailand has been elected to the UN Human Rights Council." - Sarah Brooks, Amnesty International
The US Department of State has issued a statement strongly condemning Thailand’s forced return of at least 40 Uyghurs to China
https://www.state.gov/on-thailands-forced-return-of-uyghurs-to-china/
40 Uyghurs who have been detained in Bangkok for a decade were deported to China. The deportations were shrouded in secrecy and it is the first time Thailand has deported Uyghurs since 2015
I have stronger connections with the small #Uyghur, #Tibetan and #Palestinian diasporas in Japan than than I do with fellow Americans...
Imagine having your home address splattered all over the internet. Meryem, an activist living in the US, knows exactly what that’s like. She faces relentless online harassment from Chinese state-backed trolls as she fights for #Uyghur rights. Her fight is made even harder because she is a woman. Learn about the price she’s paid: https://citizenlab.ca/case-studies/meryem-a-human-rights-activist-from-xinjiang-china/ #digitaltransnationalrepression
The Chinese government maintains severe restrictions on Uyghur people travelling abroad and on Uyghur diaspora returning to visit their families
"Through these controlled visits and tours, the Chinese government has continued to control the Uyghur diaspora, some of whom stay silent or shun activism and even Uyghur cultural activities in hopes of resuming contact with their families and visiting the region."
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/03/china-travel-uyghurs-heavily-restricted
Listened to a quite good podcast about #energy in #China with an academic expert. But the last question was on #Uyghur #forcedlabor and he answered it like it was a compliance issue, something to be managed.
I realized, though, that's how a lot of people see many #humanrights issues. As a risk to be managed or avoided. Not a moral imperative and an issue that, frankly, should be front and central to any supply chain discussion on #cleanenergy
Australia is allowing thousands of imports from Chinese companies blacklisted by the US over alleged links to forced Uyghur labour
Speaking at a workshop today, and the speaker after me is presenting in #Uyghur.
The CCP doesn't just rewrite history, it prevents it from ever being written
"Continuing to whitewash and doctor the historical record will inevitably form the foundation of the CCP’s future propaganda strategy on East Turkistan."
https://uhrp.org/insights/future-ccp-propaganda-versus-no-one-dared-to-mention-the-dead/
Great to see that the latest report from #Japan's Renewable Energy Institute specifically mentions both #Uyghur #forcedlabor & #coal intensity as concerns with #China's dominance of global #Solar
One of the first times a #climate/#energy group in Japan, as far as I know, has raised this. Not surprised its REI, the most independent & expert led such org.
https://www.renewable-ei.org/en/activities/reports/20241218.php
#Uyghur fighters in #Syria vow to come for #China next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DRzaZiI8_Q
Turkistan Islamic Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party #TIP #jihadism #alkaida #terrorism
‘Italian’ purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes
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