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China's still building detention camps in Xinjiang — and they're getting even bigger
By Michael Walsh
Posted Yesterday at 9:59am, updated 2hhours ago
This large high-security facility in Xinjiang only opened in January 2020.(Maxar Via Google Earth)
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China appears to be expanding its network of secret detention facilities for Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, despite official claims that all detainees have been released from the camps.
Key points:
Researchers for ASPI's International Cyber Policy Centre have used satellite imagery to locate and analyse a total of 380 suspected detention facilities in Xinjiang.
'Arrest by algorithm'
The China Cables leak of highly classified documents reveals the scale of Beijing's repressive control over Xinjiang, where more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups are detained.
Read more
And despite Beijing's claim late last year that all detainees had "graduated" from the facilities, the thinktank said major detention camps were still in operation across Xinjiang.
"Our satellite evidence showed … at least 60 camps saw construction, and at least 14 remain under construction as of the latest satellite imagery available," ASPI researcher Nathan Ruser told the ABC.
'A germ of truth' in China's claim
Low-security re-education camps, like this one in Kashgar shown as a 3D rendering, may be on the way out.(Supplied: Australian Strategic Policy Institute)
Despite denying the existence of the camps for years, Chinese officials later took to describing the detention facilities as "vocational education and training centres", where would-be terrorists were to be reformed and turned into productive members of society.
However, survivors, family members and camp whistleblowers have told a very different story, describing a system of arbitrary detention, political indoctrination, human rights abuses and forced labour.
Xinjiang families torn apart
China's mass internment of its ethnic Uyghur population appears to be the largest imprisonment of people on the basis of religion since the Holocaust.
Read more
In a surprise twist, local officials announced in December 2019 that all detainees had in fact "graduated" from the centres, a claim activists and human rights groups were quick to dispute.
"The idea that they've released everyone, and that there's no people currently extrajudicially detained in Xinjiang, is quite ludicrous … there's so many people that still have no news of their families that were detained," Mr Ruser said.
However, the "graduation" story has persisted, with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi repeating it last month while visiting France.
In their analysis of the detention system, ASPI divided the 380 facilities it detected via satellite into four tiers based on the level of security at the sites.
Foreign journalists and diplomats have in recent years been given tours of "Tier 1" camps.(Reuters: Ben Blanchard)
Tier 1 facilities are the least secure: they're often former school buildings that were converted into detention centres through the construction of internal fencing and perimeter walls.
These are the facilities foreign journalists have previously been allowed to visit on guided tours. They appear to be mostly focused on political re-education, as opposed to some of the more prison-like facilities in the higher tiers.
But according to ASPI's monitoring of satellite imagery, it seemed many of these facilities have been "desecuritised", and in some cases appeared to be decommissioned altogether.
Tier 1 and 2 camps often have internal fencing, which is visible from satellite, and limit movement between buildings.(Supplied: Australian Strategic Policy Institute)
Internal fencing, barbed wire and external perimeter walls had been removed from many Tier 1 and Tier 2 facilities.
"So there seems to be a germ of truth perhaps in [China's "graduation" claim"], in that a lot of people in the lower-security camps do appear to have been released, and this is corroborated by victim testimony as well," Mr Ruser said.
"However, that's only a small part of the detention regime."
'Prison-style' camps may be on the rise
Some camps with guard towers, high walls and other security features are being expanded.(Reuters: Thomas Peter)
At the same time that some of the lower tier facilities were being wound back, ASPI said "prison-style" Tier 3 and 4 facilities have undergone significant new construction and expansion.
Tier 3 and 4 facilities are purely focused on the detention of prisoners, and feature high concrete walls, extensive barbed wire, watch towers and are often arranged in cell blocks.
ASPI's research found that most of the 14 facilities still under construction in Xinjiang in 2020 were prisons, and around half of the 61 facilities that received recent construction work have been high-security camps.
A 3D rendering of a newly-built prison in Markit county, Xinjiang. It is larger and more secure than prisons in the region have typically been.(Supplied: Australian Strategic Policy Institute)
The thinktank said this may suggest a shift toward "higher-security prison-style facilities", as opposed to the low-security re-education centres.
Urumqi ten years on
The 2009 riots that led to some of China's worst ethnic violence and set the wheels in motion for today's internment camps in Xinjiang began in the most unlikely of places: a toy factory.
Read more
A Chinese Government White Paper on the camps released last year said the facilities "can effectively eradicate the conditions that enable terrorism and religious extremism to breed and spread".
Asked about the research and whether Beijing was still investing in detention facilities in Xinjiang, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin denied that the detention camps ever existed in the first place.
"There was never any 'detention camp' in Xinjiang," Mr Wang said.
The spokesperson went on to label ASPI as being "imbued with ideological prejudice" and "practically an anti-China 'vanguard'", which he accused of publishing "fact-distorting reports on China".
Beijing often attributes criticism of its Xinjiang policies from Western governments and rights groups to "ideological prejudice" and "double standards".
In addition to the new research, ASPI launched an interactive website to make its data on Xinjiang's detention camps accessible to the public.
The Xinjiang Data Project went live Thursday afternoon, and features ASPI's detention camp database, maps and satellite imagery.
"Largely it will be an interactive map, that allows you to sort of explore all the datapoints we found for the detention camps and a number of other elements of Xinjiang's crackdown," Mr Ruser said.
He said the plan is for the database to continue to grow, and for the Xinjiang Data Project to be "a living site that will keep being updated with analysis and data sets".
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By Michael Walsh
Posted Yesterday at 9:59am, updated 2hhours ago
This large high-security facility in Xinjiang only opened in January 2020.(Maxar Via Google Earth)
Share
China appears to be expanding its network of secret detention facilities for Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, despite official claims that all detainees have been released from the camps.
Key points:
- A thinktank says it has identified 380 of China's detention camps in Xinjiang
- It says at least 60 camps have been expanded, and 14 are still under construction
- China says all detainees "graduated" from the facilities late last year
Researchers for ASPI's International Cyber Policy Centre have used satellite imagery to locate and analyse a total of 380 suspected detention facilities in Xinjiang.
'Arrest by algorithm'
The China Cables leak of highly classified documents reveals the scale of Beijing's repressive control over Xinjiang, where more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups are detained.
Read more
And despite Beijing's claim late last year that all detainees had "graduated" from the facilities, the thinktank said major detention camps were still in operation across Xinjiang.
"Our satellite evidence showed … at least 60 camps saw construction, and at least 14 remain under construction as of the latest satellite imagery available," ASPI researcher Nathan Ruser told the ABC.
More than 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities are believed to have been detained in Xinjiang's sprawling camp system since the security crackdown there began in 2017.
'A germ of truth' in China's claim
Low-security re-education camps, like this one in Kashgar shown as a 3D rendering, may be on the way out.(Supplied: Australian Strategic Policy Institute)
Despite denying the existence of the camps for years, Chinese officials later took to describing the detention facilities as "vocational education and training centres", where would-be terrorists were to be reformed and turned into productive members of society.
However, survivors, family members and camp whistleblowers have told a very different story, describing a system of arbitrary detention, political indoctrination, human rights abuses and forced labour.
Xinjiang families torn apart
China's mass internment of its ethnic Uyghur population appears to be the largest imprisonment of people on the basis of religion since the Holocaust.
Read more
In a surprise twist, local officials announced in December 2019 that all detainees had in fact "graduated" from the centres, a claim activists and human rights groups were quick to dispute.
"The idea that they've released everyone, and that there's no people currently extrajudicially detained in Xinjiang, is quite ludicrous … there's so many people that still have no news of their families that were detained," Mr Ruser said.
However, the "graduation" story has persisted, with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi repeating it last month while visiting France.
But now there may also be satellite evidence contradicting China's claim.
In their analysis of the detention system, ASPI divided the 380 facilities it detected via satellite into four tiers based on the level of security at the sites.
Foreign journalists and diplomats have in recent years been given tours of "Tier 1" camps.(Reuters: Ben Blanchard)
Tier 1 facilities are the least secure: they're often former school buildings that were converted into detention centres through the construction of internal fencing and perimeter walls.
These are the facilities foreign journalists have previously been allowed to visit on guided tours. They appear to be mostly focused on political re-education, as opposed to some of the more prison-like facilities in the higher tiers.
But according to ASPI's monitoring of satellite imagery, it seemed many of these facilities have been "desecuritised", and in some cases appeared to be decommissioned altogether.
Tier 1 and 2 camps often have internal fencing, which is visible from satellite, and limit movement between buildings.(Supplied: Australian Strategic Policy Institute)
Internal fencing, barbed wire and external perimeter walls had been removed from many Tier 1 and Tier 2 facilities.
"So there seems to be a germ of truth perhaps in [China's "graduation" claim"], in that a lot of people in the lower-security camps do appear to have been released, and this is corroborated by victim testimony as well," Mr Ruser said.
"However, that's only a small part of the detention regime."
'Prison-style' camps may be on the rise
Some camps with guard towers, high walls and other security features are being expanded.(Reuters: Thomas Peter)
At the same time that some of the lower tier facilities were being wound back, ASPI said "prison-style" Tier 3 and 4 facilities have undergone significant new construction and expansion.
Tier 3 and 4 facilities are purely focused on the detention of prisoners, and feature high concrete walls, extensive barbed wire, watch towers and are often arranged in cell blocks.
ASPI's research found that most of the 14 facilities still under construction in Xinjiang in 2020 were prisons, and around half of the 61 facilities that received recent construction work have been high-security camps.
A 3D rendering of a newly-built prison in Markit county, Xinjiang. It is larger and more secure than prisons in the region have typically been.(Supplied: Australian Strategic Policy Institute)
The thinktank said this may suggest a shift toward "higher-security prison-style facilities", as opposed to the low-security re-education centres.
Chinese officials have consistently defended the country's detention policies in Xinjiang, describing the centres as being a core part of China's fight against terrorism and religious extremism.
Urumqi ten years on
The 2009 riots that led to some of China's worst ethnic violence and set the wheels in motion for today's internment camps in Xinjiang began in the most unlikely of places: a toy factory.
Read more
A Chinese Government White Paper on the camps released last year said the facilities "can effectively eradicate the conditions that enable terrorism and religious extremism to breed and spread".
Asked about the research and whether Beijing was still investing in detention facilities in Xinjiang, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Wang Wenbin denied that the detention camps ever existed in the first place.
"There was never any 'detention camp' in Xinjiang," Mr Wang said.
The spokesperson went on to label ASPI as being "imbued with ideological prejudice" and "practically an anti-China 'vanguard'", which he accused of publishing "fact-distorting reports on China".
Beijing often attributes criticism of its Xinjiang policies from Western governments and rights groups to "ideological prejudice" and "double standards".
In addition to the new research, ASPI launched an interactive website to make its data on Xinjiang's detention camps accessible to the public.
The Xinjiang Data Project went live Thursday afternoon, and features ASPI's detention camp database, maps and satellite imagery.
"Largely it will be an interactive map, that allows you to sort of explore all the datapoints we found for the detention camps and a number of other elements of Xinjiang's crackdown," Mr Ruser said.
He said the plan is for the database to continue to grow, and for the Xinjiang Data Project to be "a living site that will keep being updated with analysis and data sets".
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Uyghur father in Australia fears for his wife and children trapped in Xinjiang
Exclusive by Erin Handley
Posted SunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 8:21am, updated SunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 11:38am
Mamutjan Abdurehim has been silent about his wife's detention in Xinjiang for years. Now he's speaking out.(ABC News: Jack Fisher)
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Mamutjan Abdurehim hasn't been able to hug his wife or young children in almost five years.
Key points:
He's never spoken about his family's ordeal publicly before, hoping his silence might mean he could reunite in Australia with his wife Muherrem Ablet, his 10-year-old-daughter Muhlise and his five-year-old son Hikmet.
But a new development has "effectively crumbled" his hope of a quiet reunion. After years apart and fresh fears his wife has been incarcerated in one of China's mass internment camps, he's decided to speak out for the first time.
Mamutjan Abdurehim and his wife Muherrem Ablet with their two children in a restaurant in Malaysia in 2015, one of the last times they were together as a family.(Supplied)
The Sydneysider is a Uyghur, part of the Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic minority facing persecution in China.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been internationally condemned, including by Australia, for its detention and surveillance of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in the autonomous region of Xinjiang.
Allegations are rife about forced sterilisation of Uyghur women, forced labour in factories, and other measures amounting to what has been described as cultural genocide.
The Chinese Government has repeatedly denied its "vocational training centres" are concentration camps, and says the measures are necessary to counter what it calls extremism and terrorism.
Mr Abdurehim holds grave fears for his wife and two children in the city of Kashgar. But the lack of certainty about their fate is one of the most painful parts of their separation.
How the family was separated
The family of four lived in Malaysia for almost three years, between the start of 2013 and the end of 2015, while Mr Abdurehim was studying a doctorate degree at university.
Ms Ablet lost her passport and the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur issued her a one-off travel document, seen by the ABC, to go back to Xinjiang to renew it.
Muherrem Ablet and her two children in Kuala Lumpur, shortly before they returned to Kashgar.(Supplied)
At the time, this seemed like a normal procedure, Mr Abdurehim said. It didn't ring alarm bells. So in December of 2015, Ms Ablet travelled with the children back to Kashgar.
She was able to get a new passport relatively quickly in 2016, Mr Abdurehim said, but due to the family's financial situation she couldn't re-join him immediately in Malaysia.
In the months before the CCP's crackdown was fully-fledged, Ms Ablet indicated the situation was getting worse — she had been questioned by local authorities for wearing a hijab, and she started using facial expressions rather than words when she communicated with her husband.
Then, in April of 2017, Mr Abdurehim's parents told him his wife had been taken away.
His father, too, was detained for some time, according to Mr Abdurehim's mother.
"[My mother] told me not to call her anymore because receiving calls is dangerous … at that point in May [of 2017], she already knew that receiving calls from overseas would be one of the reasons to be to be taken away," he said.
Coming to Australia
Fearing for his safety in Malaysia, which had been accused of deporting Uyghurs in the past, Mr Abdurehim fled to Australia.
"China was aggressively recalling students through their family members back home," he said, adding there were reports of forced deportations in some countries.
From then on, he only got information about his family in snatches.
Mamutjan Abdurehim said he desperately wanted to know what had happened to his wife.(ABC News: Jack Fisher)
About two months after her detention, Ms Ablet contacted Mr Abdurehim briefly, saying she was home for a day, but would be detained again.
"She messaged me saying that: 'I will be gone, and so if I cannot message you again, just wait until I can contact you.'"
That's the last message Mr Abdurehim got from his wife, in June 2017.
She then deleted her husband from her contacts and social media.
It was a "stressful two years, being in the dark," Mr Abdurehim said. But there was a flicker of hope.
Fighting for their culture
China is perpetrating a "cultural genocide" against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but in Australia, they are dancing in defiance in a bid to save their culture.
Read more
In early May of 2019, he came across a video of his son posted to a relative's WeChat account. The last time Mr Abdurehim saw his son, he was six months old. Now, he was almost four.
In the video, seen by the ABC, the child says: "My mum has graduated!" looking at the sky in a state of euphoria.
"I could overhear her voice in the video," Mr Abdurehim said.
After begging an acquaintance for information, they confirmed she had been released.
Mr Abdurehim didn't hear from his wife, but he said he was at least comforted by the thought that she and his children were back together.
His relief was short-lived.
Coded messages hint at dire situation
Mr Abdurehim told the ABC he suspected his wife was re-arrested in 2019 and could be detained for up to five years.
China's frontier of fear
Satellite imagery lifts the lid on the size and spread of China's internment camps, used to indoctrinate vast numbers of the Xinjiang region's Muslim population.
Read more
The truth is, he doesn't know for sure, and he'd like to be proven wrong. But from his limited contact and gleaning messages through coded words, it's what he's come to expect.
Mr Abdurehim said phrases like "not at home" and "in hospital" were sometimes used to hint that a person had been detained in a re-education camp.
When he asked a contact, a close friend's relative who knows his family, "how old" his wife was, the response came back: five years.
He said the climate of fear fostered in Xinjiang meant it was difficult to get any reliable information about his family.
Contact with Uyghur family members overseas is well known as a reason to be targeted for re-education, according to Alim Osman, head of the Uyghur Association of Victoria.
Mr Osman said being unable to contact relatives was taking a toll on the mental health of the community in Australia.(ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser)
Mr Osman confirmed these kinds of coded words and emojis were used to convey information.
Australia urges China to 'cease arbitrary detention' of Uyghurs and other Muslims
The ABC's attempts to verify his wife's whereabouts, and if she has been charged with any crime or handed any sentence, were unsuccessful.
'Deeply disturbing'
Australia's Foreign Minister and members of the Uyghur community condemned a video that purports to show a mass transfer of Uyghur men — their heads freshly shaved —blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs in Xinjiang.
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Her name does not appear in relation to any legal case on China's Judicial Process Information website.
Emails to local government authorities and police in Kashgar went unanswered, and a Kashgar police officer hung up when they heard an ABC journalist was enquiring about a reported missing woman. They did not pick up further calls.
The Chinese embassy and consulates in Sydney and Melbourne did not respond to requests for comment by deadline, and calls to the media section rang out.
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has condemned China's treatment of the Uyghurs.(AP: Rick Rycroft)
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) spokesperson indicated there wasn't much the Australian Government could do in Mr Abdurehim's case, as he and his wife are not citizens.
"The support the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade can provide overseas to people who are not Australian citizens is very limited," they said in a statement.
"Under our bilateral consular agreement, China allows access only to Australian citizens who have entered China on an Australian passport."
They reiterated the "deep and growing concerns" Foreign Minister Marise Payne articulated earlier this month about human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
For Australia's Uyghur community, the not-knowing, and being cut off from contacting their loved ones, is part of their torment.
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"Sometimes we just feel hopeless and it's had a huge impact on our mental health and well-being," Mr Osman said.
"If they talk about it, their relatives back home will pay the price," he said.
"So when people come out to talk about what's happening, they will take a huge risk for themselves, even here, and back home as well."
Uyghur man Mamutjan Abdurehim has lived in Australia for three years and wants to be reunited with his wife and two young children, who are trapped in Xinjiang.(ABC News: Jack Fisher)
For Mr Abdurehim, the decision weighed heavily on him, but he felt compelled to speak out.
She picked up, but he could tell she was "extremely nervous". Speaking hastily, she said: "No, no, there were cadres at home."
Mr Abdurehim believes his children are being raised by his parents and in-laws. They have spent most of their young lives without their father present.
He wonders if his daughter can still read and write in the Uyghur language, or if those skills have faded at Chinese school.
Mr Abdurehim appealed to the Chinese authorities to release his wife, if she is in prison.
"Three years is too long for arbitrary detention of an innocent person based on religion or ethnicity," he said, let alone what he suspected was a longer detention for "imaginary crimes".
"She was just an ordinary woman like most of us, without any strong ideological convictions, and a kind mother of our two children.
"All I want is the freedom of my wife and children and the reunion of my family."
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Exclusive by Erin Handley
Posted SunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 8:21am, updated SunSunday 19 JulJuly 2020 at 11:38am
Mamutjan Abdurehim has been silent about his wife's detention in Xinjiang for years. Now he's speaking out.(ABC News: Jack Fisher)
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Mamutjan Abdurehim hasn't been able to hug his wife or young children in almost five years.
Key points:
- The Sydney resident has been separated from his wife and children for almost five years
- China is accused of forced sterilisation and abortions for Uyghur women
- Speaking out is risky for Uyghurs in Australia, and has a toll on mental health
He's never spoken about his family's ordeal publicly before, hoping his silence might mean he could reunite in Australia with his wife Muherrem Ablet, his 10-year-old-daughter Muhlise and his five-year-old son Hikmet.
But a new development has "effectively crumbled" his hope of a quiet reunion. After years apart and fresh fears his wife has been incarcerated in one of China's mass internment camps, he's decided to speak out for the first time.
Mamutjan Abdurehim and his wife Muherrem Ablet with their two children in a restaurant in Malaysia in 2015, one of the last times they were together as a family.(Supplied)
The Sydneysider is a Uyghur, part of the Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic minority facing persecution in China.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been internationally condemned, including by Australia, for its detention and surveillance of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in the autonomous region of Xinjiang.
Allegations are rife about forced sterilisation of Uyghur women, forced labour in factories, and other measures amounting to what has been described as cultural genocide.
The Chinese Government has repeatedly denied its "vocational training centres" are concentration camps, and says the measures are necessary to counter what it calls extremism and terrorism.
Mr Abdurehim holds grave fears for his wife and two children in the city of Kashgar. But the lack of certainty about their fate is one of the most painful parts of their separation.
"The core, the immediate family, is everything you have. Without them, you're like a dead person, just … you're lost."
How the family was separated
The family of four lived in Malaysia for almost three years, between the start of 2013 and the end of 2015, while Mr Abdurehim was studying a doctorate degree at university.
Ms Ablet lost her passport and the Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur issued her a one-off travel document, seen by the ABC, to go back to Xinjiang to renew it.
Muherrem Ablet and her two children in Kuala Lumpur, shortly before they returned to Kashgar.(Supplied)
At the time, this seemed like a normal procedure, Mr Abdurehim said. It didn't ring alarm bells. So in December of 2015, Ms Ablet travelled with the children back to Kashgar.
She was able to get a new passport relatively quickly in 2016, Mr Abdurehim said, but due to the family's financial situation she couldn't re-join him immediately in Malaysia.
In the months before the CCP's crackdown was fully-fledged, Ms Ablet indicated the situation was getting worse — she had been questioned by local authorities for wearing a hijab, and she started using facial expressions rather than words when she communicated with her husband.
Then, in April of 2017, Mr Abdurehim's parents told him his wife had been taken away.
His father, too, was detained for some time, according to Mr Abdurehim's mother.
"[My mother] told me not to call her anymore because receiving calls is dangerous … at that point in May [of 2017], she already knew that receiving calls from overseas would be one of the reasons to be to be taken away," he said.
Coming to Australia
Fearing for his safety in Malaysia, which had been accused of deporting Uyghurs in the past, Mr Abdurehim fled to Australia.
"China was aggressively recalling students through their family members back home," he said, adding there were reports of forced deportations in some countries.
From then on, he only got information about his family in snatches.
Mamutjan Abdurehim said he desperately wanted to know what had happened to his wife.(ABC News: Jack Fisher)
About two months after her detention, Ms Ablet contacted Mr Abdurehim briefly, saying she was home for a day, but would be detained again.
"She messaged me saying that: 'I will be gone, and so if I cannot message you again, just wait until I can contact you.'"
That's the last message Mr Abdurehim got from his wife, in June 2017.
She then deleted her husband from her contacts and social media.
It was a "stressful two years, being in the dark," Mr Abdurehim said. But there was a flicker of hope.
Fighting for their culture
China is perpetrating a "cultural genocide" against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but in Australia, they are dancing in defiance in a bid to save their culture.
Read more
In early May of 2019, he came across a video of his son posted to a relative's WeChat account. The last time Mr Abdurehim saw his son, he was six months old. Now, he was almost four.
In the video, seen by the ABC, the child says: "My mum has graduated!" looking at the sky in a state of euphoria.
"I could overhear her voice in the video," Mr Abdurehim said.
"At last he was able to see his mum after two years … I was a bit relieved. That was a clear indication of her release."
After begging an acquaintance for information, they confirmed she had been released.
Mr Abdurehim didn't hear from his wife, but he said he was at least comforted by the thought that she and his children were back together.
His relief was short-lived.
Coded messages hint at dire situation
Mr Abdurehim told the ABC he suspected his wife was re-arrested in 2019 and could be detained for up to five years.
China's frontier of fear
Satellite imagery lifts the lid on the size and spread of China's internment camps, used to indoctrinate vast numbers of the Xinjiang region's Muslim population.
Read more
The truth is, he doesn't know for sure, and he'd like to be proven wrong. But from his limited contact and gleaning messages through coded words, it's what he's come to expect.
Mr Abdurehim said phrases like "not at home" and "in hospital" were sometimes used to hint that a person had been detained in a re-education camp.
When he asked a contact, a close friend's relative who knows his family, "how old" his wife was, the response came back: five years.
"It effectively left my two children without parental care for the last three years and without me for five years."
He said the climate of fear fostered in Xinjiang meant it was difficult to get any reliable information about his family.
Contact with Uyghur family members overseas is well known as a reason to be targeted for re-education, according to Alim Osman, head of the Uyghur Association of Victoria.
Mr Osman said being unable to contact relatives was taking a toll on the mental health of the community in Australia.(ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser)
Mr Osman confirmed these kinds of coded words and emojis were used to convey information.
Mr Osman said others in the Uyghur community in Australia had heard about their family members being arrested a second time after a stint in a re-education camp, and that often meant they were being put to work under forced labour conditions in Xinjiang's factories.
Australia urges China to 'cease arbitrary detention' of Uyghurs and other Muslims
The ABC's attempts to verify his wife's whereabouts, and if she has been charged with any crime or handed any sentence, were unsuccessful.
'Deeply disturbing'
Australia's Foreign Minister and members of the Uyghur community condemned a video that purports to show a mass transfer of Uyghur men — their heads freshly shaved —blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs in Xinjiang.
Read more
Her name does not appear in relation to any legal case on China's Judicial Process Information website.
Emails to local government authorities and police in Kashgar went unanswered, and a Kashgar police officer hung up when they heard an ABC journalist was enquiring about a reported missing woman. They did not pick up further calls.
The Chinese embassy and consulates in Sydney and Melbourne did not respond to requests for comment by deadline, and calls to the media section rang out.
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has condemned China's treatment of the Uyghurs.(AP: Rick Rycroft)
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) spokesperson indicated there wasn't much the Australian Government could do in Mr Abdurehim's case, as he and his wife are not citizens.
"The support the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade can provide overseas to people who are not Australian citizens is very limited," they said in a statement.
"Under our bilateral consular agreement, China allows access only to Australian citizens who have entered China on an Australian passport."
They reiterated the "deep and growing concerns" Foreign Minister Marise Payne articulated earlier this month about human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
Compelled to speak out, despite the risks
For Australia's Uyghur community, the not-knowing, and being cut off from contacting their loved ones, is part of their torment.
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"Sometimes we just feel hopeless and it's had a huge impact on our mental health and well-being," Mr Osman said.
He said members of the Uyghur diaspora in Australia often didn't talk about their relatives being subjected to human rights abuses in China.
"If they talk about it, their relatives back home will pay the price," he said.
"So when people come out to talk about what's happening, they will take a huge risk for themselves, even here, and back home as well."
Uyghur man Mamutjan Abdurehim has lived in Australia for three years and wants to be reunited with his wife and two young children, who are trapped in Xinjiang.(ABC News: Jack Fisher)
For Mr Abdurehim, the decision weighed heavily on him, but he felt compelled to speak out.
After being almost incommunicado for two years, Mr Abdurehim dared to call his mother's home in August last year, during Eid, a holy Muslim festival.
She picked up, but he could tell she was "extremely nervous". Speaking hastily, she said: "No, no, there were cadres at home."
Mr Abdurehim believes his children are being raised by his parents and in-laws. They have spent most of their young lives without their father present.
He wonders if his daughter can still read and write in the Uyghur language, or if those skills have faded at Chinese school.
Mr Abdurehim appealed to the Chinese authorities to release his wife, if she is in prison.
"Three years is too long for arbitrary detention of an innocent person based on religion or ethnicity," he said, let alone what he suspected was a longer detention for "imaginary crimes".
"She was just an ordinary woman like most of us, without any strong ideological convictions, and a kind mother of our two children.
"All I want is the freedom of my wife and children and the reunion of my family."
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Posted 19 JulJuly 2020, updated 19 JulJuly 2020
Thousands of mosques in Xinjiang demolished in recent years: report - The Online Citizen
The Online Citizen
Chinese flags on barbed wired wall in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.
Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said Friday, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region.
Rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking people have been incarcerated in camps across the northwestern territory, with residents pressured to give up traditional and religious activities.
Around 16,000 mosques had been destroyed or damaged, according to a Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report based on satellite imagery documenting hundreds of sacred sites and statistical modelling.
Most of the destruction had taken place in the last three years and an estimated 8,500 mosques had been completely destroyed, the report said, with more damage outside the urban centres of Urumqi and Kashgar.
Many mosques that escaped demolition had their domes and minarets removed, according to the research, which estimated fewer than 15,500 intact and damaged mosques left standing around Xinjiang.
If correct, it would be the lowest number of Muslim houses of worship in the region since the decade of national upheaval sparked by the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.
By contrast, none of the Christian churches and Buddhist temples in Xinjiang that were studied by the think tank had been damaged or destroyed.
ASPI also said nearly a third of major Islamic sacred sites in Xinjiang — including shrines, cemeteries and pilgrimage routes — had been razed.
An AFP investigation last year found dozens of cemeteries had been destroyed in the region, leaving human remains and bricks from broken tombs scattered across the land.
China has insisted that residents of Xinjiang enjoy full religious freedom.
Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said last week that there were about 24,000 mosques in Xinjiang, a number that per person was “higher than that of many Muslim countries”.
Friday’s report comes a day after ASPI said it had identified a network of detention centres in the region much larger than previous estimates.
China has said its network of camps are vocational training centres, which are necessary for countering poverty and anti-extremism, while Wang said the institute’s research on the centres was “seriously questionable”.
– AFP
The Online Citizen
Chinese flags on barbed wired wall in Kashgar (Kashi), Xinjiang, China.
Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said Friday, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region.
Rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking people have been incarcerated in camps across the northwestern territory, with residents pressured to give up traditional and religious activities.
Around 16,000 mosques had been destroyed or damaged, according to a Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report based on satellite imagery documenting hundreds of sacred sites and statistical modelling.
Most of the destruction had taken place in the last three years and an estimated 8,500 mosques had been completely destroyed, the report said, with more damage outside the urban centres of Urumqi and Kashgar.
Many mosques that escaped demolition had their domes and minarets removed, according to the research, which estimated fewer than 15,500 intact and damaged mosques left standing around Xinjiang.
If correct, it would be the lowest number of Muslim houses of worship in the region since the decade of national upheaval sparked by the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.
By contrast, none of the Christian churches and Buddhist temples in Xinjiang that were studied by the think tank had been damaged or destroyed.
ASPI also said nearly a third of major Islamic sacred sites in Xinjiang — including shrines, cemeteries and pilgrimage routes — had been razed.
An AFP investigation last year found dozens of cemeteries had been destroyed in the region, leaving human remains and bricks from broken tombs scattered across the land.
China has insisted that residents of Xinjiang enjoy full religious freedom.
Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said last week that there were about 24,000 mosques in Xinjiang, a number that per person was “higher than that of many Muslim countries”.
Friday’s report comes a day after ASPI said it had identified a network of detention centres in the region much larger than previous estimates.
China has said its network of camps are vocational training centres, which are necessary for countering poverty and anti-extremism, while Wang said the institute’s research on the centres was “seriously questionable”.
– AFP
Chinese in malay archipelago themselves refuse to assimilate.
Chinese President Xi Jinping defends Xinjiang detention network, claiming 'happiness' is on the rise
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Chinese President Xi Jinping sits behind a gold-coloured curtain at a press conference
Mr Xi defended China's policy in Xinjiang, saying it was necessary to educate ethnic groups on "a correct perspective".(AP: Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
Chinese President Xi Jinping said levels of happiness among all ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang are rising and that China plans to keep teaching its residents a "correct" outlook on China, Xinhua news agency reported.
Key points:
President Xi said the Xinjiang policy was "correct" and had increased "happiness"
China appears to be expanding secret detention facilities for more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims
It says the camps are vocational training centres needed to tackle extremism
The comments come after a new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which found China's network of secret detention facilities appears to be expanding in Xinjiang.
China has come under scrutiny over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims and claims of alleged forced labour abuses in Xinjiang, where the United Nations cites credible reports that 1 million Muslims held in camps have been put to work.
China has repeatedly denied mistreating Uyghurs and says the camps are vocational training centres that are needed to tackle extremism, accusing what it calls anti-China forces of smearing its Xinjiang policy.
"The sense of gain, happiness, and security among the people of all ethnic groups [in Xinjiang] has continued to increase," Mr Xi told a ruling Communist Party conference on Xinjiang held on Friday and Saturday, Xinhua reported.
The ASPI report said this newly-built detention complex in Xinjiang could house over 10,000 people.(Maxar via Google Earth)
Mr Xi said it was necessary to educate Xinjiang's population on an understanding of the Chinese nation and guide "all ethnic groups on establishing a correct perspective on the country, history and nationality".
"Practice has shown that the party's strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era is completely correct" and it should be a long-term approach, he added.
The ASPI report estimated 16,000 mosques have been damaged or destroyed in Xinjiang, findings China's foreign ministry denied.
"Alongside other coercive efforts to re-engineer Uyghur social and cultural life by transforming or eliminating Uyghurs' language, music, homes and even diets, the Chinese Government's policies are actively erasing and altering key elements of their tangible cultural heritage," the ASPI report said.
Experts have described China's actions in the region as cultural genocide.
Uyghurs living abroad with family members trapped in the camp have reported a litany of human rights abuses, including forced labour and forced sterilisation.
Those living in Australia have shared their heartbreak at being separated from their loved ones and their fears for their wellbeing.
In July, the US-imposed sanctions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs under the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the US Government to target human rights violators by freezing any US assets, banning US travel and prohibiting Americans from doing business with them.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping sits behind a gold-coloured curtain at a press conference
Mr Xi defended China's policy in Xinjiang, saying it was necessary to educate ethnic groups on "a correct perspective".(AP: Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
Chinese President Xi Jinping said levels of happiness among all ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang are rising and that China plans to keep teaching its residents a "correct" outlook on China, Xinhua news agency reported.
Key points:
President Xi said the Xinjiang policy was "correct" and had increased "happiness"
China appears to be expanding secret detention facilities for more than 1 million Uyghur Muslims
It says the camps are vocational training centres needed to tackle extremism
The comments come after a new report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which found China's network of secret detention facilities appears to be expanding in Xinjiang.
China has come under scrutiny over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims and claims of alleged forced labour abuses in Xinjiang, where the United Nations cites credible reports that 1 million Muslims held in camps have been put to work.
China has repeatedly denied mistreating Uyghurs and says the camps are vocational training centres that are needed to tackle extremism, accusing what it calls anti-China forces of smearing its Xinjiang policy.
"The sense of gain, happiness, and security among the people of all ethnic groups [in Xinjiang] has continued to increase," Mr Xi told a ruling Communist Party conference on Xinjiang held on Friday and Saturday, Xinhua reported.
The ASPI report said this newly-built detention complex in Xinjiang could house over 10,000 people.(Maxar via Google Earth)
Mr Xi said it was necessary to educate Xinjiang's population on an understanding of the Chinese nation and guide "all ethnic groups on establishing a correct perspective on the country, history and nationality".
"Practice has shown that the party's strategy for governing Xinjiang in the new era is completely correct" and it should be a long-term approach, he added.
The ASPI report estimated 16,000 mosques have been damaged or destroyed in Xinjiang, findings China's foreign ministry denied.
"Alongside other coercive efforts to re-engineer Uyghur social and cultural life by transforming or eliminating Uyghurs' language, music, homes and even diets, the Chinese Government's policies are actively erasing and altering key elements of their tangible cultural heritage," the ASPI report said.
Experts have described China's actions in the region as cultural genocide.
Uyghurs living abroad with family members trapped in the camp have reported a litany of human rights abuses, including forced labour and forced sterilisation.
Those living in Australia have shared their heartbreak at being separated from their loved ones and their fears for their wellbeing.
In July, the US-imposed sanctions on Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs under the Global Magnitsky Act, which allows the US Government to target human rights violators by freezing any US assets, banning US travel and prohibiting Americans from doing business with them.
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Chinese policies could prevent millions of minority births in Xinjiang: report - The Online Citizen Asia
Chinese policies aimed specifically at reducing the population of mainly Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang could prevent the birth of around four million babies over the next two decades, new research has found.
Projections show reduced minority birthrates could raise the proportion of Han Chinese — a majority in the rest of China — from the current 8.4 percent to 25 percent in the region.
Beijing has for years sought to tighten its grip on the vast border area historically marked by economic inequality and sporadic outbreaks of unrest.
Millions of Han Chinese relocated to Xinjiang in recent decades to find work in the coal- and gas-rich region in a settlement drive that has caused friction on the ground.
German researcher Adrian Zenz said publicly available papers by Chinese security researchers blamed the density of minority communities as the “underlying reason” for unrest and proposed population control as a risk reduction method.
At the same time, documented official fears about the arid region’s lack of natural resources to support an influx of Han settlers suggest that Chinese authorities see birth suppression as a key tool for manipulating the area’s demographic makeup, Zenz said.
China last week announced a major reform of policy governing the number of children a couple can have, increasing it to three as the country grapples with an ageing population.
But scholars say Beijing does not view all babies as equally desirable in Xinjiang, and is actively pursuing a policy of decreasing the number of children born to ethnic minorities.
Strategies include ramped-up birth control policies in the region — including imprisonment for having too many children and claims of forced sterilisation.
Learn more
Focusing on four prefectures in southern Xinjiang and using models recommended by multiple Chinese scholars, Zenz calculated Beijing could aim to raise the number of Han in these “traditional Uyghur heartlands” to a quarter of the population.
Zenz said he found “an intent to reduce ethnic minority population growth in order to increase the proportionate Han population in southern Xinjiang”.
Official data shows Xinjiang’s birth rates nearly halved between 2017 and 2019 — the steepest drop of all Chinese regions and the most extreme globally since 1950, according to an analysis by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Zenz calculated the natural ethnic minority population growth in southern Xinjiang would have reached 13.14 million by 2040, but that suppression measures could prevent up to 4.5 million births among Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.
China has faced mounting international criticism over its policies in Xinjiang, where the United States says Beijing is committing genocide.
At least one million people from mostly Muslim minorities have been held in camps in the region, according to rights groups who also accuse authorities of imposing forced labour.
Beijing has hit back at the accusations, touting its counter-terrorism and economic achievements in Xinjiang, applying tit-for-tat sanctions, and supporting lawsuits against its loudest critics, including Zenz.
— AFP
Chinese policies aimed specifically at reducing the population of mainly Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang could prevent the birth of around four million babies over the next two decades, new research has found.
Projections show reduced minority birthrates could raise the proportion of Han Chinese — a majority in the rest of China — from the current 8.4 percent to 25 percent in the region.
Beijing has for years sought to tighten its grip on the vast border area historically marked by economic inequality and sporadic outbreaks of unrest.
Millions of Han Chinese relocated to Xinjiang in recent decades to find work in the coal- and gas-rich region in a settlement drive that has caused friction on the ground.
German researcher Adrian Zenz said publicly available papers by Chinese security researchers blamed the density of minority communities as the “underlying reason” for unrest and proposed population control as a risk reduction method.
At the same time, documented official fears about the arid region’s lack of natural resources to support an influx of Han settlers suggest that Chinese authorities see birth suppression as a key tool for manipulating the area’s demographic makeup, Zenz said.
China last week announced a major reform of policy governing the number of children a couple can have, increasing it to three as the country grapples with an ageing population.
But scholars say Beijing does not view all babies as equally desirable in Xinjiang, and is actively pursuing a policy of decreasing the number of children born to ethnic minorities.
Strategies include ramped-up birth control policies in the region — including imprisonment for having too many children and claims of forced sterilisation.
Learn more
Focusing on four prefectures in southern Xinjiang and using models recommended by multiple Chinese scholars, Zenz calculated Beijing could aim to raise the number of Han in these “traditional Uyghur heartlands” to a quarter of the population.
Zenz said he found “an intent to reduce ethnic minority population growth in order to increase the proportionate Han population in southern Xinjiang”.
Official data shows Xinjiang’s birth rates nearly halved between 2017 and 2019 — the steepest drop of all Chinese regions and the most extreme globally since 1950, according to an analysis by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
Zenz calculated the natural ethnic minority population growth in southern Xinjiang would have reached 13.14 million by 2040, but that suppression measures could prevent up to 4.5 million births among Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.
China has faced mounting international criticism over its policies in Xinjiang, where the United States says Beijing is committing genocide.
At least one million people from mostly Muslim minorities have been held in camps in the region, according to rights groups who also accuse authorities of imposing forced labour.
Beijing has hit back at the accusations, touting its counter-terrorism and economic achievements in Xinjiang, applying tit-for-tat sanctions, and supporting lawsuits against its loudest critics, including Zenz.
— AFP
The only terrorist and land grabbers are chinese
PAP did to malays 50 years ahead of what communist doing to xinjiang currently.
PAP did to malays 50 years ahead of what communist doing to xinjiang currently.
I wonder why there is no report on Christians being persecuted in mudslimes countries?
‘Hellscape’: Damning report exposes China
Amnesty International secretary-general Agnes Callamard said Chinese authorities have created “a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale”. Picture: Fabrice Coffrini/AFPSource:AFP
Experts believe China has detained as many as a million Uyghurs and other Muslims, and imprisoned hundreds of thousands more. Picture: Ozan Kose/AFPSource:AFP
Millions subjected to ‘severe violence and intimidation’
Common belief among experts is that China has detained as many as a million Uyghurs and other Muslims and imprisoned hundreds of thousands more people in its crackdown in Xinjiang, which began in 2017.
Amid reports of physical and psychological torture inside the detention camps, the Chinese government has also been accused of forced abortion, sterilisation and population transfer to reduce population density and reduce birthrates of minorities, and targeting religious leaders to break religious and cultural traditions.
While China initially denied the existence of the camps, it has since defended them as a “necessary measure against terrorism” following separatist violence in the Xinjiang region.
“For a period of time, the penetration of religious extremism made implementing family planning policy in southern Xinjiang, including Kashgar and Hotan prefectures, particularly difficult,” China Daily, a publication owned by the Chinese Communist Party, wrote in regard to study findings by the Xinjiang Development Research Centre in January.
“That led to rapid population growth in those areas as some extremists incited locals to resist family planning policy, resulting in the prevalence of early marriage and bigamy, and frequent unplanned births.”
One of China’s detention camps. Picture: Greg Baker/AFPSource:AFP
Keeping minorities in the camps display the government’s “clear intent to target parts of Xinjiang’s population collectively on the basis of religion and ethnicity”. Picture: Greg Baker/AFPSource:AFP
In its report, Amnesty International said counter-terrorism could not reasonably account for mass detention, with the government’s actions displaying a “clear intent to target parts of Xinjiang’s population collectively on the basis of religion and ethnicity and to use severe violence and intimidation to root out Islamic religious beliefs and Turkic Muslim ethno cultural practices”.
Those taken to the camps, the report said, were “subjected to a ceaseless indoctrination campaign as well as physical and psychological torture”.
Torture methods, according to those the organisation interviewed, included “beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, the unlawful use of restraints (including being locked in a tiger chair – a steel chair with leg irons and handcuffs designed to shackle the body in place), sleep deprivation, being hung from a wall, being subjected to extremely cold temperatures, and solitary confinement”.
‘Like we were enemies in a war’
Detainees described being in the camps as “like we were enemies in a war”, with Amnesty International reporting that the internment camp detention process “appears to be operating outside the scope of the Chinese criminal justice system or other domestic law”.
Many of those who had been put in detention told the organisation it wasn’t for a specific act – rather, they were informed they had been detained because they’d been classified as “suspicious” or “untrustworthy”; a “terrorist” or an “extremist”.
“Two guards took me from the cell and dropped me off [at the room where I was interrogated],” Mansur, a farmer, told Amnesty International.
“Two men were inside … If I told them I had been praying, I had heard that I would get sentenced for 20 or 25 years. So I told them I never prayed. Then they became upset … they hit me with a chair until it broke … I fell to the floor. I almost fainted … Then they put me on the chair again. They said, ‘this guy hasn’t changed yet, he needs to stay [in the camp] longer.”
Another former detainee, Madi, described witnessing the torture of a cellmate who he later learned died from the effects of the torture.
“He was made to sit in a tiger chair … It was an iron chair … his arms were cuffed and chained. Legs were chained as well. His body was tied to the back of the chair … Two [cuffs] were locked around his wrists and legs … A rubber thing attached to the ribs to make the person [sit] up straight,” Madi recalled.
“At some point we could see his testicles. He would [urinate and defecate] in the chair. He was in the chair for three nights … He died after he [was taken out of the cell].”
While the EU, US, UK and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials over the alleged abuses in March, the possibility of China being investigated by an international legal body is complicated by the fact that it is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the BBC reports.
Thus, it’s put outside the court’s jurisdiction and has veto power over cases taken up by the ICC – which announced in December it would not pursue the case.
‘Hellscape’: Damning report exposes China
Amnesty International secretary-general Agnes Callamard said Chinese authorities have created “a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale”. Picture: Fabrice Coffrini/AFPSource:AFP
Experts believe China has detained as many as a million Uyghurs and other Muslims, and imprisoned hundreds of thousands more. Picture: Ozan Kose/AFPSource:AFP
Millions subjected to ‘severe violence and intimidation’
Common belief among experts is that China has detained as many as a million Uyghurs and other Muslims and imprisoned hundreds of thousands more people in its crackdown in Xinjiang, which began in 2017.
Amid reports of physical and psychological torture inside the detention camps, the Chinese government has also been accused of forced abortion, sterilisation and population transfer to reduce population density and reduce birthrates of minorities, and targeting religious leaders to break religious and cultural traditions.
While China initially denied the existence of the camps, it has since defended them as a “necessary measure against terrorism” following separatist violence in the Xinjiang region.
“For a period of time, the penetration of religious extremism made implementing family planning policy in southern Xinjiang, including Kashgar and Hotan prefectures, particularly difficult,” China Daily, a publication owned by the Chinese Communist Party, wrote in regard to study findings by the Xinjiang Development Research Centre in January.
“That led to rapid population growth in those areas as some extremists incited locals to resist family planning policy, resulting in the prevalence of early marriage and bigamy, and frequent unplanned births.”
One of China’s detention camps. Picture: Greg Baker/AFPSource:AFP
Keeping minorities in the camps display the government’s “clear intent to target parts of Xinjiang’s population collectively on the basis of religion and ethnicity”. Picture: Greg Baker/AFPSource:AFP
In its report, Amnesty International said counter-terrorism could not reasonably account for mass detention, with the government’s actions displaying a “clear intent to target parts of Xinjiang’s population collectively on the basis of religion and ethnicity and to use severe violence and intimidation to root out Islamic religious beliefs and Turkic Muslim ethno cultural practices”.
Those taken to the camps, the report said, were “subjected to a ceaseless indoctrination campaign as well as physical and psychological torture”.
Torture methods, according to those the organisation interviewed, included “beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, the unlawful use of restraints (including being locked in a tiger chair – a steel chair with leg irons and handcuffs designed to shackle the body in place), sleep deprivation, being hung from a wall, being subjected to extremely cold temperatures, and solitary confinement”.
‘Like we were enemies in a war’
Detainees described being in the camps as “like we were enemies in a war”, with Amnesty International reporting that the internment camp detention process “appears to be operating outside the scope of the Chinese criminal justice system or other domestic law”.
Many of those who had been put in detention told the organisation it wasn’t for a specific act – rather, they were informed they had been detained because they’d been classified as “suspicious” or “untrustworthy”; a “terrorist” or an “extremist”.
“Two guards took me from the cell and dropped me off [at the room where I was interrogated],” Mansur, a farmer, told Amnesty International.
“Two men were inside … If I told them I had been praying, I had heard that I would get sentenced for 20 or 25 years. So I told them I never prayed. Then they became upset … they hit me with a chair until it broke … I fell to the floor. I almost fainted … Then they put me on the chair again. They said, ‘this guy hasn’t changed yet, he needs to stay [in the camp] longer.”
Another former detainee, Madi, described witnessing the torture of a cellmate who he later learned died from the effects of the torture.
“He was made to sit in a tiger chair … It was an iron chair … his arms were cuffed and chained. Legs were chained as well. His body was tied to the back of the chair … Two [cuffs] were locked around his wrists and legs … A rubber thing attached to the ribs to make the person [sit] up straight,” Madi recalled.
“At some point we could see his testicles. He would [urinate and defecate] in the chair. He was in the chair for three nights … He died after he [was taken out of the cell].”
While the EU, US, UK and Canada imposed sanctions on Chinese officials over the alleged abuses in March, the possibility of China being investigated by an international legal body is complicated by the fact that it is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the BBC reports.
Thus, it’s put outside the court’s jurisdiction and has veto power over cases taken up by the ICC – which announced in December it would not pursue the case.
stinkypura dot sized peesai
why didn't melayun malaysia and indonesia beat up stinkypura in all these decades?
hard to take western report or western crocodile tears for uighurs seriously
considering their centuries long enmity with Muslims
only as recently as a few weeks ago innocent children not to mention other civilians by the hundreds were martyred by coward terrorist zionist entity because they can't fight
why don't they attack iran?
got no balls?
distance is no issue
distance from tel aviv to tehran abt same as from tel aviv to tunis
why not attacked yet?
ball-less cowards? or scammers?
when was the last time Muslims blew themselves up in crowded places?
When was the last time kafir killed or bombed innocent Muslims from the air crossing the oceans and in Muslim countries themselves?
Only last month hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians incl lots of children were murdered by coward terrorist zionists.
yet zionist terrorists got no balls to attack iran.
Scammers?
cheaters?
or losers?
can't wait for Iran to unveil its ICBM (ghaem SLV based ICBM) and thermonuclear warheads tested
i hope, just hope, the current president Ebrahim Raisi turns out to be a real hardliner
not a one term wonder
and goes on to become the next supreme leader of Iran after Khamenei
Iran with nukes+ ICBM with 10,000+ nukes and anti satellite missiles tried and tested, with popn of 500 million will be able to restore balance globally Inshallah
only 2 days ago Iranians performed robotic surgery from a distance on a dog, robotic telesurgery
not 100% indigenous content, hopefully 100% indigenization will be achieved soon.
they claim they are only 2nd country to do it
i hope to see areas where iran is the 1st
country to develop new tech
then, and only then, the rules of the game will change
500 million popn bare minimum is a necessity for iran to counter any and all threats pressures or attempted sabotage or negative propaganda or subversion efforts from kafir west or the rest
iran got plenty of land
Stop firing missiles into Israel and all will be well.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/06/23/660733/Iran-medicine-robotic-surgery
Picture taken on June 23, 2021 at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Hospital shows Iran’s first robosurgeon in operation.
Iran becomes the second country in the world to successfully try its hand at robotic telesurgery, whereby the patient is operated on using a robosurgeon that is controlled by a human surgeon, who is based at a distance.
The operation was conducted at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Hospital on Wednesday, using a domestically-built robosurgeon on a dog.
The surgeon handling the machine was based seven kilometers (four miles) away at the capital’s Sina Hospital.
The robot is outfitted with two mechanical arms. The arms are connected to a distant control panel manned by the human surgeon.
Aside from the control panel, the surgeon supervises the operation via footage that is simultaneously relayed to him or her on a display device.
The communication link between the robot and the surgeon was enabled by the country’s Hamrah-e-Avval mobile service provider.
Deputy President for Science and Technology, Sourena Sattari was present during the operation.
The robot is now being examined and worked on for suitability for operations on humans.
Prior to the Islamic Republic, only the United States had developed a robosurgeon before.
Iran becomes 2nd country to successfully conduct robotic telesurgery
Wednesday, 23 June 2021 5:08 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 23 June 2021 5:08 PM ]
Picture taken on June 23, 2021 at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Hospital shows Iran’s first robosurgeon in operation.
Iran becomes the second country in the world to successfully try its hand at robotic telesurgery, whereby the patient is operated on using a robosurgeon that is controlled by a human surgeon, who is based at a distance.
The operation was conducted at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Hospital on Wednesday, using a domestically-built robosurgeon on a dog.
The surgeon handling the machine was based seven kilometers (four miles) away at the capital’s Sina Hospital.
The robot is outfitted with two mechanical arms. The arms are connected to a distant control panel manned by the human surgeon.
Aside from the control panel, the surgeon supervises the operation via footage that is simultaneously relayed to him or her on a display device.
The communication link between the robot and the surgeon was enabled by the country’s Hamrah-e-Avval mobile service provider.
Deputy President for Science and Technology, Sourena Sattari was present during the operation.
The robot is now being examined and worked on for suitability for operations on humans.
Prior to the Islamic Republic, only the United States had developed a robosurgeon before.
Zionists aren't recognized by any democratically elected entity in the region and even beyond in some regions
this time around, it was zionists who started the mess on the 27th of Holy month of Ramadan by intruding into 3rd holiest site of Islam in the Al Aqsa Masjid
Zionists yankees and other kafir should stop intruding into Muslim territory and "all will be well"
They are smart. The muslims are stupid. Learn to respect those who are superior.
By A Q Farhat on October 21, 2013 • ( 23 Comments )
Forget the genius genes or bookish culture hocus pocus. Jewish achievement in the sciences is a modern phenomenon, but the passions that drove it are now ebbing away.
Haaretz, By Noah Efron
Camp Young Judea, a Zionist sleepaway camp where I passed a bit of my youth, tweeted this just after this year’s Nobel Prize winners were announced, and it got me thinking: Did you know… Of the 8 individuals who have won Nobel Prizes this year, 6 are Jewish, 2 are Israeli, and 1 is a Holocaust survivor!
I did know, of course, and so did everyone else.
In the weeks following the announcement, I read hundreds of tweets and dozens of posts about Jews’ banner performance in Stockholm; I’ve seen it lead the TV news on all three Israeli stations that carry the news, gotten emails about it from enthusiastic relatives and overheard discussions about it in the faculty cafeteria.
While most reactions were triumphalist (“Super Jews and Our Incredible Nobel Prize Statistics,” ran one headline), some were pensive. Here in Israel, the fact that two chemistry laureates had abandoned the Jewish State when they realized it held no jobs for them, tinctured our national pride with self-censure.
Elsewhere, rabbis and pundits tried to puzzle out what it is about Jews that make them so super at science.
Broadly, two sorts of theories have been floated. One is that Jews have primo genes. Charles Murray, the Enterprise Institute scholar and co-author of The Bell Curve, set out the case for this a few years ago in an essay in Commentary called “Jewish Genius,” writing bluntly that “something in the genes explains elevated Jewish IQ.” Another theory is that Jews love hitting the books, as Israeli economics laureate Robert Aumann told the army radio station Galei Tzahal: Jewish homes have overflowing bookshelves. Throughout the generations we have given great honor to this intellectual pursuit.
There are good reasons to doubt both sorts of theories. For one thing, Jewish excellence in science is a new thing. When the great Jewish folklorist Joseph Jacobs set out in 1886 to compare the talents of Jews with the talents of other Westerners, he found their performance mediocre in every science save medicine. In the first decades of the 20th century, Princeton psychologist Carl Brigham tested the intelligence of Jews in America, and concluded they “had an average intelligence below those from all other countries except Poland and Italy.” Jewish excellence in science is a phenomenon that flowered in the decades before and, especially, after the Second World War; it is too recent a phenomenon to be explained by natural selection, or even by putative ancient cultural traditions.
The real explanation of Jewish success in science lies elsewhere. The 20th century began with massive migrations of Jews, to the United States, to the cities of Russia (and then the Soviet Union), and to Palestine. In each of these new lands, Jews turned to science in great numbers because it promised a way to transcend the old world orders that had for so long excluded most Jews from power, wealth and society. Science, based as it is on values of universality, impartiality and meritocracy, appealed powerfully for Jews seeking to succeed in their new homes. It is not so much what Jews were (smart, bookish) that explains their success in science, as what we wanted to be (equal, accepted, esteemed), and in what sorts of places we wanted to live (liberal and meritocratic societies).
But I’m not the Grinch. I would have nothing against devoting a week each year to tweeting, blogging and chatting about how Jews rule when it comes to Nobel Prizes, and totally rock as scientists, were it not for the fact that our self-congratulation keeps us from seeing something that matters. Nobel Prizes are a lagging indicator. Given years after the achievements they celebrate, often to long-retired scientists, they reflect a state of affairs that existed 30, 40, and sometimes 50 years ago. They are a browning snapshot of bygone days.
What bugs me about attributing the remarkable prominence of Jews among Nobel laureates to genes or enduring cultural traditions is that doing so suggests that Jewish success in science will inevitably continue as a matter of course. Most likely it won’t. The percentages of Jews among new American Ph.D.s in the sciences has declined greatly over the past generation. In Israel, spending on higher education has continued to decline during most of the same period; to many of the growing numbers in Israel who embrace religion, the appeal of science has nearly vanished. The passions that drew Jews to sciences in such great numbers have dissipated.
Maybe this was inevitable, maybe not. Either way, there is no good reason to expect that the remarkable contributions of Jews to science will continue for generations to come. Rather than celebrating the late ripening fruit of our parents’ and grandparents’ toil, each Nobel Prize is a chance to ponder whether we oughtn’t be planting afresh the too-often neglected fields they bequeathed us.
Why Jews win so many Nobel prizes
Forget the genius genes or bookish culture hocus pocus. Jewish achievement in the sciences is a modern phenomenon, but the passions that drove it are now ebbing away.
Haaretz, By Noah Efron
Camp Young Judea, a Zionist sleepaway camp where I passed a bit of my youth, tweeted this just after this year’s Nobel Prize winners were announced, and it got me thinking: Did you know… Of the 8 individuals who have won Nobel Prizes this year, 6 are Jewish, 2 are Israeli, and 1 is a Holocaust survivor!
I did know, of course, and so did everyone else.
In the weeks following the announcement, I read hundreds of tweets and dozens of posts about Jews’ banner performance in Stockholm; I’ve seen it lead the TV news on all three Israeli stations that carry the news, gotten emails about it from enthusiastic relatives and overheard discussions about it in the faculty cafeteria.
While most reactions were triumphalist (“Super Jews and Our Incredible Nobel Prize Statistics,” ran one headline), some were pensive. Here in Israel, the fact that two chemistry laureates had abandoned the Jewish State when they realized it held no jobs for them, tinctured our national pride with self-censure.
Elsewhere, rabbis and pundits tried to puzzle out what it is about Jews that make them so super at science.
Broadly, two sorts of theories have been floated. One is that Jews have primo genes. Charles Murray, the Enterprise Institute scholar and co-author of The Bell Curve, set out the case for this a few years ago in an essay in Commentary called “Jewish Genius,” writing bluntly that “something in the genes explains elevated Jewish IQ.” Another theory is that Jews love hitting the books, as Israeli economics laureate Robert Aumann told the army radio station Galei Tzahal: Jewish homes have overflowing bookshelves. Throughout the generations we have given great honor to this intellectual pursuit.
There are good reasons to doubt both sorts of theories. For one thing, Jewish excellence in science is a new thing. When the great Jewish folklorist Joseph Jacobs set out in 1886 to compare the talents of Jews with the talents of other Westerners, he found their performance mediocre in every science save medicine. In the first decades of the 20th century, Princeton psychologist Carl Brigham tested the intelligence of Jews in America, and concluded they “had an average intelligence below those from all other countries except Poland and Italy.” Jewish excellence in science is a phenomenon that flowered in the decades before and, especially, after the Second World War; it is too recent a phenomenon to be explained by natural selection, or even by putative ancient cultural traditions.
The real explanation of Jewish success in science lies elsewhere. The 20th century began with massive migrations of Jews, to the United States, to the cities of Russia (and then the Soviet Union), and to Palestine. In each of these new lands, Jews turned to science in great numbers because it promised a way to transcend the old world orders that had for so long excluded most Jews from power, wealth and society. Science, based as it is on values of universality, impartiality and meritocracy, appealed powerfully for Jews seeking to succeed in their new homes. It is not so much what Jews were (smart, bookish) that explains their success in science, as what we wanted to be (equal, accepted, esteemed), and in what sorts of places we wanted to live (liberal and meritocratic societies).
But I’m not the Grinch. I would have nothing against devoting a week each year to tweeting, blogging and chatting about how Jews rule when it comes to Nobel Prizes, and totally rock as scientists, were it not for the fact that our self-congratulation keeps us from seeing something that matters. Nobel Prizes are a lagging indicator. Given years after the achievements they celebrate, often to long-retired scientists, they reflect a state of affairs that existed 30, 40, and sometimes 50 years ago. They are a browning snapshot of bygone days.
What bugs me about attributing the remarkable prominence of Jews among Nobel laureates to genes or enduring cultural traditions is that doing so suggests that Jewish success in science will inevitably continue as a matter of course. Most likely it won’t. The percentages of Jews among new American Ph.D.s in the sciences has declined greatly over the past generation. In Israel, spending on higher education has continued to decline during most of the same period; to many of the growing numbers in Israel who embrace religion, the appeal of science has nearly vanished. The passions that drew Jews to sciences in such great numbers have dissipated.
Maybe this was inevitable, maybe not. Either way, there is no good reason to expect that the remarkable contributions of Jews to science will continue for generations to come. Rather than celebrating the late ripening fruit of our parents’ and grandparents’ toil, each Nobel Prize is a chance to ponder whether we oughtn’t be planting afresh the too-often neglected fields they bequeathed us.
Why do more Jews than Muslims win Nobel Prizes? Education
Professor Ahmed Hassan Zewail of Caltech died unexpectedly on Aug.7 in Pasadena.
Born in Damanhur, Egypt, educated at Alexandria University and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999. Although Muslims constitute more than 23 percent of the world’s population, as of 2015, only 12 Nobel laureates have been Muslims, whereas 193 (22 percent) of the total 855 laureates have been Jewish, although Jews comprise less than 0.2 percent of the world’s population.
The reason for this disparity is primarily cultural rather than genetic. Jewish youths are encouraged to learn to read in order to study Torah. A Muslim website (https://realdeen.wordpress/2006/09/01/nobel-p) states, “Let’s try to learn only 1% from Jews and we will be ‘heaps better’ than what we Muslims are today! WE SHOULD STOP BLAMING JEWS and must look at ourselves!”
Read more here: https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article95792072.html#storylink=cpy
If they are smart, should not they have prevented themselves getting massacred by Hitler & Co some 70 odd years ago?
How come they could not get a state for themselves in 3000 years and to this day need to leech off Christian europeans and descendants in usa russia europe etc?
Muslims are the only civilizational entity that ruled in the heart of Europe, and over Europeans, for centuries at a stretch. Spain alone was ruled for 800 years by Muslims.
Nigs couldn't do it. latinos couldn't asean natives couldn't. american oceanian australian natives couldn't ceca virus couldn't do it.
east asian slanties tiongs or gooks or japs couldn't do it either.
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