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    China’s incarceration of Uyghurs and other Muslims exposed in US documentary
    22nd May 2020
    China’s incarceration of Uyghurs and other Muslims exposed in US documentary

    A special undercover report from China’s secretive Xinjiang region. Investigating the Communist regime’s mass imprisonment of Muslims, and its use and testing of sophisticated surveillance technology against the population.(Credit: FRONTLINE/PBS)

    Meng Yihua

    A harrowing undercover investigation into China’s mass incarceration of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities was aired on April 7, on America’s PBS TV network.

    In the ninth episode of this season, FRONTLINE reports on the Chinese regime’s mass detention and testing of high-tech surveillance against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.

    ‘China Undercover’ follows the stories of former detainees as well as relatives of current detainees.

    It explains the secret language used by Uyghurs, a spoken code in which ‘studying’ means someone is detained in the camps, in line with the Government claim that the camps are ‘re-education centres’.

    Former detainees speak of torture, and unbearable circumstances pushing many men and women suicidal thoughts, while Chinese officials declined to comment, instead upholding that ‘students’ are treated with respect and dignity.

    The documentary starts with the story of Sadryzhan whose wife travelled from Kazakhstan to East Turkestan referred to in China as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to visit her parents two years ago and never returned to him and their three children.

    While he makes yet another trip to the Kazakhstan-China border in March 2019 to find news on his wife, we learn that calls made to China from foreign numbers are monitored, that the Chinese surveillance is so high-tech that it can pick up keywords used in conversations, and that fear among the Muslim minorities in Xinjiang is commonplace. He describes Xinjiang as “an open prison”.

    “Uyghurs are not considered human by the Chinese government,” says an engineer who helped build surveillance tools in China — which he says the Communist regime uses to gather data on the Uyghur Muslim population.
    FRONTLINE sends Han Chinese reporter I Li undercover to Xinjiang, to investigate further. He poses as a businessman seeking new opportunities on his vacation. He uses his mobile phone to film discreetly; if he is caught filming, even Li could be imprisoned.

    Through his conversations with Han taxi drivers, Uyghur taxi drivers, Han store workers, and any locals brave enough to speak with him, we learn that the rules for Uyghurs and Han Chinese are vastly different within Xinjiang.

    Frontline’s documentary makes sure to provide historical context, often overlooked in the discussion on the region. The Uyghurs have over a millennium history in Xinjiang, but tensions started when the Qing dynasty invaded 250 years ago.

    Today, the Han Chinese form 40 per cent of Xinjiang’s population. In 2009, when peaceful protests against the killing of two Uyghurs elsewhere in China were suppressed by police in Xinjiang, Uyghurs rioted and the Government reported approximately 200 deaths.

    Since then, and even more so since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012 with a vision of China that didn’t include Uyghurs, innumerable numbers of Uyghurs have been killed and imprisoned. Satellite imagery of Xinjiang within the documentary shows mosques being destroyed and vast prison-like structures and drone footage shows shackled prisoners.

    Experts say this is the largest mass incarceration of an ethnic group since the Holocaust; it is an attempt to wipe out the Uyghur traditions, language and culture. With an estimated two million Muslims and Uyghurs imprisoned across more than 1,200 detention centres, detainees suffer involuntary indoctrination, brainwashing and ultimately eradication of their entire way of life.
    http://muslimnews.co.uk/newspaper/human-rights/38043-2/

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    US sanctions Chinese entities over human rights violations | DW | 22.05.2020
    Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com)
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    The US says it will penalize 33 Chinese entities for human rights abuses against Uighurs and other minority groups. The move comes after China imposed a law that would quell the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

    The US Department of Commerce on Friday said it would sanction 33 Chinese firms and government institutions over human rights abuses against Uighurs and other minority groups in China's western Xinjiang region. It came after Chinese lawmakers proposed a law that would put severe restrictions on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

    The US will penalize two entities, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's Institute of Forensic Science and Aksu Huafu Textiles, for "engaging in human rights violations and abuses." Seven other companies will be sanctioned for enabling surveillance in Xinjiang, the Commerce Department said, adding that all will be subject to restrictions from exports from the US.

    "These nine parties are complicit in human rights violations and abuses committed in China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region," the Commerce Department said in a statement.

    Two dozen other companies, government institutions and commercial organizations were also added to the list for supporting the procurement of items for the Chinese military, the Commerce Department said in a second statement.

    The newly-sanctioned companies specialize in artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology.

    Read more: Imprisoned Uighur professor's release shows how Beijing forces loyalty

    China moves against Hong Kong

    The sanctions were announced after China made moves to enact a long-stalled national security law in the semi-autonomous territory of Hong Kong.

    The legislation, proposed in a bill submitted Friday, would outlaw secessionist and subversive activity as well as terrorism and foreign interference. Prior to the coronavirus crisis, last year Hong Kong was rocked by months of pro-democracy demonstrations that sometimes resulted in violent confrontations between police and protesters.

    Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan said in a news briefing that the bill violates the "one country, two systems" framework guaranteed to the city by Beijing.

    They're trying to ban every organization in Hong Kong who dares to speak out against the Communist Party,'' he said, referring to the ruling political party in China.

    Read more: Hong Kong opposition and activists slam China's planned security law

    'Disastrous proposal'

    US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the proposal as "disastrous."

    "The decision to bypass Hong Kong's well-established legislative processes and ignore the will of the people of Hong Kong would be a death knell for the high degree of autonomy Beijing promised," he said.

    The foreign ministers of the UK, Australia, and Canada also released a joint statement saying they were "deeply concerned" about the proposed legislation.

    The new sanctions come as tensions mount between the US and China. President Donald Trump has accused Beijing of covering up the origins of the coronavirus, which first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year.

    Recently, the US has increased its criticism of how China treats ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Last October, lawmakers sanctioned 28 Chinese entities for their involvement in human rights violations in the region.

    Uighur activists and witnesses claim that China is trying to forcibly integrate the Muslim ethnic minority group. China has said it is providing vocational training and discouraging extremism. https://www.dw.com/en/us-sanctions-c...ons/a-53542199

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    Extradition Treaty That Could Deport Uyghurs From Turkey to China Faces Uncertainty in Ankara
    2020-05-21
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    An extradition treaty that could be used to forcibly deport Uyghurs from Turkey to China where they are at risk of persecution faces an uncertain fate in parliament, according to Turkish opposition lawmakers, while cases that highlight Beijing’s influence over Ankara have raised fears among Uyghur exiles.

    Many of the more than 50,000 Uyghurs who live in Turkey fled there to escape persecution in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where authorities are believed to have held up to 1.8 million members of their ethnic group and other Muslim minorities in a vast network of internment camps since April 2017.

    Uyghurs traditionally view Turkey as a refuge and advocate for their rights, but a 2017 extradition treaty signed between Beijing and Ankara—though not ratified—was submitted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for consideration a year ago to the Grand National Assembly (TBMM). Observers fear it specifically targets Uyghurs in the majority Muslim nation for forced repatriation to China.

    The agreement—a copy of which was obtained by research group Nordic Monitor, which promotes awareness of extremist trends—"contains ambiguous phrases that might trigger the extradition of scores of Uyghurs from Turkey and violate extradition mechanisms regulated by the European Convention on Extradition (ECE), to which Turkey is a party,” the group said in an article on Tuesday.

    In particular, Nordic Monitor highlighted Article 2 (2) of the deal, which says that “it shall not matter whether the laws of both Parties place the offence within the same category or describe the offence by the same terminology,” which the group said would allow either country to request the extradition of its citizens regardless of whether an offense is considered illegal according to the other country’s laws.

    The Turkish government had long refused to extradite or deport Uyghurs back to China, but that changed in June last year—two months after the treaty was submitted to parliament—when Turkey sent several home via Tajikistan, including a woman named Zinnetgul Tursun along with her two toddler daughters.

    A month later, Tursun’s sister—who lives in exile in Saudi Arabia—learned from her mother in the XUAR that her sibling had “disappeared” and that the family had no information about what had happened to her, before warning her to end further communication.

    In February 2019, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry issued a rare statement of criticism against China by a majority Muslim nation, demanding that authorities close the internment camps in the XUAR. During a trip to China in July last year, however, Erdogan pledged security cooperation with Beijing and said that residents of the XUAR live happy and prosperous lives under Beijing’s rule, according to Chinese state television.

    The threat of forced repatriation facing Uyghurs in Turkey was further underscored in an article published on Wednesday by Axios, an online newsletter, which revealed the Chinese government’s secret request to the Turkish government in 2016 for the extradition of a Uyghur man named Enver Turdi who had passed information about rights abuses in the XUAR to RFA and Uyghur exile groups.

    According to Axios, Beijing asked Turkish authorities to discover Turdi’s whereabouts, seize or freeze his assets, arrest him, and “repatriate him to China.” The Turkish Ministry of Justice initiated court proceedings against him for failure to renew his residency permit, which he had been unable to do because the Chinese Embassy refused to issue him a new passport.

    In 2017, Turdi was detained for 12 months in a deportation facility, accused of running a pro-Islamic State website—which he denied—and had his case sent to a criminal court, instead of one handling matters of immigration. His case is still pending.

    ‘No chance’ for agenda

    RFA’s Uyghur Service spoke with members of parliament (MP) from Turkey’s minority Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which holds 49 seats in the 600-seat TBMM, and IYI Party, which holds 37 seats in the legislature. All said the draft extradition treaty is unlikely to come up for a vote any time soon, in part because of the support most Turks feel for Uyghurs.

    Olcay Kilavuz, an MP with the MPH, told RFA “there’s no [current] agenda” at the TBMM for voting on the draft extradition treaty with China.

    “But I’ll say, asking about this is a disgrace in and of itself,” he said.

    “Of course, we will safeguard the safety, happiness, freedom, and existence of our ethnic brethren [the Uyghurs]. Thus, our party and our leader have been demonstrating sensitivity [toward this issue].”

    Furthermore, Kilavuz said, his party is actively working in support of the Uyghurs and to hold China to account for its rights violations in the XUAR.

    “We are doing all that we can to support our ethnic brethren in opposition to the deaths, murders, and verbal abuse [they are experiencing], the restrictions on their language, culture, and everyday life, and the hindrances to their religious faith.”

    Fahrettin Yokusm, an MP with the IYI Party, said his fellow lawmakers “will come out swiftly against this,” but added that Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) “won’t even be able to put this on the agenda.”

    “Should they, it will lead to difficulties in the [TBMM],” he told RFA.

    “Our party will be the fastest to oppose. We will do everything we can to ensure it doesn’t pass. But I wouldn’t say there’s a chance of it even getting on the agenda.”

    Yokusm praised the U.S. Senate for last week passing the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 that would sanction Chinese government officials responsible for arbitrary incarceration, forced labor and other abuses in the XUAR and requires regular monitoring of the situation there by U.S. government bodies, once signed into law by President Donald Trump.

    “Although it’s possible that [the bill] is receiving support as a way of the U.S. putting pressure on China for [its handling of the] coronavirus, we see it positively insofar as it means that the East Turkistan issue is on the agenda, and especially that our ethnic brethren in camps might be released,” he said, using the name preferred by Uyghurs for their homeland.

    “We also support it from here—the camps must close, and people should be reunited with their families.”

    ‘Backward legal framework’

    Nury Turkel, a Washington-based Uyghur attorney, told RFA that Turkey’s recent deportation of Uyghurs at China’s request was wrong and said further actions could hurt its bid to join the European Union because they are in violation of extradition rules under the ECE.

    “Currently, the worldwide trend is to refuse to return Uyghur refugees to China,” he said.

    “For a country that has been negotiating entry to the European Union, a country that is a member of NATO, a country that has achieved some standing in economic, cultural, and diplomatic relations on the world stage, to accept such a backward legal framework, one that people are actively opposing, into its own domestic system is an affront to the Turkish legal system, in my opinion.” https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyg...020170930.html

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    Uyghurs in Turkey fearful of China's Influence
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    Displaced Uyghurs in Turkey are becoming more fearful of growing Chinese influence over Turkey due to financial agreements between the two countries, even though Turkey has become a safe haven for Uyghurs over the years. Dozens of Uyghurs have been detained and threatened with deportation back to China, a fate suffered by one woman and her two children last year. Despite Turkey having been the only Muslim country to denounce China's actions against its Uyghur minority as "cultural genocide", increasing Turkish debt to China is resulting in growing fears among the Uyghurs in Turkey for their safety. On the other hand, some activists are encouraged by the global response to the coronavirus, which is shedding significant light on China and its treatment of minorities and has advanced "maybe 20 years of advocacy in the space of a few months.”

    Below is an article by the Guardian

    In Hayri Gül’s house, there was a lot to do before the Eid al-Fitr, or Bayram, holiday marking the end of Ramadan began on Saturday. There were traditional sangza noodles to bake, then twist into ropes and pile into pyramids. Special occasion clothes needed to be washed and ironed.

    Celebrating the Muslim holiday is a freedom Gül and her four children did not have at home in the northwestern Chinese territory of Xinjiang, the Uighur homeland, where over the last few years the authorities have suffocated the ethnic minority’s cultural practices and turned the entire region into a police state subject to strict surveillance even inside their homes. Up to 1 million people have disappeared into re-education camps in what China says is a necessary measure to stamp out extremism.

    When the family fled the crackdown in 2016, the 42-year-old was forced to leave her husband and youngest son behind because the state would not issue them passports. Contact with them stopped later that year, and she no longer knows if they are alive or dead. But here in Istanbul, Gül is grateful that at least some of the 12-million-strong Uighur population have found a place to keep their cultural heritage alive.

    “I miss my homeland and my family every day. I cry a lot with the pain,” she said at her home in Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu neighbourhood. “I love life in Istanbul. I wish they could be here too. My children have freedom here we could not imagine before.”

    The relationship between Uighurs and Turkey stretches back centuries: once connected by the Silk Road, the peoples share a religion, cultural ties and similar Turkic languages. Uighur men who fought for the Ottoman empire rest in the vast second world war graveyards in Çanakkale, or Gallipoli; during the Communist revolution in China in the 1940s, the Turkish republic recognised the breakaway Uighur state of East Turkestan and opened its doors to refugees.

    In the last few years, Istanbul has become the largest diaspora hub in the world for displaced Uighurs. The community in Turkey numbers approximately 50,000, the majority of which live in Istanbul’s Sefakoy and Zeytinburnu neighbourhoods. About 11,000, like Gul’s family, have arrived recently after fleeing the persecution at home.

    In exile, Uighur culture has flourished in a way that was impossible in Xinjiang: several publishing houses, bookshops and cultural centres that would have been banned in China have opened in Istanbul. Artists and intellectuals have platforms and audiences for their work; artisanal workshops, many run by women, sell colourful traditional clothing and homewares.

    At the Nuzugum Family and Culture Association, named for a Uighur historical heroine, its founder, Münevver Özuygur, cares for 210 families, giving children a chance to connect with their heritage in Uighur-language lessons after school while their mothers work at the neighbouring textile centre.

    “Almost all their husbands and fathers are missing in the camps,” Özuygur said. “Here we have a strong sense of community and help women become financially independent and look after themselves.”

    Life in Turkey is not without difficulty – and an increasing sense of danger. While President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the only Muslim world leader to publicly denounce China’s clampdown on Muslim minorities as a “cultural genocide”, as Turkey has lurched into economic meltdown and alienated former allies his stance appears to have softened.

    Since 2018, Ankara has turned to Beijing for a $3.6bn (£2.9bn) loan, along with Chinese investments in state infrastructure projects and credit swap lines to bolster Turkey’s depleted foreign exchange reserves.

    Uighur activists say the financial help has come at the cost of their safety: dozens of people have been detained by Turkish authorities and threatened with deportation.

    Last year, a woman called Zinnetgul Tursun and her two young daughters were extradited to Tajikistan and then China. She has not been heard from since.

    Many Uighurs in Turkey report phone calls from Chinese police threatening family members still in Xinjiang if they did not stop campaigning against the ruling Communist party’s policies. Residency paperwork is now harder to obtain, leaving about 2,000 people without the legal right to stay. Humanitarian protection papers promised by the Turkish interior ministry cover access to healthcare, but do not allow recipients to work.

    Even as China’s long arm infiltrates their haven, some campaigners are buoyed by how the Covid-19 crisis has refocused international scrutiny on the situation in Xinjiang.

    “It’s sad that it’s taken deaths all over the world for people to wake up but in some ways coronavirus has been a blessing in disguise for Uighurs,” said Arslan Hidayet, an Australian Uighur activist who now lives in Istanbul.

    “East Turkestan, Tibet, Hong Kong are all victims of China’s destructive policies. What the world is learning now is that China will arrive on everyone’s doorstep eventually. There is realistic talk now of sanctions and boycotts against Beijing. We have achieved maybe 20 years of advocacy in the space of a few months.”

    Photograph: Uighur childen attend a Uighur-language school in Istanbul. The relationship between Uighurs and Turkey stretches back centuries. Credit: Ozan Köse/AFP via Getty Images
    https://unpo.org/article/21906

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    Documents show China's secret extradition request for Uighur in Turkey
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    Axios has obtained a Chinese government request sent to the Turkish government for a Uighur man who fled Xinjiang amid worsening repression.

    Why it matters: Uighurs living outside China have long suspected that Beijing is using its growing diplomatic and economic clout to pressure foreign governments into interrogating and deporting them.

    These documents from 2016 and 2017 — together with Turkey's treatment of the man after that — provide rare proof this is happening.

    "I spend most of my nights in fear. I usually don’t sleep until after 1am because I am afraid they will come for me and my family."

    — Enver Turdi, in an interview with Axios

    Details: Enver Turdi, the man named in the extradition request, has lived in Turkey since early 2014 when he fled Xinjiang, a region in northwest China that is home to around 10 million Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority.

    In 2012 and 2013, Enver passed along information about Chinese government abuses to Radio Free Asia and to Uighur organizations abroad, he told Axios in an interview. He left China on a tourist visa after one of his associates was detained.
    In 2015, the Chinese Embassy in Turkey refused to issue him a new passport, without which he could not renew his Turkish temporary residence permit, Enver told Axios. In 2017, he was placed in a deportation facility for 12 months after being unable to produce valid residence documents.
    Turkish security officials then interrogated him and claimed that he had been running a pro-Islamic State website, which he denied, and showed him a copy of his 2004 graduation photo, which Enver says they could only have obtained from China. His case was sent to a criminal court, not an immigration court.

    Enver's case is still pending in the Turkish courts.

    Background: The Chinese Communist Party has placed heavy restrictions on Uighurs and other majority-Muslim ethnic groups in western China.

    In early 2017, the Chinese government began putting hundreds of thousands of Uighurs into extrajudicial mass detention camps, where detainees are kept in dire conditions and forced to attend re-education classes. Many others receive long prison sentences without fair trials.
    The Chinese government has said its measures in Xinjiang are intended to fight terrorism and extremism, but academics and human rights groups say what's happening is a cultural genocide on a scale not seen since World War II.

    The documents: The dossier is 92 pages long and includes the Chinese government extradition request, dated May 2016, supporting police reports, Turkish translations provided by the Chinese government, and Turkish government documents from 2017 indicating the request was accepted by the Turkish Ministry of Justice and that court proceedings were initiated.

    Enver's lawyer obtained the dossier in early 2020, the first time that Enver says he knew for sure that the Chinese government was behind his troubles in Turkey.
    To authenticate the documents, Axios consulted experts on Chinese and Turkish law, human rights groups who work on cases in Turkey and China, and researchers who focus on Xinjiang.

    What they're saying: The Chinese government accused Enver of creating a pro-Islamic State website and participating in a terrorist organization. Enver denies these accusations.

    Beijing asked Turkish authorities to discover Enver's whereabouts, seize or freeze his assets, arrest him, and "repatriate him to China."
    The documents themselves aren't formally marked as classified, but the Chinese government instructed Turkish officials to keep the case a secret, writing, "The details of this case are classified, we ask the Turkish side to keep it confidential in accordance with local laws."

    The Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment.

    Context: After thousands of Uighurs left China amid worsening repression over the past decade, the Chinese government launched a quiet global campaign to force Uighurs to return.

    Some countries, including Egypt and Thailand, have sent dozens of Uighurs back to China. Those who returned often disappeared. Some have reportedly died.
    “The lengths that China will go to control Uighurs is stunning,” said Elise Anderson, a program officer at the Uighur Human Rights Project, a U.S.-based advocacy organization, told Axios.
    After the rise of the Islamic State, which a small number of Uighurs joined, the Chinese government has increasingly framed Uighur religious and cultural activity as dangerous extremism. One official list of signs of "religious extremism" included "distorting Xinjiang history," "young men wearing long beards" and "closing restaurants during Ramadan."

    "China puts pressure on Turkey, and Turkey has to jump through hoops."

    — Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey director at Human Rights Watch, in an interview with Axios.

    The view from Ankara: Prior to 2017, the Turkish government openly welcomed Uighurs fleeing China, and many Turkish people feel a sense of solidarity with Uighurs.

    But warming ties between China and Turkey have seen Ankara walk back some of its support of Uighur refugees, who now say Turkish police are interrogating them and accusing them of terrorism.
    “Allegations concerning the extradition of Uighur Turks from Turkey to third countries are mere fabrication and as such are far from reflecting the truth," Serdar Kilic, Turkey's ambassador to the U.S., told Axios in a statement.
    “Given our historical background and the fact that we share a common language, religion and culture with the Uighur Turks, any issue pertaining to their well-being holds a special place on our agenda," he said.
    "Extradition and judicial assistance requests by China, as is the case of any other third country, are examined in accordance with the international law, on the basis of full respect to human rights and within the framework of established practice."

    What to watch: Turkey and China signed a draft extradition treaty in 2017, but the Turkish Parliament has not yet ratified it.

    If passed, Turkey would be obligated, with some exceptions, to abide by Chinese government extradition requests. https://www.axios.com/documents-chin...fae274e2d.html

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    US Congress approves China sanctions over Uighur crackdown
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    The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved legislation calling for sanctions on Chinese officials deemed responsible for the oppression of Uighur Muslims, sending the bill to the White House for President Donald Trump to veto or sign into law.

    The Uighur Human Rights Act passed by a 413-1 vote on Wednesday and came hours after Secretary of State Mike Pomp notified Congress that the administration no longer considered Hong Kong autonomous from China.
    More:

    US Senate approves bill to sanction China over Uighur rights

    Growing evidence Uighurs forced to work in China factories: Report

    UN demands 'unfettered access' for China Uighur region visit

    The bill calls for sanctions against those responsible for the repression of Uighurs and other Muslim groups in China's Xinjiang province, where the United Nations estimates that more than a million Muslims have been detained in camps.

    It singles out the region's Communist Party secretary, Chen Quanguo, a member of China's powerful Politburo, as responsible for "gross human rights violations" against them.

    "Beijing's barbarous actions targeting the Uighur people are an outrage to the collective conscience of the world," Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, told the house in support of the bill.

    The message was bipartisan, with Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, accusing China of "state-sponsored cultural genocide".

    Beijing is out to "completely eradicate an entire culture simply because it doesn't fit within what the Chinese Communist Party deems 'Chinese'," McCaul said. "We can't sit idly by and allow this to continue... Our silence will be complicit, and our inaction will be our appeasement."
    'Meaningful action'

    The near-unanimous support in Congress - the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent - puts pressure on Trump to impose human rights sanctions on China.

    Although Trump's fellow Republicans in Congress said they expected he would sign the bill, the White House has not yet indicated whether he will do so. Aides did not respond to requests for comment.

    Relations between Trump and China's government have become increasingly tense in recent weeks as Trump has blamed Beijing for worsening the coronavirus pandemic.

    Uighur activists welcomed the bill's passage.

    "We urge President Trump to sign the Uyghur Human Rights Policy into law as a matter of priority and take immediate steps to implement it," said Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, in a statement.

    "Our community needs the US government and governments around the world to take real, meaningful action, as is provided for in this act. After years of suffering and frustration, the Uighur people need hope."

    China denies mistreatment and says the camps provide vocational training.

    Uighur activists and human rights groups have countered that many of those held are people with advanced degrees and business owners who are influential in their communities and have no need for any special education.

    People in the internment camps have described being subjected to forced political indoctrination, torture, beatings, and denial of food and medicine, and say they have been prohibited from practising their religion or speaking their language.

    While China has denied these accounts, it refuses to allow independent inspections.

    After an earlier version of the law passed in December, the Chinese foreign ministry accused the US of hypocrisy in its own "counter-terrorism" efforts.

    "This bill deliberately smears the human rights condition in Xinjiang, slanders China's efforts in de-radicalization and counter-terrorism and viciously attacks the Chinese government's Xinjiang policy," said foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, urging the US to stop the law.
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    Turkey says export of dairy products to China will resume

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    ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s exports of milk and other dairy products to China will resume, Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said on Thursday, and added that 54 Turkish companies will be able to export to China.

    In February, Turkey temporarily halted imports of livestock and animal fats from China over the coronavirus outbreak. In a tweet, Pekcan said she welcomed the Chinese dairy market opening to Turkish exporters, after Chinese authorities deemed Turkey an exportable country.

    Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Chris Reese
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    As tensions rise over Hong Kong the tragedy of China's Uighurs goes unnoticed - Reaction
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    In response to China’s clampdown on the former province Britain has embraced Hong Kongers, offering a path to UK citizenship for 3 million residents of the territory in the biggest humanitarian gesture by the country since 1972. But we must not forget the more numerous and more vulnerable Chinese mainland victims of Beijing’s authoritarianism: the Uighurs.

    Through my humanitarian work with the UN and through my organisation, Charity Right, I’ve worked with refugees and the destitute around the world. But few communities are in as dire a situation as the inhabitants of China’s Xinjiang province, which they themselves often call East Turkestan owing to their Turkic (rather than Han Chinese) ethnicity. Working with Uighur refugee families on the ground in Turkey has shown me not only the tragedy of their situation, but the potential scope of its effects on Britain and Europe.

    If we do not swiftly improve conditions for the persecuted Muslim minority, we should expect another refugee crisis in Europe, far larger than the crisis of 2014-2015.

    Embracing Hong Kong, while continuing tacitly to accept mistreatment of Xinjiang’s Uighurs, is understandable. There are 3 million current or prior holders of Hong Kong BNO passports, but given that there are perhaps 25 million Uighurs there is no country or bloc in the world that could feasibly offer them sanctuary.

    And Hong Kong is a relatively wealthy territory. Hong Kongers have been described by conservative commentators like Daniel Hannan as ‘enterprising’ – not an adjective commonly used with the Uighurs who are socially, economically and culturally boycotted by Beijing.

    It’s inevitable that Western capitals would prefer that condemnation of China focused on Hong Kong not Xinjiang, because their efforts so far have exposed their impotence. In October, the UK and 22 other countries condemned China for its treatment of the Uighurs. The next day, 37 countries – almost half of which are Muslim-majority states – jumped to Beijing’s defence.

    On the world stage money talks, and China is shouting. The second largest economy in the world is unlikely to take kindly to slaps on the wrist, in the same way that the US reacted indignantly at China’s criticism of its racist past. It is also time for Britain to stop moralising – no doubt China views Bloody Sunday in the same way that Britain views Tiananmen Square.

    Rather than indulging in gesture politics, the West should understand Beijing’s position in the disputed region and engage with it to improve conditions.

    The Bloody Sunday comparison is relevant, because China has been grappling with security issues in Xinjiang for many years. Separatist movements, with some having links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban, have emerged.

    China is an aggressively collectivist nation, built on notions of Confucian harmony and conformity, not the Enlightenment values of individualism and freedom. Being forced to sing the national anthem and speak Mandarin is, rightly or wrongly, par for the course in China, and it is perfectly possible that many Chinese officials genuinely see the Uighur internment camps as ‘re-education camps’.

    Rationalising Beijing’s behaviour is not the same as justifying it – we must focus on the former, whilst avoiding the latter. The severity of the Uighurs’ mistreatment make it all the more essential that we engage with, rather than alienate, China.

    As well as being in line with human rights and the values of freedom and pluralism that are often championed in European and North American capitals, this engagement is also in our self-interest.

    It is a matter of time, on the current trajectory, until there is a mass exodus of Uighurs from China to Europe and North America. Just as the Syrian Regime was happy to see millions of their Sunni opponents outcast to the West, Beijing would likely not oppose the vacating of resource rich Xinjiang, allowing the Belt and Road Initiative to proceed through the region unhindered and ending by default international scrutiny of its behaviour in the province.

    Already many Uighurs have sought asylum in Europe after entering via student or visit visas, or human traffickers.

    The route to Europe is relatively straightforward: 74 countries offer visa-free or visa on arrival entry to Chinese nationals. All a Uighur refugee must do is book a ticket to an African nation with a transit in Europe, or to a Latin American country with a stopover in the US. While transiting, presenting oneself for asylum is relatively straightforward, and the well-documented treatment of Uighurs makes the likely success of these asylum claims high.

    The only bottleneck in this is access to Chinese passports, the issuing of which in Xinjiang has been limited in recent years. All Beijing needs to do is reopen the passport offices, and their problem will quickly become Berlin’s, London’s or Washington’s.

    Many in those capitals may hope that, as with the last crisis, it will become not their problem but Ankara’s. Turkey already hosts more refugees per capita than any other country, but we should not assume that Turkey will again act as the West’s humanitarian buffer.

    Charity Right acts on the ground in Turkey, where 50,000 Uighur refugees currently reside. We are committed to providing food security and Turkish lessons to newly arrived refugees, many of whom are women and unaccompanied children. As well as the toll this takes on them, I have seen first hand the strains on Turkey’s economy, politics and society that comes with hosting the world’s largest refugee population.

    To secure Uighur rights, create a new relationship with Beijing and protect Europe and North America from the toll of another migrant crisis, we need to keep the tragedy in Xinjiang a top priority in our dealings with the Chinese state. Hong Kong may be an easier nut to crack, but Xinjiang will be the defining factor in this generation of Western-Chinese relations. https://reaction.life/as-tensions-ri...oes-unnoticed/

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    Marokko poeslief tegen china en blijft zaken doen met china terwijl de Oeigoerse moslims in china worden onderdrukt

    die handel met China is wel minimaal. bij Turkije is de handel veel meer. en Oeigoeren zitten er indd vast met hulp van Turkse regering.
    Als buurman jou slaat, waarom zou ik als langs joggende burger de buurman (terug)slaan.
    vooruit kijken is regeren.

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    Turkey accepted China's extradition request for Uighur man - report

    May 20 2020 11:26 Gmt+3
    Last Updated On: May 20 2020 11:44 Gmt+3

    Documents obtained by news website Axios revealed that Turkey accepted Chinese request of extradition of a Uighur man who fled Xinjiang.

    "The dossier is 92 pages long and includes the Chinese government extradition request, dated May 2016, supporting police reports, Turkish translations provided by the Chinese government, and Turkish government documents from 2017 indicating the request was accepted by the Turkish Ministry of Justice and that court proceedings were initiated," Axios said.

    Enver Turdi, the man named in the extradition request, has lived in Turkey since early 2014 when he fled China's Xinjiang region which is home to some 10 million Uighurs.

    "Enver's lawyer obtained the dossier in early 2020, the first time that Enver says he knew for sure that the Chinese government was behind his troubles in Turkey," Axios said.

    The Turkish government openly welcomed Uighurs fleeing China before 2017, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was an outspoken champion of Uighur rights until recently.

    Many Uighurs have traditionally viewed Turkey as an advocate for their rights and a place of refuge from repressive Chinese rule. But, now all that has changed. Uighurs say they are now less free to practice religion and gather in protest. Ankara has been quietly deporting small numbers of Uighurs, that more than 1,000 Uighurs are currently in jail in Turkey, and the Chinese embassy in Ankara has opened lawsuits against Uighurs in Turkey for terrorism, kidnapping, and other offences.

    And, Erdoğan's recent silence on Uighurs' problems is evidently down to his desire to build stronger economic ties with China as a result of Turkey’s deteriorating relationships with the United States and Europe.
    1. https://ahvalnews.com/turkey-china/t...hur-man-report
    2. https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/...sident-erdogan

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    Die handel is niet minimaal. Er wordt tenslotte gehandeld terwijl de moslims in china worden onderdrukt. Omdat jij als joggende burger bang bent om terug te slaan daarom. Zelfs de telefoon die jij in je handen hebt komt uit china. Jij bent poeslief tegen chinezen.
    de handel is wel minimaal tussen Marokko en China. je hebt gelijk dat ie niet minimaal is tussen Turkije en China en daar komt Oeigoeren verkopen ook bij kijken, daar heb je gelijk in. je bent tering dom maar dat wist ik al. mijn voorbeeld van de buurman slaan heeft betrekking op jouw zielige 'wraakje'. Turkije verkoopt Oeigoeren aan China dus Marokko mag niet handelen met China. Turkije (geslagen buurman) moet China (de slaande buurman) aanspreken (terugslaan) en niet Marokko (de langs joggende burger).
    begrijp je het nu beter of vat je hem nog niet? zou me niks verbazen

    logica van een turk:
    buurman (China) slaat zijn buurman (Turkije) en de langsjoggende burger (Marokko) zag dat.
    turk be like: de langsjoggende burger durft niet terug te slaan, want hij is bang

    BTW: Mijn telefoon komt uit Amerika, voor alle duidelijkheid. Ik koop niet van China zoals jij dat doet.
    vooruit kijken is regeren.

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    Erdie is te druk met travestieten om zich te bekomeren om de moslims in china daarom noemen ze hem de tranny kalief .

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    Dit bericht is verborgen omdat Ahmet1989 is opgenomen in je negeerlijst.
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