@RushanAbbas RT by @badiucao: A spot-on image by @badiucao. What Putin and #Xi are doing in the name of "peace": -Invasion of #Ukraine -#UyghurGenocide #StandWithUkraine #EndUyghurGenocide https://nitter.hongkongers.net/RushanAbbas/status/1637913514919571456#m

.@lizalinwsj & @joshchin detail Silicon Valley's involvement in the buildup of #China's surveillance state & how the technology is used to surveil #Uyghurs in #EastTurkistan.

Host @MichaelJMorell

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinas-buildup-of-the-surveillance-state-intelligence-matters/

The resolution calls for sanctions against those responsible for crimes against humanity to be intensified, for better coordination regarding #Chinese overseas police service stations & for addressing freedom of expression during official talks with #China.

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https://www.europeantimes.news/2023/01/human-rights-breaches-in-china-chad-and-bahrain/

#China’s state-run bodies that oversee legally recognized religions are complicit in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violation of religious freedom by the #Chinese Communist Party.

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https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/2022%20Factsheet%20-%20China%20State-Controlled%20Religion.pdf

Governments reaching across borders to harass and persecute their own citizens, whether digitally or physically, is an increasingly prevalent phenomenon that scholars label #TransnationalRepression. One of the worst offenders is #China.

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https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/2022-major-themes/

Most of the 18 miners trapped underground in a collapsed gold mine in #EastTurkistan’s Qarayaghach town of Ghulja county, have been identified as #Uyghur amid ongoing rescue operations five days after the disaster occurred.

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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/mine-collapse-12292022172118.html/ampRFA

Abdulla Sawut, 72, A renowned #Uyghur writer & poet in poor health when released from prison died on Dec. 18 because he could not obtain food or medical treatment amid a strict coronavirus lockdown.

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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/abdulla-sawut-12292022135819.html

#Chinese police can set up “alarms” for various protest activities using a software by Hikvision. Descriptions of protest activity listed include “gathering crowds to disrupt order in public places”, “unlawful assembly, procession, demonstration”…

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/29/china-surveillance-protests-alarms-cameras-hikvision?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

An #Uyghur Muslim preacher serving a five-year sentence in #EastTurkistan for making pilgrimage to Mecca died of liver cancer in prison in February, according to a police officer who works in the district where the preacher resided.

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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/omar-huseyin-12282022174838.html

"Why should we become a tool for #China's propaganda? They said that a humanitarian delegation from Türkiye could come & examine (the region). It's been five years since #Xi proposed this. Why have you been preventing this…," Turkish FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

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https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/chinas-unease-over-turkiyes-support-for-uyghur-has-hurt-ties-fm-cavusoglu-3658032

The #UrumchiFire is part of a scene of state terror, launched by #China against the #Uyghur people.
A terror state can take as hostages hundreds or thousands, but #China has “successfully” taken as hostages more than 3 million Uyghurs.

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https://bitterwinter.org/urumqi-fire-was-state-terror-european-parliament/

“While keeping firm in our principles & maintaining the #Muslim narrative at the forefront of our activism, we must continue to be a voice of solidarity for #Uyghurs & other Turkic Muslims…persecuted in Chinese-occupied East Turkestan.”

By @Islam21c

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https://www.islam21c.com/campaigns/when-islam21c-came-together-with-exiled-uyghurs-in-turkiye/

A growing number of govs are launching investigations into clandestine #Chinese police stations operating in their countries.

It follows a series of investigations by @SafeguardDefend, which put a spotlight on the alleged overseas policing operations.

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https://www.polygraph.info/a/fact-check-beijing-deflects-amid-revelations-about-alleged-overseas-police-stations/6889138.html

The #Chinese gov tried to force back 4 #Uyghurs who have been targeted heavily within & outside #EastTurkistan from Saudi Arabia. Among the four was a 13-year-old girl who, along with her mother, risks being sent to a concentration camp.

By @FrankieVetch

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https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/2022-crossborder-repression-campaigns/

15 legislatures globally called on their respective governments to investigate and suspend commercial activities with companies providing the #Chinese government with technologies to carry out biometric surveillance in #EastTurkistan.

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https://www.aninews.in/news/world/others/chinas-dna-profiling-campaigns-attract-global-opposition-report20221227161651/

“Rasūlullāh Muhammad ﷺ likened the ‪#Muslim‬ Ummah to the human body. When one limb is injured, the whole body feels the pain… We should not celebrate Xi’s words of support for ‪#Palestine‬ while he continues to kill ‪#Uyghurs‬ in ‪#EastTurkistan‬.”
@‪Islam21c
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‪https://www.islam21c.com/campaigns/an-ummah-centric-perspective-on-china-saudi-co-operation/‬

British lawmaker Lord David Alton & member of IPAC on #China has urged BBC News to rethink its commercial decision to produce ads for #Chinese state media.
StoryWorks produced a glossy ad campaign for CGTN after it was banned from broadcasting in the UK.
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https://deadline.com/2022/12/bbc-must-review-ads-for-china-lord-david-alton-1235204967/amp/

The online retail giant offers a variety of products from Tiandy, the #Chinese company that the US government blacklisted last week for its involvement in #China’s repression of #Uyghurs & links to the Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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https://freebeacon.com/national-security/the-united-states-blacklisted-this-chinese-company-for-its-role-in-the-uyghar-genocide-you-can-still-buy-its-cameras-on-amazon/amp/

#Chinese regime authorities have detained Behtiyar Sadir, 46, a well-known #Uyghur nutritionist & national-level health coach for messages he posted on social media, according to Sweden-based siblings & police in #Urumchi.
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https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/behtiyar-sadir-12212022173133.html/ampRFA

The senate finance committee has opened an inquiry into whether auto makers including @tesla Inc. & General Motors are using parts made with #UyghurForcedLabor.
The committee asked the CEOs of 8 car manufacturers to provide detailed information on their supply chains.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-gm-among-car-makers-facing-senate-inquiry-into-possible-links-to-uyghur-forced-labor-11671722563