DNA collection, detention camps, and disappearances point to forced organ harvesting in Xinjiang The increasing suppression and surveillance faced by the Uyghur minority in China may include a deadly element: systematic, forced organ harvesting. Speaking before the UK Parliament on Dec. ...
In China's handling of the Xinjiang region, particularly its largely Muslim Uyghur population, scholars see echoes of North Korea and South African apartheid he streets in China's far western Xinjiang region are lined with surveillance cameras, even in rural villages. In some cities, police ...
Two Uyghur students who were detained after voluntarily returning to northwest China’s Xinjiang region from Egypt this year amid a call by authorities for members of the ethnic group living abroad to travel home have died in police custody, according to sources. A resident of Xinjiang, who spoke ...
Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah The Syrian conflict has an endless capability to surprise analysts as seemingly every other day a new element, unprecedented in the Syrian civil war, comes to the surface. Such is the case with the arrival of the first Chinese Army special forces unit, “the Night ...
By GERRY SHIH Posted: Dec. 29, 2017 7:00 am KAYSERI, Turkey (AP) — Iminjin Qari felt upbeat as he drove to Istanbul's airport with three empty buses and a simple task: pick up about 200 fellow Uighurs who had fled China for asylum in Turkey — and escort them to safety. But 20 burly Uighurs — ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5LnY21Hgc China has turned the northwestern region of Xinjiang into a vast experiment in domestic surveillance. WSJ investigated what life is like in a place where one's every move can be monitored with cutting-edge technology. Video: Clément Bürge/WSJ; Image: ...
Beijing: Chinese authorities are collecting DNA samples, fingerprints and other biometric data of millions of people in the country's far western Xinjiang region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Wednesday. Officials are also building a database of eye scans and blood types of ...
China’s approach to the Middle East is often described as an aloof one, defined by the pursuit of narrow self-interest. Wu Bingbing, professor of Arabic studies at Peking University, has argued that China’s approach has been guided by the maxim that it should be “detached generally and involved ...
The Chinese authorities have claimed that since 2013, “hundreds” of Uyghurs have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State and other jihadist organizations; such claims have been used as justification for new counter-terrorism policies (Xinhua, July 29. 2014). Alleged linkages between ...
Uighur militant groups are splitting, and may now compete to see who can hit China the hardest. On Feb. 27, the Islamic State released a slickly produced propaganda video detailing for the first time “scenes from the life of immigrants from East Turkistan [i.e. Xinjiang] in the land of the ...