Tag: xinjiang

• Apple Hosts Apps Run by China Paramilitary Group Accused of Uyghur Genocide

  March 27, 2021

  Apple’s App Store has been distributing more than a dozen apps created by a Chinese organization sanctioned by the U.S. for human rights abuses against Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang… more ›

• As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too

  December 20, 2020

  The website for the tech titan’s cloud business described facial recognition software that could detect members of a minority group whose persecution has drawn international condemnation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html more ›

• China has built 380 internment camps in Xinjiang, study finds

  September 24, 2020

  China has built nearly 400 internment camps in Xinjiang region, with construction on dozens continuing over the last two years, even as Chinese authorities said their “re-education” system was winding… more ›

• China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

  September 1, 2020

  China has secretly built scores of massive new prison and internment camps in the past three years, dramatically escalating its campaign against Muslim minorities even as it publicly claimed the detainees had… more ›

• AP Exclusive: Hair weaves from Chinese prison camps seized

  July 26, 2020

  Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a… more ›

• The World’s Most Technologically Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang

  July 21, 2020

  Two recent disturbing events may finally awaken the world to the scale and horror of the atrocities being committed against the Uighurs, a mostly secular Muslim ethnic minority, in Xinjiang,… more ›

• China’s Global Threat to Human Rights

  January 15, 2020

  An extraordinary threat requires a commensurate response—and much still can be done to defend human rights worldwide from Beijing’s frontal attack. Despite the Chinese government’s power and hostility to human… more ›

• Xinjiang’s New Slavery

  December 12, 2019

  “Employment: Yarkant County satellite factory [for] persons in detention or reeducation. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/11/cotton-china-uighur-labor-xinjiang-new-slavery/ more ›

• Tell the World: The Silent Plight of China’s Uighurs

  October 27, 2019

  Most members of the Australian Uighur community are missing someone. They all say they have a family member detained, imprisoned or trapped in what the Chinese call the Xinjiang Uighur… more ›