China defends legal detention of Uighur model in Xinjiang in the video published by BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) released a video that Merdan Ghappar, a 31-year-old Uighur model, was detained in a Chinese detention camp and handcuffed to a bed earlier this month. More than two weeks later, Chinese officials responded to the BBC that Mr. Ghappar was “lawfully detained”.
The BBC quoted a statement written by the Xinjiang government that according to Article 37 of the Prison Law of the People's Republic of China, the people’s government shall assist released prisoners to settle. The statement explained that Mr. Ghappar had committed self-harm and “excessive acts against the police” during the transfer. Therefore, law enforcement officials took legal measures to stop him and lifted those measures after he stabilised emotionally. The statement mentioned Mr. Ghappar resisted epidemic prevention staff when they tried to check his body temperature, verbally insulted them and attacked them. Due to these illegal behaviours, the police had taken forcible measures and the case remained in process. However, the statement did not respond to the allegations in Mr. Ghappar’s film about the unsanitary conditions of the detention camp and the beatings. Relevant statement cannot be found.
#China #XinJiang #Uighur #Model #MerdanGhappar #detentioncamp
Source: Stand News #Aug18
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) released a video that Merdan Ghappar, a 31-year-old Uighur model, was detained in a Chinese detention camp and handcuffed to a bed earlier this month. More than two weeks later, Chinese officials responded to the BBC that Mr. Ghappar was “lawfully detained”.
The BBC quoted a statement written by the Xinjiang government that according to Article 37 of the Prison Law of the People's Republic of China, the people’s government shall assist released prisoners to settle. The statement explained that Mr. Ghappar had committed self-harm and “excessive acts against the police” during the transfer. Therefore, law enforcement officials took legal measures to stop him and lifted those measures after he stabilised emotionally. The statement mentioned Mr. Ghappar resisted epidemic prevention staff when they tried to check his body temperature, verbally insulted them and attacked them. Due to these illegal behaviours, the police had taken forcible measures and the case remained in process. However, the statement did not respond to the allegations in Mr. Ghappar’s film about the unsanitary conditions of the detention camp and the beatings. Relevant statement cannot be found.
#China #XinJiang #Uighur #Model #MerdanGhappar #detentioncamp
Source: Stand News #Aug18
380 Detention Camps Newly Built or Expanded in Xinjiang Since 2017, Says Australian Study
An investigation by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has shown that China had built nearly 400 detention camps in Xinjiang since 2017.
The ASPI discovered that since 2017, approximately 380 detention camps believed to be used to imprison Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities had been newly built or expanded in western China. The institute divided them into four categories:
• Tier 1: minimum-security re-education camps (around 108)
• Tier 2: slightly higher-security re-education camps, mostly connected to factory and warehouse (around 94)
• Tier 3: moderate-security detention centres (around 72)
• Tier 4: high-security prisons (around 107)
Investigator Nathan Ruser said while Chinese officials claimed that the detainees would be released from the camps, the authorities were still investing in new detention facilities between 2019 and 2020. The investigation report noted that at least 61 detention camps were newly built or expanded between July 2019 and July 2020. 14 of them are still under construction.
Ruser further pointed out that about half of the expanded or newly built camps are high-security prisons, meaning that the Xinjiang authorities may be transferring detainees in re-education camps to prisons.
Source: Stand News #Sep24
#China #Xinjiang #ASPI #Uyghurs #Muslim #DetentionCamp
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An investigation by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has shown that China had built nearly 400 detention camps in Xinjiang since 2017.
The ASPI discovered that since 2017, approximately 380 detention camps believed to be used to imprison Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities had been newly built or expanded in western China. The institute divided them into four categories:
• Tier 1: minimum-security re-education camps (around 108)
• Tier 2: slightly higher-security re-education camps, mostly connected to factory and warehouse (around 94)
• Tier 3: moderate-security detention centres (around 72)
• Tier 4: high-security prisons (around 107)
Investigator Nathan Ruser said while Chinese officials claimed that the detainees would be released from the camps, the authorities were still investing in new detention facilities between 2019 and 2020. The investigation report noted that at least 61 detention camps were newly built or expanded between July 2019 and July 2020. 14 of them are still under construction.
Ruser further pointed out that about half of the expanded or newly built camps are high-security prisons, meaning that the Xinjiang authorities may be transferring detainees in re-education camps to prisons.
Source: Stand News #Sep24
#China #Xinjiang #ASPI #Uyghurs #Muslim #DetentionCamp
https://bit.ly/2EG0WIn
Exclusive: China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet
Xi Jinping said China will once again step up efforts against separatism in Tibet, where ethnic Tibetans make up around 90% of the population. Beijing has set quotas for the mass transfer of Tibetan rural laborers within Tibet and other parts of China. Tibet’s regional government website said over half a million people (around 15% of the region’s population) were trained as part of the project in the first seven months of 2020. China is mirroring a pre-existing program in the west Xinjiang here in Tibet.
Source: Reuters #Sep22
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-tibet-exclusive/exclusive-china-sharply-expands-mass-labor-program-in-tibet-idUSKCN26D0GT
#Tibet #Tibetan #China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #detentioncamp
Xi Jinping said China will once again step up efforts against separatism in Tibet, where ethnic Tibetans make up around 90% of the population. Beijing has set quotas for the mass transfer of Tibetan rural laborers within Tibet and other parts of China. Tibet’s regional government website said over half a million people (around 15% of the region’s population) were trained as part of the project in the first seven months of 2020. China is mirroring a pre-existing program in the west Xinjiang here in Tibet.
Source: Reuters #Sep22
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-tibet-exclusive/exclusive-china-sharply-expands-mass-labor-program-in-tibet-idUSKCN26D0GT
#Tibet #Tibetan #China #Xinjiang #Uyghurs #detentioncamp
China’s treatment of Uighurs amounts to “genocide,” parliamentary subcommittee concludes
The House of Commons subcommittee on international human rights had its conclusion after hearing two days of testimony from witness that include “survivors of the government of China’s atrocities” in the region.
The subcommittee said that nearly two millions Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims were being detained and witnesses noted that this was the largest mass detention of a minority community since the Holocaust.
They also called on the federal government to recognize China’s actions in the region as genocide and to implement so-called Magnitsky legislation against officials responsible.
Source: The Star #Oct21
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/10/21/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-genocide-parliamentary-subcommittee-concludes.html
#Xinjiang #China #Canada #Detentioncamp #Uighuro
The House of Commons subcommittee on international human rights had its conclusion after hearing two days of testimony from witness that include “survivors of the government of China’s atrocities” in the region.
The subcommittee said that nearly two millions Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims were being detained and witnesses noted that this was the largest mass detention of a minority community since the Holocaust.
They also called on the federal government to recognize China’s actions in the region as genocide and to implement so-called Magnitsky legislation against officials responsible.
Source: The Star #Oct21
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2020/10/21/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-amounts-to-genocide-parliamentary-subcommittee-concludes.html
#Xinjiang #China #Canada #Detentioncamp #Uighuro
'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
Tursunay Ziawudun spent nine months inside China's vast and secretive system of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. She fled Xinjiang after her release and is now in the US.
Ziawudun said women were removed from the cells "every night" and raped by one or more masked Chinese men. She said she was tortured and later gang-raped on three occasions, each time by two or three men.
The BBC also interviewed a Kazakh woman from Xinjiang who was detained for 18 months in the camp system, who said she was forced to strip Uighur women naked and handcuff them, before leaving them alone with Chinese men. Afterwards, she cleaned the rooms, she said.
The Chinese men "would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates", she said.
Asked if there was a system of organised rape, she said: "Yes, rape."
Qelbinur Sedik, an Uzbek woman from Xinjiang, was among the Chinese language teachers brought into the camps and coerced into giving lessons to the detainees. Sedik has since fled China and spoken publicly about her experience.
The women's camp was "tightly controlled", Sedik told the BBC. But she heard stories, she said - signs and rumours of rape.
Source: BBC #Feb02
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071
#Uighur #Xinjiang #ReEducaitonCamp #DetentionCamp #China #Rape
Tursunay Ziawudun spent nine months inside China's vast and secretive system of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. She fled Xinjiang after her release and is now in the US.
Ziawudun said women were removed from the cells "every night" and raped by one or more masked Chinese men. She said she was tortured and later gang-raped on three occasions, each time by two or three men.
The BBC also interviewed a Kazakh woman from Xinjiang who was detained for 18 months in the camp system, who said she was forced to strip Uighur women naked and handcuff them, before leaving them alone with Chinese men. Afterwards, she cleaned the rooms, she said.
The Chinese men "would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates", she said.
Asked if there was a system of organised rape, she said: "Yes, rape."
Qelbinur Sedik, an Uzbek woman from Xinjiang, was among the Chinese language teachers brought into the camps and coerced into giving lessons to the detainees. Sedik has since fled China and spoken publicly about her experience.
The women's camp was "tightly controlled", Sedik told the BBC. But she heard stories, she said - signs and rumours of rape.
Source: BBC #Feb02
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071
#Uighur #Xinjiang #ReEducaitonCamp #DetentionCamp #China #Rape
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'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
In new testimony, former detainees of China's detention camps describe systematic rape and torture.
AP News: the family members of the dissidents claimed to have been secretly detained by Chinese government in Dubai; may be the first evidence to establish a “black site” outside of China
AP News reported, Chinese dissidents Wang Jingyu’s fiancée Wu Huan stated, she was arrested by the local police in Dubai, a major city in UAE in June this year. Ans she was jailed in a detention facility which operates by Chinese government. The report stated, this could be the first evidence to prove China has operating “Black Site” outside the country, which reflected that China will arrest dissidents and minority overseas.
According to The Voice of Germany, Wu Huan’s fiancé Wang Jingyu was persecuted by police as he supports Hong Kong protest in 2019. Wang who was 17, was being sent oversea for security. Wang questioned the Chinese official media about the authenticity of reports on deaths and injuries in the Sino-Indian conflict in February this year, and criticized the CCP, which caused the wanted by Chinese police.
Source: Stand News #Aug17
https://bit.ly/3mKap4N
#China #Dubai #DetentionCamp #CCP #Dissidents #BlackSite #HongKongProtest #HumanRight #Arrest
AP News reported, Chinese dissidents Wang Jingyu’s fiancée Wu Huan stated, she was arrested by the local police in Dubai, a major city in UAE in June this year. Ans she was jailed in a detention facility which operates by Chinese government. The report stated, this could be the first evidence to prove China has operating “Black Site” outside the country, which reflected that China will arrest dissidents and minority overseas.
According to The Voice of Germany, Wu Huan’s fiancé Wang Jingyu was persecuted by police as he supports Hong Kong protest in 2019. Wang who was 17, was being sent oversea for security. Wang questioned the Chinese official media about the authenticity of reports on deaths and injuries in the Sino-Indian conflict in February this year, and criticized the CCP, which caused the wanted by Chinese police.
Source: Stand News #Aug17
https://bit.ly/3mKap4N
#China #Dubai #DetentionCamp #CCP #Dissidents #BlackSite #HongKongProtest #HumanRight #Arrest