Dr. Olsi, a scholar and journalist disapproving of Western powers, joins Chinese-sanctioned visit to a Xinjiang re-education center to expose āWestern Propagandaā, only to witness George Orwell's 1984.
"... really shocked, didn't expect to see such a thing."
"This is a massive- a massive unimaginable human rights violation."
"I am sorry my Chinese friends, what you are doing to these people, there is no law in the world that can justify it."
https://youtu.be/VC1THdpRCPI
https://youtu.be/OwYNOx7KG0s
#nationalism
#Xinjing
"... really shocked, didn't expect to see such a thing."
"This is a massive- a massive unimaginable human rights violation."
"I am sorry my Chinese friends, what you are doing to these people, there is no law in the world that can justify it."
https://youtu.be/VC1THdpRCPI
https://youtu.be/OwYNOx7KG0s
#nationalism
#Xinjing
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The situation in Xinjiang [ę°ē - Ų“ŁŁŲ¬Ų§Ś ]: report on my latest visit to China [part 1]
Dr. Olsi Jazexhi speaks about the latest situation of Muslims and Uighurs in Xinjiang, China. He describes the situation inside the detention centers - Vocational Training Institutions of Xinjiang, the fear and intimidation against the Uighurs in the nameā¦
With facial recognition and other high-tech equipment monitoring their every move, ordinary people are starting to feel that they live in a prisonlike reality
Residents in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang have been living under the CCPās ādigital despotismā for quite some time, as everything they do is captured by countless surveillance cameras, and they need to scan their faces or IDs to enter places of worship or even their homes.
As the Xinjiang-style surveillance is spreading rapidly across other regions of China, now also targeting the Han population, the whole country will likely soon be turned into a giant prison.
In June, the Public Security Bureau of a locality in the southeastern province of Jiangxi installed 195 surveillance cameras in a residential compound under its jurisdiction.
People cannot enter unless they scan their face and ID card. If someone scans their face while wearing glasses or a face mask, they are denied entrance... If ID information and facial recognition donāt match, the machine sends data to the police. If persons āblacklistedā by the state scan their faces or ID cards, the Public Security Bureau is automatically notified, and the police automatically arrive to arrest them.
Facial images and ID information remain in the system after the first scan, and people continue to be surveilled no matter where they go.
āI am monitored every day when I scan my face leaving and returning home. I always feel as if a person is watching me. Itās very stifling,ā said a woman who lives in the residential complex.
It is not only residents who have to scan their faces, but their guests also have to go through the same procedure, the system linking their information with the resident whom they visit.
āThis is a serious human rights violation! By installing these high-tech facial recognition systems, the CCP is tying a rope around our necks and controlling us like weāre animals. This is so evil and so ridiculous!ā
It is expected that facial recognition systems will be fully operational in 59 public housing projects run by the Beijing Municipal Guaranteed Housing Center until the end of October, adding information on more people to the database.
The mass surveillance is especially detrimental to dissidents, religious group members, and others who have been blacklisted by the government, because information about them may help authorities to persecute and arrest them.
Since most house churches have set up meeting venues in rental houses or the homes of Christians, under high-tech surveillance, it has become even more difficult and dangerous for them to assemble.
āIf we want to enter a residential area to attend a gathering or visit fellow believers, we are often questioned about whom weāre visiting, how long weāre staying, and what weāre doing. Security guards will possess all this information, and as soon as one of us is arrested, they will know who has visited him or her and with whom he or she held gatherings together,ā said a house church Christian, adding that he feels suffocated by the increasingly tight surveillance.
Source: https://bitterwinter.org/china-is-suffocating-citizens-with-increasing-surveillance/?fbclid=IwAR3V9S9T6YeEaXj3TeMJEH7p7seLcMhpZp5Sv7Ot4RYhpAhCOOhfIDezGlI
#Xinjing
#religion
#BigBrotherChina
#ChinaIsWatching
Residents in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang have been living under the CCPās ādigital despotismā for quite some time, as everything they do is captured by countless surveillance cameras, and they need to scan their faces or IDs to enter places of worship or even their homes.
As the Xinjiang-style surveillance is spreading rapidly across other regions of China, now also targeting the Han population, the whole country will likely soon be turned into a giant prison.
In June, the Public Security Bureau of a locality in the southeastern province of Jiangxi installed 195 surveillance cameras in a residential compound under its jurisdiction.
People cannot enter unless they scan their face and ID card. If someone scans their face while wearing glasses or a face mask, they are denied entrance... If ID information and facial recognition donāt match, the machine sends data to the police. If persons āblacklistedā by the state scan their faces or ID cards, the Public Security Bureau is automatically notified, and the police automatically arrive to arrest them.
Facial images and ID information remain in the system after the first scan, and people continue to be surveilled no matter where they go.
āI am monitored every day when I scan my face leaving and returning home. I always feel as if a person is watching me. Itās very stifling,ā said a woman who lives in the residential complex.
It is not only residents who have to scan their faces, but their guests also have to go through the same procedure, the system linking their information with the resident whom they visit.
āThis is a serious human rights violation! By installing these high-tech facial recognition systems, the CCP is tying a rope around our necks and controlling us like weāre animals. This is so evil and so ridiculous!ā
It is expected that facial recognition systems will be fully operational in 59 public housing projects run by the Beijing Municipal Guaranteed Housing Center until the end of October, adding information on more people to the database.
The mass surveillance is especially detrimental to dissidents, religious group members, and others who have been blacklisted by the government, because information about them may help authorities to persecute and arrest them.
Since most house churches have set up meeting venues in rental houses or the homes of Christians, under high-tech surveillance, it has become even more difficult and dangerous for them to assemble.
āIf we want to enter a residential area to attend a gathering or visit fellow believers, we are often questioned about whom weāre visiting, how long weāre staying, and what weāre doing. Security guards will possess all this information, and as soon as one of us is arrested, they will know who has visited him or her and with whom he or she held gatherings together,ā said a house church Christian, adding that he feels suffocated by the increasingly tight surveillance.
Source: https://bitterwinter.org/china-is-suffocating-citizens-with-increasing-surveillance/?fbclid=IwAR3V9S9T6YeEaXj3TeMJEH7p7seLcMhpZp5Sv7Ot4RYhpAhCOOhfIDezGlI
#Xinjing
#religion
#BigBrotherChina
#ChinaIsWatching
More questions on human rights for Beijing Winter Olympics
A spokeswoman for the World Uyghur Congress Zumretay Arkin was born in Xinjiang, immigrated to Canada and still has family in northwestern China. She described Xinjiang as a human-right issue, not simply a political issue.
She was disappointed with the respond of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). IOC repeated its stance that itās not a political body and doesnāt take a position on human-rights issues. It simply organizes sports events. And it said, āAwardingntje Olympic Games to a national Olympic Committee does not mean that IOC agrees with the political structure, social circumstances or human rights in its country.ā
Source: The Association Press #Oct16
https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-juan-antonio-samaranch-beijing-2020-tokyo-olympics-china-d03b46950b26420664677b8d1aa8caa2
#BeijingWinterOlympics #Xinjing #Ugyhur #IOC
A spokeswoman for the World Uyghur Congress Zumretay Arkin was born in Xinjiang, immigrated to Canada and still has family in northwestern China. She described Xinjiang as a human-right issue, not simply a political issue.
She was disappointed with the respond of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). IOC repeated its stance that itās not a political body and doesnāt take a position on human-rights issues. It simply organizes sports events. And it said, āAwardingntje Olympic Games to a national Olympic Committee does not mean that IOC agrees with the political structure, social circumstances or human rights in its country.ā
Source: The Association Press #Oct16
https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-juan-antonio-samaranch-beijing-2020-tokyo-olympics-china-d03b46950b26420664677b8d1aa8caa2
#BeijingWinterOlympics #Xinjing #Ugyhur #IOC