Hong Kong to impose ‘national security’ schools curriculum
Hong Kong’s education bureau released the guidelines on Feb 2. The new national security education curriculum will force teachers to warn primary students as young as six years old against “subversion” and “foreign interference”.
The bureau advised teachers and principals to closely inspect noticeboards in classrooms and clear out library books that “endanger national security”. In addition to that, schools are also expected to set up a working group and submit proposals and reports to the bureau to implement the changes from August.
Teachers of geography and biology have to ensure national security topic included; for example, the bureau proposed Biology students to learn how the local and mainland Chinese government protected the country during the pandemic.
Source: FT #Feb02
https://www.ft.com/content/7a8e473d-86c1-4875-811b-575df79a502a
#HongKongNationalSecurityLaw #SecurityLawEducationCurriculum #HongKong
Hong Kong’s education bureau released the guidelines on Feb 2. The new national security education curriculum will force teachers to warn primary students as young as six years old against “subversion” and “foreign interference”.
The bureau advised teachers and principals to closely inspect noticeboards in classrooms and clear out library books that “endanger national security”. In addition to that, schools are also expected to set up a working group and submit proposals and reports to the bureau to implement the changes from August.
Teachers of geography and biology have to ensure national security topic included; for example, the bureau proposed Biology students to learn how the local and mainland Chinese government protected the country during the pandemic.
Source: FT #Feb02
https://www.ft.com/content/7a8e473d-86c1-4875-811b-575df79a502a
#HongKongNationalSecurityLaw #SecurityLawEducationCurriculum #HongKong
'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
Source: BBC #Feb02
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'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.
The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’
In the aftermath of 2020 — a year that saw both the expansion of a vast detention and forced labor system in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang and a homebound global population increasingly reliant on goods delivered anonymously to their doorstep — Pang’s book feels timely and urgent. Her argument starts here, in the room with the mushrooms, and goes like this: that the way we consume is unsustainable; that things as seemingly trivial as paper mushrooms and Halloween decorations are entangled in a system that hides atrocity by design and makes complicity — with authoritarian governments, with dangerous working conditions and even with religious persecution — part of modern life. Pang, a freelance journalist who grew up in a Mandarin-speaking household, is most effective when she is drawing out these juxtapositions, putting production and torture matter-of-factly side by side.
Source: Times #Feb02
#China #Labor #Xinjiang #Human
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/books/review/made-in-china-amelia-pang.html?referringSource=articleShare
In the aftermath of 2020 — a year that saw both the expansion of a vast detention and forced labor system in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang and a homebound global population increasingly reliant on goods delivered anonymously to their doorstep — Pang’s book feels timely and urgent. Her argument starts here, in the room with the mushrooms, and goes like this: that the way we consume is unsustainable; that things as seemingly trivial as paper mushrooms and Halloween decorations are entangled in a system that hides atrocity by design and makes complicity — with authoritarian governments, with dangerous working conditions and even with religious persecution — part of modern life. Pang, a freelance journalist who grew up in a Mandarin-speaking household, is most effective when she is drawing out these juxtapositions, putting production and torture matter-of-factly side by side.
Source: Times #Feb02
#China #Labor #Xinjiang #Human
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/books/review/made-in-china-amelia-pang.html?referringSource=articleShare
NY Times
The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’
In a new book, the journalist Amelia Pang investigates the brutal system of forced labor that undergirds China’s booming export industry.
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Foreign Engineer Said the Official Software for #BeijingWinterOlympic Operates with Background Voice Recorder, Sending to China's Server
#My2022 #JonathanScott
Source: unwire.hk #Feb02
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Foreign Engineer Said the Official Software for #BeijingWinterOlympic Operates with Background Voice Recorder, Sending to China's Server
#My2022 #JonathanScott
Source: unwire.hk #Feb02
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Foreign Engineer Said the Official Software for #BeijingWinterOlympic Operates with Background Voice Recorder, Sending to China's Server
Some investigators find out by reverse engineering that "My 2022", a smartphone software for Beijing Winter Olympics, has a suspicion of sending users' voice recordings in the background.
The Chinese government requires all athletes, coaches and staff to download the application for health tracing. Users have to input personal details, such as passport information and health declaration form, 14 days before the arrival.
"My 2022" also provides functions for voice call, file transfer, and browsing news reports related Winter Olympics.
Jonathan Scott, one of the investigators, indicated that although "My 2022" operates in the background, the status will change from active to operating, in order to have the permission to monitor, and send all voice recordings to the servers in China.
However, Scott did not explain the principle behind and the app stores also claim "My 2022" not to collect users' data.
Source: unwire.hk #Feb02
https://unwire.hk/2022/02/02/my2022-2/fun-tech/?fbclid=IwAR1KdgufRyBruUzXP9ar1OIjpvDVo4odMgefr3nr1Qdy614fuCDQD-QNVhA
#surveillance #My2022 #JonathanScott
Foreign Engineer Said the Official Software for #BeijingWinterOlympic Operates with Background Voice Recorder, Sending to China's Server
Some investigators find out by reverse engineering that "My 2022", a smartphone software for Beijing Winter Olympics, has a suspicion of sending users' voice recordings in the background.
The Chinese government requires all athletes, coaches and staff to download the application for health tracing. Users have to input personal details, such as passport information and health declaration form, 14 days before the arrival.
"My 2022" also provides functions for voice call, file transfer, and browsing news reports related Winter Olympics.
Jonathan Scott, one of the investigators, indicated that although "My 2022" operates in the background, the status will change from active to operating, in order to have the permission to monitor, and send all voice recordings to the servers in China.
However, Scott did not explain the principle behind and the app stores also claim "My 2022" not to collect users' data.
Source: unwire.hk #Feb02
https://unwire.hk/2022/02/02/my2022-2/fun-tech/?fbclid=IwAR1KdgufRyBruUzXP9ar1OIjpvDVo4odMgefr3nr1Qdy614fuCDQD-QNVhA
#surveillance #My2022 #JonathanScott
Unwire.hk
外國工程師指冬奧官方 App 程式碼啟動背景錄音 再發送至中國伺服器
有研究人員指從逆向工程中發現，專為北京冬奧而設的應用程式 「冬奧通」有監察用家之嫌，會將音頻發送至中國伺服器。 中國政府為北京冬奧推出手機應用程式 「冬奧通」，要求所有運動員、教練及工作人員等場內人士下載使用。用戶需於抵達中國前 14
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U.S. LGBTQ scholar denied visa to Hong Kong, possibly due to ties with Human Rights Watch
Source: RFI #Feb02
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U.S. LGBTQ scholar denied visa to Hong Kong, possibly due to ties with Human Rights Watch
Source: RFI #Feb02
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U.S. LGBTQ scholar denied visa to Hong Kong, possibly due to ties with Human Rights Watch
U.S. law scholar Ryan Thoreson, who studies the social and legal issues of #LGBTQ, was denied having a teaching visa from the University of Hong Kong (#HKU) as a tenured Assistant Professor. The scholar did not receive any reason for the denial.
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As there was no official explanation, Ryan Thoreson could not say whether it was because of his ties with Hong Kong Watch. "I don't think my studies have special criticisms on China as my main focus is on LGBTQ rights."
RFI said that the incident increased concerns about academic freedom in Hong Kong.
#RyanThoreson #HongKongWatch #AcademicFreedom
Source: RFI #Feb02
https://bit.ly/3GJVdej
U.S. LGBTQ scholar denied visa to Hong Kong, possibly due to ties with Human Rights Watch
U.S. law scholar Ryan Thoreson, who studies the social and legal issues of #LGBTQ, was denied having a teaching visa from the University of Hong Kong (#HKU) as a tenured Assistant Professor. The scholar did not receive any reason for the denial.
Read related article
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/32082
As there was no official explanation, Ryan Thoreson could not say whether it was because of his ties with Hong Kong Watch. "I don't think my studies have special criticisms on China as my main focus is on LGBTQ rights."
RFI said that the incident increased concerns about academic freedom in Hong Kong.
#RyanThoreson #HongKongWatch #AcademicFreedom
Source: RFI #Feb02
https://bit.ly/3GJVdej
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Hong Kong denies visa for US human rights law scholar with no apparent reasons
On 2 February, an American legal scholar specialising in LGBTQ rights said he was denied a visa to teach at a Hong Kong university, as concerns…
Hong Kong denies visa for US human rights law scholar with no apparent reasons
On 2 February, an American legal scholar specialising in LGBTQ rights said he was denied a visa to teach at a Hong Kong university, as concerns…