Tuesday, July 9, 2019

"This is a very serious issue and a global issue" -Ho

 -More than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in a network of internment camps in China's Xinjiang region (AFP Photo/GREG BAKER)
7-2-19  Beijing denies forcibly holding people in what it describes as "vocational education centres" where "trainees" learn Mandarin and job skills in an effort to steer them away from religious extremism.  More than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in a network of internment camps in China's Xinjiang region (AFP Photo/GREG BAKER)      https://news.yahoo.com/erdogan-says-people-live-happily-xinjiang-chinese-state-043055699.html
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7-3-19  "They call them 'vocation centers,'" the man tells Yeung, his voice barely above a whisper.  "These places are prisons."   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-puts-uighurs-uyghyrs-muslim-children-in-prison-re-education-internment-camps-vice-news/
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6-25-19  "By setting up vocational education and training centers in accordance with the law, we aim to educate and save those who were influenced by religious extremism and committed minor legal offences," said Xinjiang Vice-Governor Erkin Tuniyaz , who is a Uighur.   https://news.yahoo.com/u-n-rights-forum-xinjiang-093723088.html;_ylt=AwrXnCB4SiVdqzkAKwvQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTEyZDNoOXBqBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjgzNTdfMQRzZWMDc3I-
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-a Xinjiang border
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7-8-19  
  In an interview with the Associated Press before the UN session, pop star Ho said the implications of China's alleged rights abuses went far beyond Hong Kong, in places like Tibet and China's Xinjiang region, home to many Uighur Muslims.  "This is a very serious issue and a global issue, that not only touches Hong Kong people, but really the global world — where you see governments they are silencing themselves, because of being afraid of political reprisal, economic reprisal," she said.  https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/hong-kong-singer-protester-faces-135615966.html


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