12-7-18 Uyghur American Association
"They [police] used electric baton and they electricized me twice in one interrogation," Hassan recalls his experience of being monitored as a teacher at a vocational training college and having been arrested twice, beaten. Since losing contact with his family three years ago, Hassan's sister and two nephews (and other family members) have allegedly been arrested. https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2018/12/world-abandoned-uighur-muslims-181206204035032.html
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12-4-18 “turn Uighurs and other Moslems into normal people”
China’s state-run Global Times wrote: “The West should be consistent over its own value system. How can it be fine to kill terrorists with missiles but a humanitarian crisis when #Xinjiang attempts to turn them into normal people?”. https://www.businessinsider.com/china-self-own-uighur-muslims-normal-people-terrorism-isis-2018-12?r=UK&IR=T
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10-13-18 Turghunjan owned a jewellery business and for four years was regularly travelling between Turkey and China. During one of those trips in mid-2017 his family members were arrested without any explanation and his bank accounts frozen.
"I have nothing to lose, as they have arrested my wife for nothing, and I don't know the whereabouts of my two baby twins and teenage boy," he said. "We only want peace, security, democracy and freedom. People like me--who are living outside China and who lost contact with their family members--are giving tremendous sacrifices for peace."
He broke down and sobbed while telling me his story. This has been one of many Uighur families that have been broken by Beijing's continuing repression in Xinjiang (East Turkestan). https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/china-erase-uighurs-culture-181012155613937.html
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After locking up all the #Uyghur males in concentration camps, #China is forcing Uyghur women to marry #Chinese men. A genocide is taking place in open yet the international community including #Turkic & #Muslim countries continue to ignore the cries of Uyghur #Muslims. 25 May 2018 https://twitter.com/abdughenisabit/status/1000131015904555009?lang=en
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Attorney Frank Pitre said he has learned that the arm attached to a “jumper line” which helps transition power on the 115,000-volt transmission line was removed by investigators as part of their probe into what may have ignited the Camp Fire on Nov. 8….
In December 2012 a fierce winter storm with winds reaching 55 mph at times toppled five other lattice-steel towers that support the same transmission line. The utility rebuilt those towers in 2016 but did not replace the rest of the aging towers, Pitre said, adding that the structures are at least 50 years old.
The Caribou transmission line was originally built in 1919, according to CPUC records. Pitre said corrosion, in conjunction with high winds in the area the morning of the fire, could have contributed to the malfunction.
“Given the age of the equipment that failed in 2012, a thorough evaluation of the integrity of entire line should have been done in order to decide if additional equipment along the line should have been replaced,” Pitre said. “It could have corroded from the inside out like a cancer.” https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2018/12/06/why-did-fire-investigators-remove-pge-transmission-tower-part-in-camp-fire-probe-2/
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PG&E faces an estimated $17 billion in liabilities for the 2017 fires, and CoreLogic Inc. expects losses from the Camp Fire to reach as high as $13 billion. While one state lawmaker plans legislation to help the company deal with any costs arising from the Camp Fire, another wants it broken up. And the state’s utilities commission is exploring whether PG&E or possibly split into pieces. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-02/embattled-pg-e-has-long-history-with-california-s-new-governor
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5-1-18 Entering Crimea “[FSB officers] ask you who you’ll meet. This interrogation can take hours. If the journalist is quite well-known they try not to do it. If you’re young, if you’re Ukrainian, or carry equipment, you’re more likely to be interrogated. It can be quite nerve-wracking.”
Journalists can be asked to display the content of their phones or computers, although, according to Russian law, they cannot be forced to provide passwords to law enforcement. Officers can search hard drives or flashcards. This means journalists are advised to wipe any sensitive information which could compromise their sources before crossing the border. FSB agents have also been known to ask journalists for their phones’ IMEI number, which could allow them to track the person’s movements when they are reporting in the peninsula.... "in Crimea the role of professional journalists has been taken over by average citizens who film videos of searches in Tatar houses, go to politically motivated trials to cover them. Now authorities have started persecuting citizen journalists as well.” https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2018/05/what-does-it-take-for-a-journalist-to-enter-crimea/
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12-6-18 City authorities in St. Petersburg have ruled that plaques commemorating victims of Soviet persecutions are "inexpedient" and “illegal” and should be removed from the streets. The City Committee for Development and Architecture announced its ruling in an official letter that was posted on December 6 on the Facebook account of Andrei Pivovarov, the chairman of the Open Russia civic movement.
The letter is addressed to an aide of lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, Aleksandr Mokhnatkin, who had questioned the legality of the plaques, calling them "illegal ads." The committee wrote in its letter that it had instructed St. Petersburg's district authorities to consider the plaques illegal and to remove them.
Activists of the Last Address project, launched in 2014, place memorial plaques with names of the victims of the Great Purge launched by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in the 1930s on the houses where they lived before their arrests. About 800 such plaques have been placed in dozens of cities in Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova and the Czech Republic. https://www.rferl.org/a/st-petersburg-plaques-commemorating-soviet-purge-victims-ruled-illegal-/29641417.html
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