The Chinese totalitarian regime has oppressed all"

7-6-2015   China has no “ethnic problem” in its far west, and Muslim Uighur minorities there enjoy freedom of religion, the country’s foreign ministry has said, following anti-China protests in Turkey over Beijing’s treatment of the group.

“Uighurs live and work in peace and contentment and enjoy freedom of religion under the rules in the constitution,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters at a regular briefing on Monday.

  “So the so-called ‘Xinjiang ethnic problem’ you mentioned that has been raised in some reports simply does not exist.”     https://www.google.com/search?q=uighur&newwindow=1&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNpoudlczjAhVfHjQIHSwyC5oQ_AUIEigC&biw=1267&bih=582#imgrc=S1BFMSS2joylWM: to

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10-11-18   KUALA LUMPUR    Malaysia has freed from detention 11 ethnic Uighur Muslims who fled to the Southeast Asian nation after a Thai jailbreak last year and sent them to Turkey, their lawyer said on Oct 11, in disregard of China's request to hand them to Beijing.

  The move is likely to strain ties with China, already tested since Mahathir Mohamad became prime minister after a stunning election victory in May and cancelled more than US$20 billion worth of projects awarded to Chinese companies.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/defying-china--malaysia-releases-uighur-detainees-10817342briefing on Monday.

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Citizens of Kyrgyzstan who fear relatives are being held in notorious 're-education camps' in China's Xinjiang region appealed on November 29, 2018 to the country's China-dependent government for help in freeing them. (Photo: Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images)

3-6-19   Just six days after Rushan Abbas spoke on a panel that criticized China’s treatment of the ethnic minority Uighurs, her aunt and sister disappeared.  Abbas’ family assumed they were sent to the “re-education camps," or internment centers where the Chinese government holds around one million Uighurs in the country’s far western Xinjiang region.  Abbas is an American citizen and activist who has campaigned extensively for the rights of Uighurs in China, who are reportedly subject to religious discrimination, invasive surveillance, torture and brainwashing.  https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101869912/uighur-american-activist-criticizes-china-her-aunt-sister-go-missing

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Urumqi protest on 7-7

7- 8-19  (RFE/RL) -- The Uyghurs of western China are an ethnic Turkic people who are by tradition Muslim and who feel more kinship with the peoples of Central Asia than with the Han Chinese -- the Communist state's dominant population.  The Uyghurs are an ancient race who have made their mark on Eastern and Central Asian history....Rozimukhamet Abdulbakiev, the former head of a Uyghur nongovernmental organization in Kyrgyzstan called Ittipaq (Unity), tells RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service "Even though China gave Xinjiang the status of an autonomous Uyghur region, there is no sign of autonomy there.  There are no rights for Uyghurs there.  Nothing.  This is a political and social [matter].  The Chinese totalitarian regime has oppressed all freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of personality, freedom of conscience -- that is why of course people have risen against it."

https://www.rferl.org/a/Chinas_Uyghurs__A_Minority_In_Their_Own_Land/1772366.html
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  AMY GOODMAN:  Let’s turn to the 29-year-old Uyghur woman who testified before Congress last month about her time in a detention center in Xinjiang. This is part of Mihrigul Tursun’s statement, read by a translator.

MIHRIGUL TURSUN:  [translated] I was taken to a cell, which was built underground with no windows. There were cameras on all four sides so the officials could see every corner of the room. There were around 60 people in one of the cells where I was held. At night, 15 women would stand up while the rest of us would sleep sideways, and then we would rotate every two hours.  Some people had not taken a shower in over a year.  Before we ate breakfast, which was water with very little rice, we had to sing songs hailing the Communist Party.  We had to repeat, in Chinese—in quote—”Long live Xi Jinping” and—in quote—”Leniency for those who repent and punishment for those who resist.”  Anyone who could not memorize a book of slogans and the rules within 14 days would be denied food or beaten. …I also experienced torture in a tiger chair the second time I was detained.  I was taken to a special room and placed in a high chair. Bands held my arms and legs in place and tightened when they pressed a button. The guards put a helmet on my shaved head.  Each time I was electrocuted, my whole body would shake violently, and I could feel the pain in my veins.  https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/6/re_education_camps_infiltration_surveillance_china

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