Urumqi, China, Apr 15, 2019 / 11:08 am (CNA) Government-run social media and facial recognition technology are being used to help monitor and detain Muslims in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This technology has been around China since 2016, but it has been a growing concern in regards to violations of religious freedom and human rights. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority that mainly i ...
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The Diplomat A Chinese-born Kazakh was fighting deportation in Uzbekistan. Now no one is sure where he is. Central Asia is yet again embroiled in China’s ongoing crackdown on Muslim minority groups in its farwestern region. In a series of videos posted online, Halemubieke Xiaheman, a Chinese-born Kazakh businessman, said he was fighting attempts by Beijing to return him to China from neighboring Uzbekistan. ...
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By Kady O'Malley. Published on Apr 4, 2019 As the House heads into the final day of the budget debate, it appears that Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre may end up being the only MP to put his thoughts on the government’s fiscal fortitude on the permanent parliamentary record. At press time, he’s scheduled to resume his speech this morning, and unless he chooses to wrap it up before time runs out ...
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Nur Bekri, former governor of Xinjiang, attends a news conference during the annual session of China's rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, in Beijing on March 7, 2010. (Jason Lee/Reuters) BY NICOLE HAO, April 3, 2019 Nur Bekri, China’s highest-ranking ethnic Uyghur official, was the latest to be ensnared in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign. Bekri was ...
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN, April 4, 2019 How China is tearing Uyghur families apart (CNN) Zeynep Ablajan said she hasn't been able to speak to her husband, Yalkun Rozi, in over two years. He is a Uyghur scholar and textbook author who was detained in Xinjiang, China in October 2016. That was the last time she heard his voice. "It is torturing looking back," she told CNN through a translator. "I didn't expect ...
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