Australia: Rallies During Chinese Foreign Minister’s Visit Call to End Persecution of Falun Gong
During both events, practitioners held banners worded “Stop the Persecution, Stop Live Organ Harvesting, and Release all Detained Falun Gong Practitioners.” Many local people expressed their support for practitioners.
Uyghur Publisher Jailed for Books on Uyghur Independence, Identity
Emet was arrested during a crackdown known as “Hui Tou Kan,” or “Looking Back,” a police officer who works near Xinjiang’s Health Publishing House in Urumqi, where Emet used to work, told Radio Free Asia.
Utah Enacts Law Countering the Chinese Communist Party’s Forced Organ Harvesting
The 75-minute documentary, produced in Canada last year, centers around the disappearance of two Falun Gong practitioners in China shortly after the CCP launched its eradication campaign against the practice in July 1999.
Shanghai Director Set to Face Trial Over ‘White Paper’ Protest Film
A former “white paper” protester who gave only the nickname Rick for fear of reprisals said Beijing is trying to rewrite the history of the zero-COVID years, and that Chen and other protesters are trying to defend historical truth.
House Passes Bill to Preserve Uyghur Identity Amid the Chinese Communist Party Rights Abuses
“Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities—just because of their identity—are repeatedly silenced, detained, imprisoned, tortured, and brainwashed in concentration camps led by the Chinese Communist Party,” Ms. Kim said.
China Tried, but Failed, to Prevent UN Scrutiny of Its Human Rights Violations
The U.S. was joined by Canada, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, and Belgium.
Ilham Tohti, My Brother
lham was the recipient of the Sakharov Prize in 2019. By then, the world had known that China had placed several millions of Uyghurs in concentration camps and prisons, subjecting them to torture, indoctrination, forced labor, and long prison sentences.
Two Years After Uyghur ‘Genocide’ Revealed, Calls for Action Remain Unanswered
During the 75th anniversary of the UN convention on genocide, the organization’s human rights chief, Volker Turk, was lambasted for failing to acknowledge the Uyghurs’ plight, after having made other references to the Holocaust, and the Khmer Rogue’s massacres in Cambodia, Rwanda and Yugoslavia.
Chinese Communist Party Launches ‘Patriotic Education’ Law for Youth
the device was removed from shelves following a parent’s complaint that it generated an essay calling Mao “narrow-minded” for instigating the Cultural Revolution in 1966.
Remembering enforced disappearance victims in Asia
Rahile Dawut disappeared in December 2017, and at the time was believed to have been arrested and detained in one of the many internment camps in Xinjiang. More than three years after her disappearance, former co-workers at Xinjiang University confirmed that Rahile was detained along with other members of the Uyghur intellectual and cultural elite, sentenced, and jailed.