https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-government-hunting-uyghurs-world-help-surprising-countries-rcna24987
China is hunting Uyghurs around the world, with help from some surprising countries
More than 1,500 Uyghurs have been detained, extradited or rendered, most in the Middle East and North Africa, says a report from the Woodrow Wilson Center.
The Chinese government is not only mistreating Uyghurs within China's borders, it is hunting them down abroad — with help from countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates — to clamp down on criticism of Beijing’s repression of Muslim minorities.
The scale of the Chinese Ministry of State Security’s efforts to harass, detain and extradite Uyghurs from around the world, and the cooperation it is getting from governments in the Middle East and North Africa, is described in unprecedented detail in a new report, “Great Wall of Steel,” by the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.
More than 5,500 Uyghurs outside of China have been targeted by Beijing, hit with cyberattacks and threats to family members who remain in China, and more than 1,500 Uyghurs have been detained or forced to return to China to face imprisonment and torture in police custody, according to the report.
“It is the first major study to place the Xinjiang humanitarian crisis in a global context, showing the international dimension of Beijing’s campaign to suppress the Uyghurs,” said the report’s author, Bradley Jardine, a Schwartzman fellow at the Wilson Center and director of research at the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs.
The forced repatriations to China are ongoing.
@earl-of-trumps saidThat would be everyone’s future if they get the upper hand and link up and support like minded individuals and groups in our body politic’s.
Xi and Vlad... What a pair
Democracy is their greatest fear and they will try to eradicate it wherever they can especially if it’s close to their own borders, they think it’s infectious and it probably is.
When you see the anger that is spreading through communities over the latest draconian lockdown measures you could be forgiven for believing that the CCPs grip on power is tenuous and dependant on constant economic growth and unsustainable levels of prosperity.
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Before we get all high and mighty, from the article:
According to the report, what scholars call “transnational repression,” ranging from online harassment to detention and extradition, has taken place in 44 countries, and Uyghurs have been threatened and intimidated in United States, Japan and across the European Union. More than 1,500 detentions and forced returns to China have occurred since 1997, more than 1,300 of them since 2014.
It seems a lot of nations around the world are involved in the harassment and extradition of Uighurs, including the U.S. and Europe.
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@shavixmir saidI would guess that China is mostly behind it and is wielding its influence to get other nations to comply.
If this is true, it’s completely bizarre.
Is China behind it? Or are there just so many countries with such a hatred towards such a specific group?
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@shavixmir said"Why" what? Are you asking why I believe China is behind other nations extraditing Uighurs back to China? If so: why else would nations do that?
Why?
@shavixmir saidNot sure. That's why I asked that same question in the second post. I was hoping you would know.
Why would China be chasing down Uyghurs all around the world?
