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1. Uyghur human rights project: Worse than silence, Arab countries and China collaborated to persecute Uyghurs
On August 30, the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a non-profit organization that won the “Liu Xiaobo Conscience Award”, was published.Report, accusing Arab countries of collaborating with China to crack down on Uighurs across the border. The report stated that the Arab world was once considered a safe area by Uyghurs, but “with the strengthening of relations between China and Arab countries, since 2001, 292 Uyghurs have been detained or deported from Arab countries at the behest of the Chinese government” .
The cover of the report, the image, comes from the Uyghur Project for Human Rights
The report identified five main mechanisms of transnational persecution in China against Uyghurs in Arab countries: transnational digital surveillance, narratives of the global war on terrorism, Islamic educational institutions, pilgrimages as a passport control tool and weapon.
First, the CCP has established a transnational digital surveillance system. Currently, the CCP has developed an algorithmic monitoring system, the Integrated Joint Operation Platform (IJOP), for Uighurs in Xinjiang. However, in order to deal with Uyghurs in Arab countries on a transnational level, the platform has been internationalized, “capable of closely tracking and monitoring Uighurs living abroad”. Second, when the United States declared its Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) in 2001, the CCP took advantage of this Western GWOT narrative. This became the reason for detaining Uyghurs or extraditing Uyghurs overseas to China.
Third, “the Islamic educational institutions where Uyghur students attend have also become the target of the CCP attack.” The Mosque and Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, with a history of thousands of years, also participated in the CCP’s arrest of its Uyghur students. Fourth, “the activities of the Hajj and Umrah of Saudi Arabia, which the CCP state uses to monitor or detain Uyghur pilgrims.” Fifth, the CCP armed citizens’ passports “by refusing to issue travel documents to Uighurs in Arab countries, rendering them stateless and therefore vulnerable to deportation to China.”
Finally, the report makes the following recommendations to Arab governments and educational institutions:
Take measures to protect Uyghur refugees
Strengthen refugee resettlement programs with increased quotas and simplified procedures
Relevant governments should prioritize political and diplomatic efforts to combat the complicity of third country governments in transnational persecution in China
adhere to the principle of non-refoulement
Targeted sanctions against Chinese and Arab officials responsible for transnational persecution
Appointment of a UN Special Rapporteur on Transnational Persecution
Enhance digital security for UNHCR and other international NGOs working with refugees
To solve this problem through the International Islamic Organization
Leverage international support for China’s Uyghur politics
University officials must engage with their governments to urge the immediate release of Uyghur students
Facilitate the registration process for Uighur students
Ensure that foreign students of other nationalities are not harassed by the security services hindering their studies
Second, the US State Department and a number of non-governmental organizations are calling on the Chinese authorities to stop enforced disappearances.
August 30 is the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance. Several official and private organizations have called on the Chinese government to end enforced disappearances within China. US Secretary of State Blinkendeclarationreferring to “the United States and its support for all those affected by the crime of enforced disappearance. This behavior, prohibited by international law, constitutes a grave violation of human rights, but continues to be used to suppress dissent and attack the civil society. “
US Secretary of State Blinken, the image comes from the official website of the US State Department
On the same day, Amnesty International, Freedom House and Chinese Human Rights Defenders jointly issued an open letter,Ask China to stop enforced disappearances. The open letter, citing the third disappearance of “Chinese conscience” human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng as an example, criticized China’s official enforced disappearance, stating that “the Chinese government ignored the appeals of the people and continued to refuse to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The Chinese government has also ignored requests to visit China by the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances for more than nine years, including the latest on January 7, 2022. During this period, individual disappearance cases submitted to the working group However, the number has increased, reaching 214 by 2021, of which 98 remain unsolved. The open letter also stated that experts from the Nations Unite and civil society participants documented many Chinese authorities’ practices amounting to enforced disappearances, mainly surveillance Residential community in designated places (RSDL), detention system, psychiatric incarceration (Ankang), enforced disappearances in Tibet and enforced disappearances in Uyghur areas.
Finally, the open letter said: “We are in solidarity with all those who have disappeared and with their loved ones who long for their return to life.”
The participating institutions are the following:
Amnesty International
China against the death penalty
China Aid Association
Chinese human rights defenders
House of Liberty
Defenders on the front line
Global Center for Responsibility to Protect
Grupo de Apoio ao Tibete Portugal
Hong Kong Democracy Council
Hong Kong in Great Britain
Hong Kong clock
Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association (IBAHRI)
International Campaign for Tibet
International Commission of Jurists
International Human Rights Service (ISHR)
International Human Rights Society
Tibet international network
Lawyers for lawyers
Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada
Northern California Hong Kong Club
Objectif Tibet, Sciez, France
PEN America
Safeguard defenders
The practice of rights
The 29 principles
Tibet Initiative Germany
Tibetan Justice Center
Tibet Support Group Ireland
Students for a free Tibet
Swiss Association of Tibetan Friendship
Uyghur Human Rights Project
World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)
World Congress of Uyghurs
3. Human Rights Network: August “Monthly report on political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in Mainland China”
Organization of a network of volunteers for the protection of citizens’ rightsRights protection networkPosted August 31August “Monthly report on political prisoners and prisoners of conscience detained in Mainland China”, the number of new criminal detentions increased compared to the previous month. According to the report, 20 people were released and 2 people were sentenced in the online rights protection period list. This month, 66 people were recently detained, “undermined” and sentenced to speeches, human rights and religious activities, etc.
A well-known Tibetan businessman sentenced to 18 years in prison, the photo comes from the Tibetan central administration
The list of the 66 newly added prisoners of conscience and the condemned in the previous list are as follows:
1. This month I learned the list of 2 people who were sentenced in the previous list
4 years old: Zhu Yufang
1 year and 3 months: Geng Zejun
2. 6 persons in criminal detention, the list is as follows:
Wu Jianwei, Chen Baiqing, Long Kehai, Mao Huibin, Ye Guoqiang, Shi Xinhong
3. A person who was “mentally ill”, the list is as follows:
Yu Aiming, detained in Fujian Fuyuan psychiatric hospital
4. Sentenced 59 persons The list and terms of the sentences are as follows:
18 years old: Tenzing Qupei
10 years old: Zhang Xunju
9 years old: Hu Jinhui
7 years old: Jia Jingwen, Li Yun, Luo Yuanying, Ma Qin
5 years and 6 months: Zhuang Shrimp Chang
5 years old: Chen Zhongguo, Yu Guizhen, Cheng Meihua, Zeng Xingyang
4 years and 6 months: Gang Liu
4 years and 3 months: Liu Chang’e
4 years: Feng Ruiying, Xu Yanzhen, Wu Yongfeng, Yan Lijun, Zhang Xiaona, Liu Hongxia
3 years and 7 months: Zhang Chunqiu
3 years and 6 months: Liu Yan, Huang Hongwei, Huang Boming, Deng Fang
3 years and 2 months: Zhang Chunying
3 years old: Deng Diran, Xue Yuchun, Fu Shengping, Zhang Yingling, Jin Xiaomei, Yan Lin, Zeng Yueling
October 2: Yin June
2 years and 8 months: Wu Fangling
2 years and 6 months: Li Xintian, Chen Lin, Kang Guiyun, Li Yanxia
2 years and 4 months: Yang Jinxiang
2 years and 3 months: Guo Shufen
2 years: Mei Yufeng, Yan Huiyu, Wang Jimei, Wang Yulan, Duan Yanlin
1 year and 10 months: Han Shimin
1 year and 6 months: Jiao Ting’e, Chai Huiqin, Ding Yao, Yao Zhongmei, Bi Guiying
1 year 4 months: Guo Jinshan
1 year: Wang Yuan, Dai Qingping, Liu Yurong, Li Shufang, Chen Wenxue
Unknown sentence: Sun Daluo (formerly Sun Zhiming)
As of press time, there are currently 1,422 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in custody in China. Among them, 11 were suspended to death, 17 were sentenced to life imprisonment, 1,198 were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment and 196 were not sentenced to custody. A large number of people were “mentally ill” and the disappearances forced were not fully registered.
Also, according to the nonprofit organizationChinese Labor BulletinAccording to the monitoring, 14 security incidents occurred in China in July, 33 collective actions by workers and 112 workers seeking help. Geographically, Shandong, Henan and Guangdong are the areas with a high incidence of workers seeking help in August.
Image from the Chinese Labor Bulletin
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