Reading reports on the sophisticated system of surveillance in place in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China is like reading a work of science…
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Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs have been detained in the Xinjiang region, in centres qualified by the Chinese government as “vocational training centres”.…
The Uyghurs are, unfortunately, best known today as victims of ethnic and cultural cleansing, however, it wasn’t always this way. Once leaders in the Central…
China took over the Xinjiang region (formerly known as East Turkestan) in 1949 (BBC, 2014). After the takeover, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to…
Written by Snigdha Jagarlapudi and Annie McDonnell While studying at Al-Azhar Islamic University in Egypt, Muyesser Muhemmed met her future husband, Sedirjan. They married in…
I was sitting at the school assembly in our gym among a crowd of students and teachers who were wearing a typical smiley face. Tears…