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China collects genetic material from millions of Uyghurs. China uses facial recognition technology to sort people by ethnicity, and uses DNA to tell if an individual is a Uyghur. China has been accused of creating "technologies used for hunting people." [244] In 2017, security-related construction tripled in Xinjiang.
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), [12] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
The Uyghurs, [note 2] alternatively spelled Uighurs, [24] [25] [26] Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central Asia and East Asia. The Uyghurs are recognized as the titular nationality of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China.
A trove of documents dubbed the "China Cables" has revealed the inner workings of detention camps built to imprison Muslim minorities, especially Uighurs, in China's Xinjiang region.The documents ...
Chinese authorities acknowledged that birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018 in Xinjiang, but denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide. [25] Birth rates in Xinjiang fell a further 24% in 2019, compared to a nationwide decrease of 4.2%. [19] The Chinese government denies having committed human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
Image: Mammattursun Omer, 29, a former Uighur detainee, in Istanbul, Turkey, where he lives in self-imposed exile after being held and tortured in government custody inside China's Xinjiang region.
No Escape documents the history of Uyghurs in what is now northwest China, Mongolia and eastern Kazakhstan. [2] In the book, Turkel explains how Uyghurs historically tended to refer to themselves as yerlik (English: locals). [2] Turkel states that China imprisoned Ilham Tohti to prevent him speaking out about the treatment of Uyghurs. [1]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States blocked imports from 26 Chinese cotton traders or warehouse facilities on Thursday as part of its effort to eliminate goods made with the forced labor of ...