By Erkin, Dec 24, 2023 According to a news report by Xin Hua News Agency, a Chinese state media outlet, “The first session of the 14th National People’s Congress of the autonomous region held its third plenary session on the morning of January 18, and elected Dilshat Sayim as president […]
The Uyghurs are an ethnic group primarily residing in Uyghurstan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China. Recognized by the Chinese government as the main ethnic group and the titular people of “Xinjiang,” the Uyghurs are native to the region and have a long history and […]
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Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated―and often brutal―harnessing of data. It is a story […]
The acclaimed poet Gulnisa Imin is serving a 17-year sentence because her work supposedly promotes “separatism.” She’s still writing. By Yasmeen Serhan To read the article, please visit the Atlantic
–March 15, 2022 The words of China’s most famous political prisoner In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in reeducation camps. One of the incarcerated—whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date—is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a […]
In a disturbing turn of events, Russia launched a military invasion into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, escalating the already tense situation between the two nations. Reports indicate that Russian armed forces, backed by tanks and heavy artillery, crossed the border and swiftly advanced into Ukrainian territory. The invasion follows […]
Product details Hardcover · by Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Rozenn Morgat · Seven Stories Press · hardback · 240 pages · ISBN 1644211483 The first memoir about the “reeducation” camps by a Uyghur woman. “I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.”— Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris MatchSince 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the […]
Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City n Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes […]