'My soul, where are you?': families of Muslims missing in China meet wall of silence

By artappraiser on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 3:06pm |

Spoke to families of Muslim minorities who have been detained, arrested, or disappeared in Xinjiang. Even calling to find out what's happened to their relatives is dangerous. "We can't ask and they can't say." https://t.co/RGAWQADtZy
— Lily Kuo (@lilkuo) September 13, 2018

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/13/uighur-xinjiang-family-missing-china-kazakhstan?CMP=share_btn_tw

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We spoke to an ex-detainee of a detention center in Xinjiang, mainly Uighur and Kazakh women. The guards, also Uighur and Kazakh, would yell at them for not speaking Chinese. She once saw a woman with her feet and hands chained together for four days. https://t.co/RGAWQAlSAY
— Lily Kuo (@lilkuo) September 14, 2018

The Guardian view on Xinjiang: China’s secret camps are at last in the spotlight https://t.co/Drnxi7609G
— CHRD (@CHRDnet) September 14, 2018

This is a worrying example of how uighurs face danger abroad even after having escaped mainland China, often in countries that are strongly economically dependent on China https://t.co/Mnfbt0sk4L
— Emily Feng (@EmilyZFeng) September 17, 2018

In an interview, the new @EUAmboChina @nchapuis is quoted as saying "first of all, we need the facts" on rights abuses in #Xinjiang. https://t.co/ptKu0XQaYZ. He is new, so perhaps hasn’t read the growing body of evidence of massive rights violations in Xinjiang (1/10):
— Frances Eve (@FrancesEveCHRD) September 17, 2018

by artappraiser on Mon, 09/17/2018 - 3:11pm

'My soul, where are you?': families of Muslims missing in China meet wall of silence

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