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Backlash at Chinese university shows limits to surveillance
A Chinese university's plan to conduct a blanket search of student and staff electronic devices has come under fire, illustrating the limits of the population's tolerance for surveillance and raising the prospect that tactics used on Muslim minorities may be creeping into the rest ...
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism," in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities. Those who surrender to judicial organs within 30 ...
China defended its internment of Muslims in the country's northwest as a terrorism prevention measure on Tuesday, calling on the international community to reject "hearsay" and believe its official line. Up to a million Uighurs and other Chinese Turkish-speaking minority groups have been placed in ...
At U.N., China snubs criticism about mass Muslim detentions in Xinjiang
China on Tuesday once again rejected criticism of its treatment of ethnic Muslims, telling the United Nations that accusations of rights abuses from some countries were "politically driven." At a U.N. review of the country's human rights record, China characterized the far west region of ...
Security spending soars in China's troubled Xinjiang region: report
Spending on security-related construction tripled in 2017 in China's far-western region of Xinjiang, where Beijing is accused of detaining as many as 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, an academic analysis of government expenditure found. Beijing says its "vocational training centers" in Xinjiang camps ...
Chinese 'gait recognition' technology identifies people by how they walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras. Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, "gait recognition" ...
Activists urge U.N. rights meeting this week to scrutinize China's treatment of Uighurs, Tibetans
Activists called for U.N. member states to pressure China this week to account for alleged human rights violations, including the suspected mass detention of 1 million Muslim Uighurs in far-western Xinjiang province. China's record will be examined by the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday, ...
Chinese state-run media has pointed to the mass shooting Saturday at a synagogue in Pittsburgh as highlighting the need for "anti-extremism education" measures similar to the widely criticized internment camps it operates in the country's far-west Xinjiang region. Reacting to the deadly shooting, the Global ...
China rolls out PR push on Xinjiang internment camps, calls them vocational training centers
China issued Tuesday an ardent defense of its alleged mass internment of minorities in far west Xinjiang region amid a global outcry, with a regional official insisting that authorities are preventing terrorism through "vocational education" centers. Beijing has sought to counter criticism with a series ...
Kazakhstan denies asylum to China 're-education camp' whistleblower
Ex-Soviet Kazakhstan has refused asylum to an escaped Chinese citizen whose court testimony helped expose a secretive network of re-education camps in China's restive Xinjiang region, her lawyer said Friday. Sayragul Sauytbay, 41, was denied political asylum by a migration committee in the Central Asian ...
China's Xinjiang crackdown turns to ethnic Kazakhs, tearing families apart
When he looks back on his youth in China's far-west region of Xinjiang, Akikat Kaliolla, an ethnic Kazakh, recalls the natural beauty and the big, colorful weddings typical of his majority-Muslim community. But now Emin County, where he grew up, is a sealed-off pocket in ...
China is working to develop a first-class, crack anti-terrorism force that can operate at home and abroad and protect the country's overseas interests, a senior Chinese officer said in comments carried by state media Saturday. In late 2015, China passed a new anti-terrorism law that ...
