Last week, our Co-ED @zubayra.bsky.social spoke at the National Endowment for Democracy's event marking 37 years since the massacre. As a student in Shanghai in 1989, she took to the streets in solidarity with the democracy movement.
Network for Uyghur Rights
@uyghurnetwork.org
Documenting human rights abuses to hold perpetrators accountable, so that Uyghurs can live free and equal in dignity and rights.
Network for Uyghur Rights Co-ED @zubayra.bsky.social cited in Part II of a major new @financialtimes.com investigation. "Companies, governments, entities, even tourists, should wake up and realise they are complicit." ig.ft.com/western-china/
Xi’s last frontier: China’s plan to transform its west
A vast development drive aims to tap the region’s economic potential and extend Beijing’s control
ig.ft.com
Network for Uyghur Rights Co-ED @peterirwin.bsky.social cited in major new @alisonkilling.bsky.social investigation for the FT. Prison research by Irwin + Ben Carrdus also cited: "The camps became the focus internationally, but prisons were always central to the system." www.ft.com/content/119d...
How China is breaking apart a people and its culture
The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase
ft.com
Alongside the ongoing oppression of Muslim and indigenous groups in Xinjiang and Tibet, China has been investing heavily in the economy - building massive energy and transport infrastructure, high tech factories and tourism. Part 2 of our Western China series: as.ft.com/r/cd1f62af-4...
Xi’s last frontier: China’s plan to transform its west
A vast development drive aims to tap the region’s economic potential and extend Beijing’s control
ig.ft.com
NEW: Xinjiang has the highest detention capacity in the world, according to FT analysis - enough space for almost 1 in 40 people in the region - more than five years after the Chinese govt announced the camps had closed.