The wooden Quran in the world can be found in Palembang
The wooden Quran in the world can be found in Palembang, the capital of Indonesia’s South Sumatra province. It is the largest wood-carved Quran in the world, and was made from wood of the tembesu tree. It measures 1.77 by 1.40 meters (5.8 by 4.6 feet).
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Disaster rescue teams from Malaysia and Japan arrived in Turkey on Tuesday morning to help with the earthquake relief efforts.
Disaster rescue teams from Malaysia and Japan arrived in Turkey on Tuesday morning to help with the earthquake relief efforts.
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German Turkish footballer Mesut Özil helping with the earthquake relief efforts in Turkiye.
German Turkish footballer Mesut Özil helping with the earthquake relief efforts in Turkiye.
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More than 3,000 Muslims in the German city of Hamburg protested against Quran burning in Sweden by a far-right Danish politician
More than 3,000 Muslims in the German city of Hamburg protested against Quran burning in Sweden by a far-right Danish politician on February 4. The protest was organised by the youth organisation Muslim Interaktiv.
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Uyghur Muslim brothers are travelling to southern Turkiye to help earthquake victims.
Uyghur Muslim brothers are travelling to southern Turkiye to help earthquake victims. A people who endured genocide aiding a people who embraced them into their country.
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The open ai answered this question "What the evil things that the Chinese Communist Party did in muslim community"
The openai answered this question "What the evil things that the Chinese Communist Party did in muslim community"
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been accused of numerous human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim community in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, including:
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been accused of numerous human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim community in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, including:
- Detention of over 1 million Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in "re-education" or "vocational training" centers, where they face forced labor, physical and psychological torture, and forced assimilation.
- Repression of religious and cultural practices, including restrictions on religious observance, dress, and language.
- Surveillance and control of the Uyghur Muslim community through a highly intrusive security state, including the use of facial recognition technology and DNA collection.
- Forced birth control measures, including sterilization and abortion, aimed at reducing the Uyghur Muslim population.
- Family separation and arbitrary detention of Uyghur Muslim children in orphanages and boarding schools.
- Reports of forced organ harvesting from Uyghur Muslim detainees.
- The CCP's actions in Xinjiang have been widely condemned by human rights organizations, the international community, and some Western governments, who have called them a form of cultural genocide.
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Remembering the victims of the 2017 Quebec City mosque attack
the victims of the 2017 Quebec City mosque attack where six Muslim Quebecers were killed in cold blood in their place of worship. This was the largest mass murder of a religious community in Canada in modern history.
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The Chinese Communist Party forcibly makes Kazakh and Uyghur people celebrate the Spring Festival like Han people.
The Chinese Communist Party forcibly makes Kazakh and Uyghur people celebrate the Spring Festival like Han people. Xi Jinping repeats everything Mao Zedong did. Mao carried out reeducation through labor, Xi carries out forced labor, demolished mosques, forced Muslims to drink alcohol and eat pork, arrested Kazakhs with foreign relatives on the charge of being "foreign spies," compulsorily arranged Han officials to live in Kazakh and Uyghur families, prohibited communication with foreign relatives, and so on
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The populatioin East Turkestan(Xin Jiang) dramatically decline from about 13% to 0.56 % since 2017.
The population increasing rate in the video shows what the China population policy going on. East Turkestan(Xin Jiang) dramatically decline from about 13% to 0.56 % since 2017.
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Zhanargul Zhumatai, a Kazakh woman from Urumqi, Xinjiang, was imprisoned in a Xinjiang concentration camp for two years
CCP tried their best to deny the tragic fact that Zhanargul Zhumatai, a Kazakh woman from Urumqi, Xinjiang, was imprisoned in a Xinjiang concentration camp for two years. The following is her ID card and her work certificate when she was an editor in Kazakhstan National TV.
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Kurshat Sirajidin, a young Uyghur man. went back to East Turkistan in 2016 to see family. Arrested in July 2021 while working as English teacher in Shanghai.
Kurshat Sirajidin, a brilliant young Uyghur man, educated in USA, High school to University, went back to East Turkistan in 2016 to see family. Arrested in July 2021 while working as English teacher in Shanghai. Whereabouts unknown.
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Former world heavyweight boxing champion, Mike Tyson, and American Palestinian musician, DJ Khaled, recently completed their Umrah pilgrimage.
Former world heavyweight boxing champion, Mike Tyson, and American Palestinian musician, DJ Khaled, recently completed their Umrah pilgrimage.
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Christians and Muslims have gathered in Texas to protest against Hindutva group Global Hindu Heritage Foundation for raising funds to demolish churches in India.
Hundreds of Indian-American Christians and Muslims have gathered at the Frisco City Council in Texas to protest against Hindutva group Global Hindu Heritage Foundation for raising funds to demolish churches in India.
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England and Wales now less than half Christian. Those with ‘no religion’ form the second biggest group and are growing strongly.
England and Wales now less than half Christian. Those with ‘no religion’ form the second biggest group and are growing strongly. Muslim is 6.5%, just above ‘not answered’ at 6%, then Hindu at 1.7%, Sikh 0.9%. Buddhist, Jewish, and ‘other’ all around 0.5%. Figures from Census 2021
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What happened Nov 24 in Urumqi, two Uyghur girls telling from the beginning of the lockdown, what difficulties they were in and how that fire burned lives in Urumqi.
What happened Nov 24 in Urumqi, two Uyghur girls telling from the beginning of the lockdown, what difficulties they were in and how that fire burned lives in Urumqi.
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Protests erupted in front of the Urumqi city government building, which has been in lockdown for 100 days, after a fire killed 10 Uyghurs
Protests erupted in front of the Urumqi city government building, which has been in lockdown for 100 days, after a fire killed 10 Uyghurs. Voices can be heard chanting, "open up" (end lockdown)
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The Han-Chinese citizens are protesting the CCP regime, while over 5 Uyghurs died in this fire disaster.
The Han-Chinese citizens are protesting the CCP regime, while over 5 Uyghurs died in this fire disaster. When people talking, Uyghurs are disappearing, when people protest on the streets, Uyghurs are still being locked in concentration camps.
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How can the authorities and CCP regime kill innocent Muslims and Han Chinese? This image gives us a clear answer.
How can the authorities and CCP regime kill innocent Muslims and Han Chinese?
A whole life of a 3 years old kid in East Turkestan(The occupied Xin Jiang).
A whole life of a 3 years old kid in EastTurkistan(The occupied Xin Jiang).
Uyghur Genocide Database | Uyghur internment camps | reports emerged documenting the deaths of individuals in mass internment camps
Reports published throughout the year documented authorities’ continued use of torture and other forms of mistreatment against prisoners and camp detainees. As in the past reporting year, reports emerged documenting the deaths of individuals in mass internment camps and prisons or after they were held in camps or prisons. Examples include the following:
• Yaqup Haji, a 45-year-old Uyghur businessman and philan- thropist from Ghulja (Yining) city, Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autono- mous Prefecture, who died in or around September 2021 after being tortured in a mass internment camp or prison, where he had been held since 2018. A friend of Yaqup Haji told RFA that authorities had detained him for making contributions to religious causes, and that authorities had tortured him, includ- ing by holding him in solitary confinement.
• Zeynephan Memtimin, a 40-year-old Uyghur woman who died in 2020 in a prison in Keriye (Yutian) county, Hotan pre- fecture, where she was serving a 10-year sentence for violating family planning policies.62 Authorities previously held Zeynephan Memtimin in a mass internment camp beginning in 2017, for having fled a hospital where she was due to undergo a forced abortion in 2014.63 Officials did not disclose the cause of her death to relatives.
• Yaqup Hesen, a 43-year-old goldsmith who died on May 1, 2022, 20 days after being released from a prison in Ghulja (Yining) city, Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, where he had been held for three years. A neighborhood committee official told RFA that authorities had detained him for pray- ing. Family members sought medical treatment for Yaqup Hesen for an unspecified illness at multiple hospitals following his release. Yaqup Hesen’s 20-year-old son died, reportedly of grief, at his father’s funeral. Collapse Read »
• Yaqup Haji, a 45-year-old Uyghur businessman and philan- thropist from Ghulja (Yining) city, Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autono- mous Prefecture, who died in or around September 2021 after being tortured in a mass internment camp or prison, where he had been held since 2018. A friend of Yaqup Haji told RFA that authorities had detained him for making contributions to religious causes, and that authorities had tortured him, includ- ing by holding him in solitary confinement.
• Zeynephan Memtimin, a 40-year-old Uyghur woman who died in 2020 in a prison in Keriye (Yutian) county, Hotan pre- fecture, where she was serving a 10-year sentence for violating family planning policies.62 Authorities previously held Zeynephan Memtimin in a mass internment camp beginning in 2017, for having fled a hospital where she was due to undergo a forced abortion in 2014.63 Officials did not disclose the cause of her death to relatives.
• Yaqup Hesen, a 43-year-old goldsmith who died on May 1, 2022, 20 days after being released from a prison in Ghulja (Yining) city, Ili (Yili) Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, where he had been held for three years. A neighborhood committee official told RFA that authorities had detained him for pray- ing. Family members sought medical treatment for Yaqup Hesen for an unspecified illness at multiple hospitals following his release. Yaqup Hesen’s 20-year-old son died, reportedly of grief, at his father’s funeral. Collapse Read »
CECC Annual Report 2022 | AUTHORITIES CONTINUED TO PLACE INDIVIDUALS INTO FORCED LABOR
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AUTHORITIES CONTINUED TO PLACE INDIVIDUALS INTO FORCED LABOR
According to subsequent research published by Zenz in June 2022, XUAR authorities intensified and institutionalized the place- ment of Turkic Muslims into forced labor situations, likely forcing hundreds of thousands of mass internment camp detainees to work within the XUAR and transferring millions of ‘‘rural surplus labor- ers’’ within and outside of the XUAR. Zenz’s research indicates that authorities increased ‘‘the scope and scale’’ of forced labor transfers in 2021 and published plans to move increasing numbers of rural laborers into industrial work, as well as to train workers in coercive labor programs in higher skilled labor.
GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED FORCED LABOR CONTRAVENES CHINA’S INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS
PRC government-sponsored forced labor contravenes inter- national human rights standards and China’s international obliga- tions. Government-sponsored forced labor programs in the XUAR constitute human trafficking under the Palermo Protocol and a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute. In February 2022, the International Labour Organization (ILO) released the an- nual report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Con- ventions and Recommendations. The Committee expressed its ‘‘. . . deep concern in respect of the policy directions expressed in numerous national and regional policy and regulatory documents . . .’’ with regard to the government’s detention and labor policies among ethnic minorities from the XUAR. The Committee re- quested that the Chinese government review, repeal, and revise its policies in order to serve ethnic minority individuals in the XUAR rather than discriminate against them. According to the report, as a signatory to the ILO’s Discrimination (Employment and Occu- pation) Convention (C111), China is obligated to create a ‘‘. . . na- tional policy to promote equality of opportunity and treatment and eliminate discrimination in respect of employment and occupation,’’ and ‘‘. . . to repeal any statutory provisions and modify any admin- istrative instructions or practices which are inconsistent with such policy.’’ In April 2022, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee ratified the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention of 1930 (C029) and Abolition of Forced Labour Convention of 1957 (C105). C029 requires countries to prohibit the use of forced labor and make the use of forced labor ‘‘punishable as a penal offence.’’
Human Trafficking
Countries that ratify C105 are prohibited from using forced labor ‘‘as a means of political coercion or education’’ or ‘‘as a means of racial, social, national or religious discrimination.’’According to a human rights advocate, the PRC’s multiple violations of inter- national human rights standards on forced labor diminished mean- ingful expectations that the government will work in good faith to meet the ILO forced labor conventions. Collapse Read »
CECC Annual Report 2022 | Islam in China
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This past year, the PRC continued to impose the policy of ‘‘sinicization’’ on ethnic minority Muslims throughout the country, promoting the eradication of distinct ethnic and religious character- istics and increasing assimilation with Han Chinese culture. The PRC continued its campaign to remove characteristically Muslim elements from mosques throughout the country. Authorities also continued to target girls wearing headscarves to school, ‘‘quietly’’ rooting out the practice ‘‘at the majority of schools, at all levels, by various means’’ since 2019, according to Radio Free Asia. Along with large-scale surveillance operations targeting Muslim communities, the central government has also continued to target Muslim worship by undertaking surveillance and interfering with religious activities at mosques and has imposed quotas on the number of Muslims permitted to gather to observe Ramadan. Examples of widespread violations of freedom of religion include:
• In July 2021, authorities in Xining municipality, Qinghai province, announced the removal of domes and a minaret from the front gate of Dongguan Mosque. Scholar David R. Stroup has described Dongguan Mosque as China’s ‘‘most prominent and culturally important mosque’’ and one of its largest.51 One report claimed that authorities had implemented similar re- movals from at least 10 other mosques throughout Xining.
• On November 3, 2021, seven Muslim girls were locked out of their elementary school in Changge city, Xuchang munici- pality, Henan province, for wearing headscarves.
• Beginning on October 15, government and Party officials launched their latest round of ‘‘wo’erzi’’ (a Chinese trans- literation of the Arabic word for ‘‘admonition,’’ or sermon) preaching tours, sending preaching groups to mosques throughout Qinghai to promote Party and government policies, loyalty to the Party, and Party-approved interpretations of the Quran.
• In 2022, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection had launched a corruption investigation into Chinese People’s Political Con- sultative Conference Vice Chair and member of the Hui ethnic minority Wang Zhengwei. Wang, formerly head of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and former Governor of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, was known for encouraging the build- ing of mosques ‘‘on a relatively grand scale’’ and supporting mechanisms for the certification of halal foods. According to the WSJ, the investigation into Wang Zhengwei was ‘‘prompted by concerns that Mr. Wang had promoted ‘unrestrained Mus- lim culture’ and encouraged religious extremism.’’ Collapse Read »
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IslamThis past year, the PRC continued to impose the policy of ‘‘sinicization’’ on ethnic minority Muslims throughout the country, promoting the eradication of distinct ethnic and religious character- istics and increasing assimilation with Han Chinese culture. The PRC continued its campaign to remove characteristically Muslim elements from mosques throughout the country. Authorities also continued to target girls wearing headscarves to school, ‘‘quietly’’ rooting out the practice ‘‘at the majority of schools, at all levels, by various means’’ since 2019, according to Radio Free Asia. Along with large-scale surveillance operations targeting Muslim communities, the central government has also continued to target Muslim worship by undertaking surveillance and interfering with religious activities at mosques and has imposed quotas on the number of Muslims permitted to gather to observe Ramadan. Examples of widespread violations of freedom of religion include:
• In July 2021, authorities in Xining municipality, Qinghai province, announced the removal of domes and a minaret from the front gate of Dongguan Mosque. Scholar David R. Stroup has described Dongguan Mosque as China’s ‘‘most prominent and culturally important mosque’’ and one of its largest.51 One report claimed that authorities had implemented similar re- movals from at least 10 other mosques throughout Xining.
• On November 3, 2021, seven Muslim girls were locked out of their elementary school in Changge city, Xuchang munici- pality, Henan province, for wearing headscarves.
• Beginning on October 15, government and Party officials launched their latest round of ‘‘wo’erzi’’ (a Chinese trans- literation of the Arabic word for ‘‘admonition,’’ or sermon) preaching tours, sending preaching groups to mosques throughout Qinghai to promote Party and government policies, loyalty to the Party, and Party-approved interpretations of the Quran.
• In 2022, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection had launched a corruption investigation into Chinese People’s Political Con- sultative Conference Vice Chair and member of the Hui ethnic minority Wang Zhengwei. Wang, formerly head of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and former Governor of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, was known for encouraging the build- ing of mosques ‘‘on a relatively grand scale’’ and supporting mechanisms for the certification of halal foods. According to the WSJ, the investigation into Wang Zhengwei was ‘‘prompted by concerns that Mr. Wang had promoted ‘unrestrained Mus- lim culture’ and encouraged religious extremism.’’ Collapse Read »
CECC Annual Report 2022 | XINJIANG
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XINJIANG
• Key findings from a cache of tens of thousands of files ob- tained from public security bureaus in two counties in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) included: the key role of senior Communist Party and central government offi- cials in carrying out the mass detention and other persecution of Turkic Muslims in the XUAR; the highly securitized nature of detention in the region’s camps and prisons; the high rate of imprisonment in Konasheher (Shufu) county in Kashgar pre- fecture, XUAR, as authorities increasingly sentenced Turkic Muslims to formal imprisonment; and arbitrary deprivation of liberty in camps and prisons.
• Reports published during the Commission’s 2022 reporting year indicated that XUAR officials increasingly sentenced many Turkic and Muslim individuals to long prison terms, sometimes following their detention in mass internment camps. According to international reporting and analysts’ re- view of satellite imagery, officials have converted many former mass internment camps into prisons or other types of formal detention facilities.
• International researchers and journalists found evidence that authorities continued to expand detention facilities, in- cluding mass internment camps. Based on research and anal- ysis of leaked official documents and satellite imagery, BuzzFeed News journalists estimated in July 2021 that au- thorities in the XUAR had enough space in detention facilities in the region, including prisons and mass internment camps, to detain more than one million people at the same time.
• Authorities in the XUAR maintained a system of forced labor that involved former mass internment camp detainees and other Turkic and Muslim individuals. In its annual report re- leased in February 2022, the International Labour Organiza- tion expressed ‘‘deep concern’’ over forced labor in the XUAR and asserted that the ‘‘extensive use of forced labor’’ involving Turkic and/or Muslim minorities in the region violated the Em- ployment Policy Convention of 1964.
• In September 2021, official media in the XUAR announced a new plan pairing Uyghur children with children from across the country, a move that observers believe is designed to con- trol Uyghurs’ lives and eliminate Uyghurs’ cultural identity.
Executive Summary
Called the ‘‘Pomegranate Flower Plan,’’ the initiative matched Uyghur toddlers and elementary school students from a village in Kashgar prefecture with predominantly Han Chinese chil- dren from other parts of China, in order to establish ‘‘kinship’’ ties between the children.
• During the 2022 Ramadan period, which lasted from April 1 to May 1, authorities in parts of Urumqi municipality and Kashgar and Hotan prefectures reportedly enforced quotas for local Muslims allowed to fast during the holiday, and required them to register with officials. Reports published this past year showed that authorities have sentenced Turkic Muslims in the XUAR, including members of the clergy, to lengthy prison terms.
• Turkic women who had been detained in mass internment camps in the XUAR provided evidence to the Uyghur Tribunal that many female detainees were raped in the camps. One former camp detainee testified that unmarried, divorced, and widowed women were raped in a camp where she was detained and that men paid to come to camps to rape female detainees. Collapse Read »
XINJIANG
• Key findings from a cache of tens of thousands of files ob- tained from public security bureaus in two counties in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) included: the key role of senior Communist Party and central government offi- cials in carrying out the mass detention and other persecution of Turkic Muslims in the XUAR; the highly securitized nature of detention in the region’s camps and prisons; the high rate of imprisonment in Konasheher (Shufu) county in Kashgar pre- fecture, XUAR, as authorities increasingly sentenced Turkic Muslims to formal imprisonment; and arbitrary deprivation of liberty in camps and prisons.
• Reports published during the Commission’s 2022 reporting year indicated that XUAR officials increasingly sentenced many Turkic and Muslim individuals to long prison terms, sometimes following their detention in mass internment camps. According to international reporting and analysts’ re- view of satellite imagery, officials have converted many former mass internment camps into prisons or other types of formal detention facilities.
• International researchers and journalists found evidence that authorities continued to expand detention facilities, in- cluding mass internment camps. Based on research and anal- ysis of leaked official documents and satellite imagery, BuzzFeed News journalists estimated in July 2021 that au- thorities in the XUAR had enough space in detention facilities in the region, including prisons and mass internment camps, to detain more than one million people at the same time.
• Authorities in the XUAR maintained a system of forced labor that involved former mass internment camp detainees and other Turkic and Muslim individuals. In its annual report re- leased in February 2022, the International Labour Organiza- tion expressed ‘‘deep concern’’ over forced labor in the XUAR and asserted that the ‘‘extensive use of forced labor’’ involving Turkic and/or Muslim minorities in the region violated the Em- ployment Policy Convention of 1964.
• In September 2021, official media in the XUAR announced a new plan pairing Uyghur children with children from across the country, a move that observers believe is designed to con- trol Uyghurs’ lives and eliminate Uyghurs’ cultural identity.
Executive Summary
Called the ‘‘Pomegranate Flower Plan,’’ the initiative matched Uyghur toddlers and elementary school students from a village in Kashgar prefecture with predominantly Han Chinese chil- dren from other parts of China, in order to establish ‘‘kinship’’ ties between the children.
• During the 2022 Ramadan period, which lasted from April 1 to May 1, authorities in parts of Urumqi municipality and Kashgar and Hotan prefectures reportedly enforced quotas for local Muslims allowed to fast during the holiday, and required them to register with officials. Reports published this past year showed that authorities have sentenced Turkic Muslims in the XUAR, including members of the clergy, to lengthy prison terms.
• Turkic women who had been detained in mass internment camps in the XUAR provided evidence to the Uyghur Tribunal that many female detainees were raped in the camps. One former camp detainee testified that unmarried, divorced, and widowed women were raped in a camp where she was detained and that men paid to come to camps to rape female detainees. Collapse Read »
CECC Annual Report 2022 | ETHNIC MINORITY RIGHTS
The infos from CECC Annual Report 2022
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ETHNIC MINORITY RIGHTS
Findings
• During the Commission’s 2022 reporting year, People’s Re- public of China (PRC) authorities implemented policies that limited the freedom of ethnic minority groups to express their cultural and religious identities, in contravention of the PRC Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law and international law such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
• During this reporting year, PRC officials introduced lan- guage and education policies that prioritized the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese and the reduction of ethnic minority lan- guage instruction. Australian scholar James Leibold said, ‘‘[T]he education system is now the front lines in President Xi Jinping’s assault on ethnic minority cultures in China.’’
• Authorities implemented programs and activities in Hui reli- gious communities this past year which were aimed at ‘‘sinicizing’’ Islamic practices, a trend observers say limits Hui Muslims’ ability to practice their religion and culture.
• Following protests in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Re- gion in fall 2020 over a new policy to reduce Mongolian lan- guage instruction in schools, authorities worked to eliminate dissent among Mongol parents, students, teachers, and others in the region. Officials launched mass ‘‘rectification’’ and ‘‘re- education’’ campaigns, including through ‘‘patriotism courses,’’ to shore up support throughout all segments of Mongol society for the PRC’s sinicization policies. Collapse Read »
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ETHNIC MINORITY RIGHTS
Findings
• During the Commission’s 2022 reporting year, People’s Re- public of China (PRC) authorities implemented policies that limited the freedom of ethnic minority groups to express their cultural and religious identities, in contravention of the PRC Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law and international law such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
• During this reporting year, PRC officials introduced lan- guage and education policies that prioritized the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese and the reduction of ethnic minority lan- guage instruction. Australian scholar James Leibold said, ‘‘[T]he education system is now the front lines in President Xi Jinping’s assault on ethnic minority cultures in China.’’
• Authorities implemented programs and activities in Hui reli- gious communities this past year which were aimed at ‘‘sinicizing’’ Islamic practices, a trend observers say limits Hui Muslims’ ability to practice their religion and culture.
• Following protests in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Re- gion in fall 2020 over a new policy to reduce Mongolian lan- guage instruction in schools, authorities worked to eliminate dissent among Mongol parents, students, teachers, and others in the region. Officials launched mass ‘‘rectification’’ and ‘‘re- education’’ campaigns, including through ‘‘patriotism courses,’’ to shore up support throughout all segments of Mongol society for the PRC’s sinicization policies. Collapse Read »
CECC Annual Report 2022 | MASS INTERNMENT CAMPS
MASS INTERNMENT CAMPS
Authorities continued to operate a system of extrajudicial mass internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in which they have arbitrarily detained over a million indi- viduals from predominantly Muslim ethnic minority groups, includ- ing Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hui, and others.46 In April 2022, the U.S. Government reiterated its determination that the Chinese government is committing genocide against Muslim minorities in China.47 [For more information on arbitrary detention in China’s mass internment camps, see Section X—Xinjiang.]
The infos from CECC Annual Report 2022
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Authorities continued to operate a system of extrajudicial mass internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in which they have arbitrarily detained over a million indi- viduals from predominantly Muslim ethnic minority groups, includ- ing Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Hui, and others.46 In April 2022, the U.S. Government reiterated its determination that the Chinese government is committing genocide against Muslim minorities in China.47 [For more information on arbitrary detention in China’s mass internment camps, see Section X—Xinjiang.]
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Uyghur Genocide Database | Meryem Emet | muslim concentration camps in china
The data from CECC Annual Report 2022
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Meryem Emet
2022-00124
Date of Detention: Unknown date in 2017
Place of Detention: A prison in Kucha (Kuche) county, Aksu prefecture, XUAR
Charge(s): Unknown
Status: Sentenced to 20 years
Context: In 2017, authorities in Urumqi municipality, XUAR, detained Meryem Emet and later sentenced her to 20 years in prison. Her sentence was reportedly con- nected with her marriage to a Turkish national, and with her having met and spoken with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdog ̆an during his 2012 visit to Urumqi. Additional Information: After her detention, XUAR au- thorities forced her two children, then ages four and six, into boarding schools in Urumqi, where teachers sub- jected them to traumatizing disciplinary measures includ- ing beatings and being forced to hold stress positions. After nearly 20 months at the schools, the two children were left unable to communicate in Uyghur. Collapse Read »
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Meryem Emet
2022-00124
Date of Detention: Unknown date in 2017
Place of Detention: A prison in Kucha (Kuche) county, Aksu prefecture, XUAR
Charge(s): Unknown
Status: Sentenced to 20 years
Context: In 2017, authorities in Urumqi municipality, XUAR, detained Meryem Emet and later sentenced her to 20 years in prison. Her sentence was reportedly con- nected with her marriage to a Turkish national, and with her having met and spoken with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdog ̆an during his 2012 visit to Urumqi. Additional Information: After her detention, XUAR au- thorities forced her two children, then ages four and six, into boarding schools in Urumqi, where teachers sub- jected them to traumatizing disciplinary measures includ- ing beatings and being forced to hold stress positions. After nearly 20 months at the schools, the two children were left unable to communicate in Uyghur. Collapse Read »
Uyghur Genocide database | Helchem Pazil
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Helchem Pazil
2022-00112
Date of Detention: Unknown date in 2018 or 2019 Place of Detention: Changji Women’s Prison, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autono- mous Region (XUAR)
Charge(s): Inciting ethnic hatred; gathering a crowd to disturb public order
Status: Sentenced to 17 years
Context: In a court judgment issued in 2019, the Korla (Ku’erle) Municipal People’s Court in Bayangol (Bayinguoleng) Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, XUAR, sentenced 78-year-old Helchem Pazil and several of her relatives, including her three daughters and a daughter- in-law, to prison in connection with private gatherings in which they discussed family life and Islam. Collapse Read »
Helchem Pazil
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Date of Detention: Unknown date in 2018 or 2019 Place of Detention: Changji Women’s Prison, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autono- mous Region (XUAR)
Charge(s): Inciting ethnic hatred; gathering a crowd to disturb public order
Status: Sentenced to 17 years
Context: In a court judgment issued in 2019, the Korla (Ku’erle) Municipal People’s Court in Bayangol (Bayinguoleng) Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, XUAR, sentenced 78-year-old Helchem Pazil and several of her relatives, including her three daughters and a daughter- in-law, to prison in connection with private gatherings in which they discussed family life and Islam. Collapse Read »
CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON CHINA ANNUAL REPORT 2022: Crackdown on Hui Religion and Culture
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During this reporting year, authorities implemented programs and activities in Hui religious communities that were aimed at ‘‘sinicizing’’ Islamic practices, a trend observers say limits Hui Muslims’ ability to practice their religion and culture. Authorities demolished and removed features such as domes and minarets from mosques which serve Hui communities, in order to ‘‘sinicize’’ the mosques and eradicate ‘‘Saudi and Arabic influence.’’ In one case, beginning in July 2021, authorities removed the domes and minarets from the front gate of the Dongguan Mosque in Xining municipality, Qinghai province. The mosque, one of the largest in China, is viewed as symbolically important in the Hui commu- nity. In June 2022, authorities in Zhaotong municipality, Yunnan province, demolished the domes and minarets of Baoshan Mosque, and beat dozens of Hui Muslims who had attempted to guard the mosque, many of whom had to be hospitalized for their injuries. According to human rights organization Christian Solidarity World-wide (CSW), local authorities announced demolition plans in 2021, calling them part of a project to get rid of ‘‘Saudi and Arabic influ- ence.’’25 CSW reported that according to Zhaotong residents, only three out of more than 100 local mosques retained their domes and minarets, as officials had removed them from nearly all of the mosques.
An activity launched by authorities in Qinghai was another ex- ample of official actions to ‘‘sinicize’’ Islamic practices. Beginning in October 2021, provincial-level government and Party officials in Qinghai organized religious personnel to travel to mosques throughout the province, in the fourth such tour of its kind, to ‘‘pro- mote a Chinese communal national consciousness’’ and ‘‘guide the Muslim masses to unite closely around the Party and the govern- ment.’’ A Chinese scholar of folk religions told Radio Free Asia that the official aim of this type of activity was to convert religious believers into ‘‘believers in the Party.’’ [For more information on freedom of religion for Muslims in China, see Section III—Freedom of Religion and Section X—Xinjiang.] Collapse Read »
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During this reporting year, authorities implemented programs and activities in Hui religious communities that were aimed at ‘‘sinicizing’’ Islamic practices, a trend observers say limits Hui Muslims’ ability to practice their religion and culture. Authorities demolished and removed features such as domes and minarets from mosques which serve Hui communities, in order to ‘‘sinicize’’ the mosques and eradicate ‘‘Saudi and Arabic influence.’’ In one case, beginning in July 2021, authorities removed the domes and minarets from the front gate of the Dongguan Mosque in Xining municipality, Qinghai province. The mosque, one of the largest in China, is viewed as symbolically important in the Hui commu- nity. In June 2022, authorities in Zhaotong municipality, Yunnan province, demolished the domes and minarets of Baoshan Mosque, and beat dozens of Hui Muslims who had attempted to guard the mosque, many of whom had to be hospitalized for their injuries. According to human rights organization Christian Solidarity World-wide (CSW), local authorities announced demolition plans in 2021, calling them part of a project to get rid of ‘‘Saudi and Arabic influ- ence.’’25 CSW reported that according to Zhaotong residents, only three out of more than 100 local mosques retained their domes and minarets, as officials had removed them from nearly all of the mosques.
An activity launched by authorities in Qinghai was another ex- ample of official actions to ‘‘sinicize’’ Islamic practices. Beginning in October 2021, provincial-level government and Party officials in Qinghai organized religious personnel to travel to mosques throughout the province, in the fourth such tour of its kind, to ‘‘pro- mote a Chinese communal national consciousness’’ and ‘‘guide the Muslim masses to unite closely around the Party and the govern- ment.’’ A Chinese scholar of folk religions told Radio Free Asia that the official aim of this type of activity was to convert religious believers into ‘‘believers in the Party.’’ [For more information on freedom of religion for Muslims in China, see Section III—Freedom of Religion and Section X—Xinjiang.] Collapse Read »
Jamia mosque in Nairobi open day
Jamia mosque in Nairobi will go a way in educating us on religious tolerance & peaceful co-existence. Let's all purpose to attend.
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