The data from CECC Annual Report 2022 
link:https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chi ... 0.pdf
 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. view all

The data from https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chi ... 0.pdf
 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. view all

China extends DNA sample collection to Tibet under ‘crime detection’ program, had earlier done so for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
 

 
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Ambassador Xiao Qian keep lying to the world, he says the UN report on Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in China's Xinjiang region is "an absolute fabrication".
 
 
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Many of China's Muslims of the Uyghur minority escaped the oppression of their government and decided to reside in Arab countries. However, since 2017, the Arab regimes have repeatedly attempted to extradite them to Beijing.
 

 
 
Many of China's Muslims of the Uyghur minority escaped the oppression of their government and decided to reside in Arab countries. However, since 2017, the Arab regimes have repeatedly attempted to extradite them to Beijing.

The American network, NBC News, revealed the secret on April 25, 2022, confirming that the Beijing government provided “gifts” to Arab regimes in the form of projects and economic benefits in exchange for a position against the Uyghur minority.

It emphasized that the Chinese authorities, in order to suppress the Muslim Uyghur minority, are intensifying cooperation with the governments of Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE, whether to arrest them or to cooperate in defending China against international criticism over the persecution of its Muslims.

Simultaneously, the Kissinger Institute for Chinese-American Affairs of the Woodrow Wilson Center released a study entitled The Great Wall of Steel that revealed unprecedented details about the extent of Arab governments' complicity with China to deport Uyghurs.

The study showed that more than 1,500 Uyghurs in Arab countries were arrested or extradited, or forced to return to China to face detention and torture.

It said that Beijing targeted more than 5,500 Uyghurs outside China in Arab and Middle Eastern countries with cyber-attacks to spy on them and threaten their family members residing at home, with the complicity of Arab governments as well.
 
Since 1949, Beijing has controlled the territory of East Turkestan, which is the homeland of the Muslim Uyghur Turks, and called it Xinjiang, meaning "the new frontier".

Official statistics indicate that there are 30 million Muslims in the country, 23 million of whom are Uyghurs, while unofficial reports confirm that the number of Muslims is about 100 million, or about 9.5 percent of the total population.

In 2017, the Chinese authorities in Xinjiang began a campaign to arrest Muslim women and men from the Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz ethnic minorities and detain them in camps designed under the pretext of " ridding them of terrorist and extremist tendencies," according to China’s claim.

Between one and two million Uyghurs and members of other minorities from Xinjiang are believed to be held in the camps, where they are forced to study Marxism, renounce their religion, work in factories, and face abuse, according to human rights groups.

 

'Gifts' and Complicity

NBC News issued a study entitled the Great Steel Wall in 2022, researchers identified several reasons for the complicity of Arab regimes with Beijing in the suppression of China's Muslims.

The Great Steel Wall report chronicles the efforts of the Chinese Ministry of State Security to harass, detain, and extradite Uyghurs from around the world, and the cooperation it receives from Arab governments in the Middle East and North Africa in unprecedented detail.

The author of the report, Bradley Jardine, of the Kissinger Institute of the Wilson Center, says that these gifts are Chinese projects in Arab countries, including Egypt, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia, with billions of dollars, and their goal is to facilitate trade between China and the Arabs.

Scholar Adrian Zenz, who has studied China's systematic oppression of the Uyghurs, explained that Beijing uses its economic influence and "gifts" in the form of infrastructure projects.

These projects are represented by the Belt and Road Initiative, and they benefit Arab and Islamic countries that sympathize with the Uyghur crisis and put pressure on them as well.

He stressed that "the Chinese are afraid of the opinion of Muslim peoples regarding their treatment of the Uyghurs, and they have made exceptional efforts to influence the governments of those countries and their public opinion."

The researcher Jardine, who is also director of research at the Oxus Association for Central Asian Affairs, wrote in Time magazine on March 24, 2022, that "the Arab world is not only silent about the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, but it is complicit."

He asserted that Arab countries actively help Beijing in justifying abuses and retaliation against the Uyghurs and that at least six governments in the Arab world: Egypt, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE have detained and extradited Chinese Muslims to Beijing.

 

Torture and Murder

The Oxus Association says: "The Egyptian police arrested more than 200 Chinese Muslims from their homes, restaurants, mosques and even airports, most of them students at al-Azhar University, and a large number were transferred to the notorious Tora and Scorpion prisons."

It asserted, in a report entitled: Beyond the Silence: Cooperation between Arab Countries and China in the Cross-Border Repression of the Uyghurs, that Chinese detainees in Egypt assured that Chinese intelligence officers interrogated them inside Egyptian prisons.

"The Uyghurs who fled the crackdown in Egypt believed that al-Azhar University would protect them, but they were "surprised" when the police arrested them and revealed that it had killed two Uyghur students in custody and deported 76 of them to China," according to the association.

According to a report by NBC News, in 2017, the Egyptian police arrested Uyghur students at a university in Cairo and deported them to China and other places in the Middle East.

On June 19, 2017, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior signed an agreement with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, during the visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi to Beijing to attend the BRICS summit focused on "fighting terrorism and security cooperation between the two countries", without details.

The agreement was followed by a campaign by the Egyptian security services against Muslim students from East Turkestan in China (the Uyghurs) who are studying at al-Azhar or residing in Egypt for fear of returning to their country and being subjected to torture.

Omer Kanat, an activist of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said that "the Egyptian authorities are forcing the students to sign documents stating that they belong to extremist groups at the request of the Chinese government, which accused them of terrorism, with the aim of justifying their deportation to China," according to a statement published in June 2017.

The news was also confirmed by the New York Times on July 6, 2017, confirming that 12 of these students had already been deported to China and that 22 others were awaiting deportation, as it quoted three Egyptian aviation officials at the time.

 

Arabic 'Trap'

Reports by NBC News, the study of the Great Steel Wall, and Time magazine confirm that China's Muslims were not spared from arrest, even on the pilgrimage, which turned into a trap for them, as Saudi Arabia arrested an Uyghur coming to it.

In the report published in Time magazine, Bradley Jardine pointed out that the Chinese intelligence services used the pilgrimage to lure fugitive Uyghurs residing in Europe, and deport them to China with the complicity of the Saudi government.

Such as the arrest of the Uyghur Osman Ahmed Tohti, after he came for Hajj in 2018 from Turkey, where he resides legally.
 
 
The UAE, which has strong relations with China, also played a role in the arrest of Uyghurs and was described as a "regional intelligence center for the Chinese security services."

It was reported that Chinese Muslims residing in the Netherlands were lured to Dubai and their families in Xinjiang were pressured to ensure their compliance in cooperating with Chinese intelligence to spy on Chinese Muslims abroad.

Saudi Arabia appears on China's list of "suspicious" countries to which the Uyghurs travel, "and the kingdom has increasingly cooperated with Beijing," according to the American network, NBC News.

It confirmed that the Saudi authorities had deported at least six Uyghurs to China in the past four years who were performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca or entered the country legally, according to the report.
 
 
 
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 China’s prolonged detention of more than 1 million Muslims in Xinjiang represents the largest mass incarceration of people on religious grounds since the Nazi era. Yet, disturbingly, China has incurred no international costs.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, the brain behind the scheme, and his inner circle have faced no consequences for sustaining the Muslim gulag since at least March 2017. Despite two successive U.S. administrations describing the unparalleled repression in Xinjiang as “genocide” and “crimes against humanity,” Western actions against China have largely been symbolic.

The just-released report on Xinjiang by the United Nations’ human rights office cites serious human-rights violations there and recommends that Beijing take “prompt steps to release all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” in that sprawling ethnic-minority homeland.

Yet this report, paradoxically, is a fresh reminder that China has escaped scot-free, with little prospect that it will be held to account for its mass internment of Muslim minorities, including expanding detention sites in Xinjiang since 2019. The Xinjiang repression also includes forced sterilization and abortion, torture of detainees, slave labor and draconian curbs on freedom of religion and movement.

The report’s release came after nearly a yearlong delay and just minutes before the four-year term of Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, ended. U.N. investigators had compiled the Xinjiang report almost a year ago, but Bachelet kept stalling its release, despite growing pressure from Western countries.

In May, after lengthy discussions with Beijing on arrangements, Bachelet undertook a controversial official visit to China, the first by a U.N. high commissioner for human rights since 2005. During her tenure, Bachelet – a former Chilean president and political detainee under dictator Augusto Pinochet – stayed mum on the Chinese repression in Xinjiang (and Tibet). She said nothing on the crackdown in Xinjiang even when she briefly visited that region during her restrictive China tour, which glossed over abuses by Xi’s regime.

Bachelet had earlier acknowledged that she was under “tremendous pressure” over the report, with China asking her to bury it. The eventual release of the report, minutes before Bachelet’s retirement at midnight on Aug. 31, indicated that she did not want her successor or temporary replacement to take credit for publishing it. Failing to release the report would have left a glaring black mark on her tenure.

Days before her retirement, Bachelet sent a copy of the report to Beijing because, as she explained in a Sept. 1 statement, she “wanted to take the greatest care to deal with the responses and inputs received from the (Chinese) government last week.” In response to the 48-page U.N. assessment, China wrote a 131-page rebuttal, with its foreign ministry calling the report a “farce.”

China has been emboldened by the international community’s indifference and indulgence. It successfully hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics, probably the most divisive games since the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, which helped strengthen the hands of Germany’s Adolf Hitler.

Underscoring China’s growing economic power and geopolitical clout, even Muslim countries, by and large, have remained shockingly silent on the Xinjiang repression. As if that weren’t bad enough, the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation in March honored Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as a speaker at its foreign ministers’ forum in Pakistan.

Xi’s Muslim gulag has made a mockery of the 1948 Genocide Convention, to which China acceded in 1983 (with the rider that it does not consider itself bound by Article IX, the clause allowing any party in a dispute to lodge a complaint with the International Court of Justice). The Genocide Convention requires its parties, which include the United States, to “prevent and punish” acts of genocide.

Chinese authorities have subjected Uyghur and other Muslim groups in Xinjiang, including ethnic Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, to Orwellian levels of surveillance and control over many details of life. As Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo warned, China is weaponizing biotechnology to “pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups.”

The Xinjiang repression is aimed at indoctrinating not just political dissidents and religious zealots but entire Muslim communities by imposing large-scale deprogramming of Islamic identities. A gulag archipelago of 380 internment camps (or “reeducation hospitals,” as Beijing calls them) has become integral to this larger assault on Islam.

It is against this background that the carefully worded U.N. report warns that, “The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups … and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.” The report cited “patterns of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” in the detention centers, including “credible” allegations of sexual violence.

The U.N. report may carry the imprimatur of the world’s only truly universal organization and its member states, yet China was quick to pour scorn on it. Just as it rubbished a 2016 international arbitral tribunal ruling that invalidated its territorial claims in the South China Sea, China ridiculed the U.N. report, calling it a pack of “disinformation and lies.”
 
The 1945-46 Nuremberg Military Tribunal, set up after Germany’s surrender in World War II, prosecuted those involved in crimes against humanity, the same crimes now being perpetrated in Xinjiang. Yet, with China a rising power, there seems little prospect that Chinese officials behind the Muslim gulag will face similar justice.

Indeed, just as China responded to the tribunal’s ruling by accelerating its expansionism in the South China Sea, including militarizing the region, it could step up its repression in Xinjiang until it manages to fully Sinicize and tame Muslim groups.

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of nine books, including the award-winning “Water: Asia’s New Battleground” (Georgetown University Press). Follow him on Twitter @Chellaney.
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Mehray's twitter: https://twitter.com/Mehray_T
 
The following tweets from her official twitter account.
 6 years ago today I married the love of my life, Mirzat Taher. We should be celebrating this day together however, my husband is still being held prisoner by the CCP for crimes he did not commit. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones.
 

 
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July 31, 2022. Join the #stand4uyghurs movement alongside 100+ muslim organisations.
 
The Stand4Uyghurs coalition of over 100Muslim partner organisations will be hitting the streets of London,Manchester Edinburgh as well as internationally in Washington DC,Toronto Istanbul,Sydney,Melbourne and Brisbane on Sunday 31July
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An image of Xi’s visit from China’s state television, but where are the young male residents?
 
Why would Xi Jinping hide his visit to “Xinjiang” from his people and the world, and why did the Chinese media not report on it until three days after it began?

No matter how powerful the killer is or how modern his weapon, the magnitude and brutality of the crime he commits is so well-known that he cannot be free from the weakness of criminal guilt.

No pre-visit press statement was issued, no news of journey reported until the visit was well underway. It was an obvious abnormality, given that the region is under domestic and international scrutiny over accusations of genocide. The lack of announcement may have been to either surprise or hide it from people in the Uyghur region. The latter is likely true—there is no need to surprise the oppressed.

The reason for Xi Jinping’s lack of transparency is clear. He is aware of the crimes he has committed in the Uyghur region over the last five years.

Chinese officials have repeatedly and proudly stated that there has been no single violent incident in “Xinjiang” since the establishment of the “vocational training centers.” If it is so, why was Xi Jinping afraid of publicizing his visit to a region where the objective of zero violence has been achieved? This is because he has not reached this goal by solving the root of the problem—illegal occupation of Uyghur land and ethnic injustice policies in the region. Instead, he has fueled the problem with unprecedented crackdowns, including the incarceration of more than three million people. From a sociological perspective, a zero-violence record is not natural stability but artificial stability. It is not due to a lack of resistance; the resistance has moved underground. Xi Jinping is well aware of this fact and its dangers.

In 2014, Xi Jinping’s first visit to the region was “welcomed” by an explosion at the Urumqi train station. He may not have forgotten this precedent, so his latest visit may have been unannounced to leave potential attackers unprepared. However, hiding his travel dates and itinerary did not provide him with adequate comfort or confidence, and the police stations located every few blocks in Urumqi did not allow him enough freedom. This fear was reflected in the pictures of the official Xinhua news agency: the Uyghur residents, who surrounded Xi Jinping while smiling and applauding, mostly comprised women and the elderly. There were almost no young male residents.

What brought Xi Jinping to “Xinjiang”? Politically, he wanted to tell the world that he does not regret the genocide he has committed and for which he has been criticized; he does not care about international public opinion. With this message, Xi Jinping wanted to encourage his military, police forces, and Han settlers in the region. Psychologically, he was demonstrating his gratification over the successful concealment of thousands of corpses of those who have died in his camps and prisons, killed by his chauvinist comrades.

 

 
 

Another image of the visit. Young males still rare.
 
Boasting of strength is normal, but boasting of crime is not. While most murderers in human history have tried to cover their guilt with reasons and excuses, China has no such tradition. Holding up all the men in the military age in a captured nation, then boasting of a “zero-violence victory” is unique to Chinese officials. If China had won and formed this victory against the army of a state or against armed rebel groups in the region, it would have been possible to think there was a moral side to this, and a reason to be proud. In reality, it is a victory against a small and unorganized group of “terrorists” who had no weapons other than axes and knives. This victory came in killing these men, their wives, children, relatives, and neighbors and in incarcerating all residents who shared the same ethnic origin with them. It is a shameful victory of a power that has no decency, standards, or care for humanity.

The state media has shown Xi Jinping with a group of people who celebrated him by dancing and singing. Since the occupation of East Turkestan, the Chinese state has always hoped to see Uyghurs engaged in music and dance with no interest in politics. They also dreamed of seeing Uyghur Muslims who only pray but do not think and seek justice. That dream has not been realized, as it is incompatible with human nature. The Uyghur dancers around Xi Jinping are not reflective of the Uyghurs’ situation. They represent a scene that China wants the world to see and an expression of China’s unwavering colonial desire.

To understand this scene of dancing, one must read only two lines of dialog in a report by Radio Free Asia of some years ago. The reporter questioned a Kashgar resident:

Q: “How is the situation in Kashgar, especially the unity of Han settlers and Uyghurs?”

A: “The situation is normal. The unity of nationalities is wonderful because if we do not unite with the Han people, we will be imprisoned and shot.”

This is the real voice of the Uyghur people when they are given a path to express their will.

On the eve of Xi Jinping’s visit, in mid-June this year, “community corrections personnel” and Uyghurs suspected of participating in religious activities in some districts of Urumqi were transferred to several locations in southern Xinjiang for a month-long “legal education,” perhaps out of concerns for the safety of Xi Jinping.

Xi Jinping’s non-announcement and delayed reporting of his visit to “Xinjiang,” as well as the relocation of suspected Uyghurs from Urumqi, is an acknowledgment of his failures and that he has established peace in appearance only and not in essence. He has captured Uyghurs physically but not spiritually. Murderers cannot live in peace spiritually, regardless of their “power” and “success.” view all