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"Another concern came from the fact that in April 2024, Sheffield Hallam’s Beijing office was visited by three state security officers. An employee was questioned for two hours regarding the HKC. According to an internal summary of the meeting seen by the Guardian, “the tone was threatening and [the] message to cease the research activity was made clear”."
#academicchatter #uyghurs

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china

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"Another concern came from the fact that in April 2024, Sheffield Hallam’s Beijing office was visited by three state security officers. An employee was questioned for two hours regarding the HKC. According to an internal summary of the meeting seen by the Guardian, “the tone was threatening and [the] message to cease the research activity was made clear”."
#academicchatter #uyghurs

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china

‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom. “After fleeing Chinese repression, #Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunited“ | Transnational repression | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/23/china-uyghur-turkey-morocco-arrest #China #Morocco #Turkey #USA #Canada

‘They told me not to speak out’: the woman who took on China – and won her husband’s freedom. “After fleeing Chinese repression, #Uyghurs Idris and Zeynure Hasan thought their family would be safe. But Beijing’s growing influence led to Idris’s arrest and a long battle to be reunited“ | Transnational repression | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/23/china-uyghur-turkey-morocco-arrest #China #Morocco #Turkey #USA #Canada

Uyghurs and rights advocates have demanded the U.N. take action over a 2022 report detailing torture and abuse in China's Xinjiang region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/asia-pacific/politics/un-china-rights-abuses-xinjiang/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #uyghurs #xinjiang #china #humanrights #un

Uyghurs and rights advocates have demanded the U.N. take action over a 2022 report detailing torture and abuse in China's Xinjiang region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/10/asia-pacific/politics/un-china-rights-abuses-xinjiang/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #uyghurs #xinjiang #china #humanrights #un

Across #China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers…are trapped in a #digital cage, barred from leaving their province & sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital #surveillance apparatus. Most of this #technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the #UnitedStates.

#HumanRights#Uyghurs #police #government #dissent#PredictivePolicing#DigitalPoliceState#InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88

Such systems mine a vast array of information — texts, calls, payments, flights, video, DNA swabs, mail deliveries, the internet, even water & power use — to unearth individuals deemed suspicious & predict their behavior. But they also allow Chinese #police to threaten friends & family & preemptively detain people for crimes they have not even committed.

#HumanRights#US #tech#China#Uyghurs #government #dissent#PredictivePolicing#DigitalPoliceState#InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics

Across #China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers…are trapped in a #digital cage, barred from leaving their province & sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital #surveillance apparatus. Most of this #technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the #UnitedStates.

#HumanRights#Uyghurs #police #government #dissent#PredictivePolicing#DigitalPoliceState#InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88