Uighurs protest outside foreign ministry in Berlin ahead of visit by Chinese FM

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  • Title: Uighurs protest outside foreign ministry in Berlin ahead of visit by Chinese FM
  • Date: 1st September 2020
  • Summary: SHOTLIST: 1. WIDE SHOT OF PROTESTERS, SOME HOLDING UIGHUR FLAGS 2. WIDE SHOT OF PEOPLE WEARING YELLOW CLOTHES EXERCISING FALUN DAFA, CHINESE SPIRITUAL PRACTISE TO CULTIVATE BOTH MIND AND BODY 3. PROTESTERS 4. WIDE SHOT OF POLICE OFFICERS AND VEHICLE IN FRONT OF FOREIGN MINISTRY BUILDING 5. TIGHT SHOT OF FLAGS AND SIGNS BEING HELD UP 6. WOMEN HOLD SIGNS READING “NO FREEDOM UNTIL WE’RE ALL EQUAL”, “STAND UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS” 7. MAN SPEAKING THROUGH MICROPHONE 8. PROTESTERS HOLDING PICTURES OF UIGHURS VICTIMS, GERMAN FM MAAS, CHINESE FM WANG YI 9. GERMAN MAN SPEAKING THROUGH MICROPHONE 10. SLOGAN “FREE UYGUR” ON BACK OF BLUE VEST OF PROTESTER 11. ASIAN FALUN DAFA SUPPORTER WALKING BY PROTESTERS 12. WIDE SHOT OF POLICE OFFICERS AND VEHICLE IN FRONT OF FOREIGN MINISTRY BUILDING 13. UIGHUR MAN SPEAKING THROUGH MICROPHONE 14. TIGHT SHOT OF PROTESTERS HOLDING SIGNS, FLAGS, PICTURES 15. GIRL STANDING ON PICTURE OF FM WANG YI AS SHE WAVES FLAG 16. WIDE SHOT OF POLICE OFFICERS AND VEHICLES IN FRONT OF FOREIGN MINISTRY BUILDING BERLIN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 1, 2020) (AAVN-ACCESS ALL) SCRIPT: Several hundred people including members of the Chinese Uighur minority in Berlin staged a protest outside the foreign ministry in the German capital on Tuesday (September 1) ahead of a visit by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Waving the blue and white flag of the Uighurs the protesters said they were against pressure, persecution, and massacres by China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The demonstrators held banners reading “Stand up for human rights”, “Free Uyghur”. China is accused of locking up hundreds of thousands of Muslims without trial in its western region of Xinjiang. But the government denies the claims saying re-education camps have been established for the "educational transformation of people who have been influenced by extremism". In May 2014, China launched its “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism” in Xinjiang. Since then, over 1 million were formally arrested. Many refer to China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as East Turkestan. China’s Xinjiang region is home to around 10 million Uighurs. The Turkic Muslim group, which makes up around 45 percent of Xinjiang’s population, has long accused China’s authorities of cultural, religious, and economic discrimination. China stepped up its restrictions on the region in the past two years, banning men from growing beards and women from wearing veils and introducing what many experts see as the world’s most extensive electronic surveillance program, according to The Wall Street Journal. More than 1 million people, or about 7 percent of the Muslim population in Xinjiang, have been incarcerated in an expanding network of “political re-education” camps, according to U.S. officials and UN experts. Writing by Sibel Uygun.
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