Uighurs protest China's system of oppression

Record ID: 1908635

  • Title: Uighurs protest China's system of oppression
  • Date: 11th February 2021
  • Summary: SHOTLIST: 1. UIGHURS GATHERING NEAR CONSULATE GENERAL OF CHINA IN ISTANBUL. 2. GROUP CHANTING SLOGANS AGAINST CHINA'S WIDE-SCALE REPRESSION OF UIGHURS (TWO SHOTS) 3. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CARRYING PHOTOS OF THEIR FAMILIES AND RELATIVES 4. PEOPLE CARRYING BANNERS AND CHANTING SLOGANS AGAINST CHINA 5. MANY FLAGS OF EAST TURKESTAN AT SCENE 6. VARIOUS OF CHILDREN AND WOMEN CARRYING BANNERS AND CHANTING SLOGANS AGAINST CHINA 7. PEOPLE CARRYING PHOTOS OF THEIR FAMILIES AND RELATIVES (TWO SHOTS) 8. KID WAVING FLAG OF EAST TURKESTAN 9. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) SALIH EMIN, ONE OF PROTESTERS, SAYING: “Why does not the Chinese government allow international human rights organizations to enter China? Why doesn't the Chinese government let them go to the East Turkistan region (Xinjiang ) and do research there? Because the Chinese government is afraid of that. Because of the genocide, there is real. The Chinese government does not want other people around the world to know that this genocide is real. Therefore, the Chinese government does not allow international human rights organizations to go to the region." 10. PEOPLE CARRYING BANNERS AND CHANTING SLOGANS AGAINST CHINA (TWO SHOTS) ISTANBUL, TURKEY (FEB. 11, 2021) (AAVN - ACCESS ALL) SCRIPT Dozens of Uighur Turks living in Turkey on Thursday, Feb. 11, carried out a protest against China's repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang. Uighur Turks, who have not received any news from their families for a long time, gathered near Consulate General of China in Istanbul. The group carrying banners chanted slogans against China's wide-scale repression of Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in its northwestern region of Xinjiang (East Turkistan). Salih Emin, one of the protesters, claimed that the Chinese government is trying to hide the genocide in Xinjiang from the world. “Why does not the Chinese government allow international human rights organizations to enter China? Why doesn't the Chinese government let them go to the East Turkistan region (Xinjiang ) and do research there? Because the Chinese government is afraid of that. Because of the genocide, there is real. The Chinese government does not want other people around the world to know that this genocide is real. Therefore, the Chinese government does not allow the international human rights organizations to go to the region,” he said. He called on all international organizations, especially the United Nations, to stop China's repression of Uighurs. -China’s violations against Uighurs China’s Xinjiang region (East Turkistan) is home to over 10 million Uighurs. The Turkic Muslim group, which makes up around 45% 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 introduced what many experts see as the world’s most extensive electronic surveillance program, according to The Wall Street Journal. Up to 1 million people, or about 7% of the Muslim population in Xinjiang, have been incarcerated in an expanding network of “political re-education” camps, according to US officials and UN experts. A 2018 Human Rights Watch report detailed a Chinese government campaign of “mass arbitrary detention, torture, forced political indoctrination, and mass surveillance of Xinjiang's Muslims.” Moreover, on Jan. 19, the Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said China committed "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" in its treatment of Muslim Uighurs and ethnic minorities in its autonomous Xinjiang region. He said the US documented China's actions in Xinjiang since March 2017, and local Chinese authorities stepped up their campaign of repression against Uighurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups, including ethnic Kazakhs and ethnic Kyrgyz. China has repeatedly denied allegations that it is operating detention camps in its northwestern autonomous region, claiming instead that they are “re-educating” Uighurs.
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