#uighurs — Public Fediverse posts
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"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."
Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.
[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]
#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations
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The UN #humanrights supremo Volker Türk's straight talk on the genocidal treatment of #Uighurs under #Chinese occupation is very welcome, if painfully overdue.
#AmnestyInternational's #AgnesCallamard 'retweeting' it...? Now I'm anxiously waiting for the #bothsidesism argument. Did the Uighurs deserve it by having their one and only homeland only a week's nonstop horseride from the farthest Chinese imperial outpost in the west..?
#CCP #PRC #china #repression #genocide #EastTurkestan
@cmorris