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Reform’s media presenter worked for Chinese state propaganda channel
By Anna Isaac and Ben Quinn

Party podcast and social media host Ray Addison fronted films about province where China is accused of genocide

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/03/reform-media-presenter-worked-chinese-state-propaganda-channel

#ReformUK #Politics #China #Uyghurs #Xinjiang #UKnews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AnnaIsaac #BenQuinn

Reform’s media presenter worked for Chinese state propaganda channel
By Anna Isaac and Ben Quinn

Party podcast and social media host Ray Addison fronted films about province where China is accused of genocide

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/03/reform-media-presenter-worked-chinese-state-propaganda-channel

#ReformUK #Politics #China #Uyghurs #Xinjiang #UKnews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AnnaIsaac #BenQuinn

Reform’s media presenter worked for Chinese state propaganda channel
By Anna Isaac and Ben Quinn

Party podcast and social media host Ray Addison fronted films about province where China is accused of genocide

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/03/reform-media-presenter-worked-chinese-state-propaganda-channel

#ReformUK #Politics #China #Uyghurs #Xinjiang #UKnews #Worldnews #TheGuardian #AnnaIsaac #BenQuinn

China’s new cotton law deepens control over Uyghur farmers’ land and labor

https://globalvoices.org/2026/08/28/chinas-new-cotton-law-deepens-control-over-uyghur-farmers-land-and-labor/

> The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.

#Uyghur #china #Uyghurs

China’s new cotton law deepens control over Uyghur farmers’ land and labor

https://globalvoices.org/2026/08/28/chinas-new-cotton-law-deepens-control-over-uyghur-farmers-land-and-labor/

> The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.

#Uyghur #china #Uyghurs

China’s new cotton law deepens control over Uyghur farmers’ land and labor

https://globalvoices.org/2026/08/28/chinas-new-cotton-law-deepens-control-over-uyghur-farmers-land-and-labor/

> The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.

#Uyghur #china #Uyghurs

China’s new cotton law deepens control over Uyghur farmers’ land and labor

https://globalvoices.org/2026/08/28/chinas-new-cotton-law-deepens-control-over-uyghur-farmers-land-and-labor/

> The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.

#Uyghur #china #Uyghurs

China’s new cotton law deepens control over Uyghur farmers’ land and labor

https://globalvoices.org/2026/08/28/chinas-new-cotton-law-deepens-control-over-uyghur-farmers-land-and-labor/

> The official documents China's new cotton-quality regulation show how cotton production is being integrated into a system of land transfer, labor mobilisation, political instruction, and digital surveillance.

#Uyghur #china #Uyghurs

Beijing's actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/27/world/chinas-ethnic-unity-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #lawonpromotingethnicunityandprogress #uyghurs #xijinping #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #us #humanrights #eu #un

Beijing's actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/27/world/chinas-ethnic-unity-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #lawonpromotingethnicunityandprogress #uyghurs #xijinping #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #us #humanrights #eu #un

Beijing's actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/27/world/chinas-ethnic-unity-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #lawonpromotingethnicunityandprogress #uyghurs #xijinping #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #us #humanrights #eu #un

Beijing's actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/27/world/chinas-ethnic-unity-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #lawonpromotingethnicunityandprogress #uyghurs #xijinping #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #us #humanrights #eu #un

Beijing's actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/08/27/world/chinas-ethnic-unity-law/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #lawonpromotingethnicunityandprogress #uyghurs #xijinping #chinesecommunistparty #ccp #us #humanrights #eu #un

Twenty-four years after I left journalism as a full-time journalist and the @ucanews.bsky.social after spending over three year at @scmpnews.bsky.social mostly as a court reporter, I have tried to write a news feature again.
This time is about #Uyghurs and "counter-terrorism" to join UCAN's initiative to commemorate the 9-11 attack, not Catholics and Christians. https://www.ucanews.com/news/how-china-turned-the-war-on-terror-against-the-uyghurs/114847

Twenty-four years after I left journalism as a full-time journalist and the @ucanews.bsky.social after spending over three year at @scmpnews.bsky.social mostly as a court reporter, I have tried to write a news feature again.
This time is about #Uyghurs and "counter-terrorism" to join UCAN's initiative to commemorate the 9-11 attack, not Catholics and Christians. https://www.ucanews.com/news/how-china-turned-the-war-on-terror-against-the-uyghurs/114847

Twenty-four years after I left journalism as a full-time journalist and the @ucanews.bsky.social after spending over three year at @scmpnews.bsky.social mostly as a court reporter, I have tried to write a news feature again.
This time is about #Uyghurs and "counter-terrorism" to join UCAN's initiative to commemorate the 9-11 attack, not Catholics and Christians. https://www.ucanews.com/news/how-china-turned-the-war-on-terror-against-the-uyghurs/114847

Twenty-four years after I left journalism as a full-time journalist and the @ucanews.bsky.social after spending over three year at @scmpnews.bsky.social mostly as a court reporter, I have tried to write a news feature again.
This time is about #Uyghurs and "counter-terrorism" to join UCAN's initiative to commemorate the 9-11 attack, not Catholics and Christians. https://www.ucanews.com/news/how-china-turned-the-war-on-terror-against-the-uyghurs/114847

Coercion by the Chinese of the diaspora

Chinese government seeks to coerce Uyghurs living overseas

August 20206

Not content with seeking to extinguish a people and a culture in its own backyard, the Chinese are engaged in a variety of coercive tactics overseas. In Australia the Chinese government is interrogating Uyghur Australians visiting Xinjiang, pressing them to collect information on Uyghurs in Australia, Human Rights Watch said today as its executive director, Philippe Bolopion, visited Australia. 

Chinese authorities have long engaged in transnational repression—human rights abuses committed beyond a country’s borders to curtail dissent—against Uyghurs living abroad and their relatives in Xinjiang, by targeting activists critical of the Chinese government. By pressing visitors to provide information about Uyghur activists, organizations, and language schools in Australia, the authorities are repressing the rights of Uyghurs in Australia to freedom of expression, association, culture, and family life.

“The Chinese government exploits the vulnerability of separated Uyghur families as an opportunity for surveillance and disruption of communities abroad,” said Philippe Bolopion, executive director at Human Rights Watch. “Interrogating Uyghurs visiting Xinjiang and strict monitoring of diaspora activities have a chilling effect emblematic of Beijing’s transnational repression in Australia.”

Transnational repression

Visitors to Xinjiang can only do so under very strict conditions and are required to report to the authorities every day. Another Uyghur Australian said authorities interrogated him more than a dozen times, once for more than seven hours: “They asked for addresses and phone numbers of several prominent Uyghur activists in Australia.” When he said he did not have that information, the police pressed him to monitor the activists’ activities upon returning to Australia and photograph them during events. 

Beijing’s transnational repression derives its impact abroad from these crimes. Chinese authorities use the vulnerability of relatives in Xinjiang, restrictions on travel and communication, and fear of retaliation to pressure Uyghurs abroad.

Since the start of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Strike Hard Campaign in Xinjiang in late 2016, the authorities have arbitrarily confiscated Uyghurs’ passports in the region, and punished Uyghurs for contacting family members and others abroad. While the authorities are now permitting select Uyghurs to travel internationally or to visit family members in Xinjiang, they continue to exert tight control over those who travel.

Although this is a description of the CCP’s actions in Australia, it will be replicated around the world including the UK.

Massive destruction of mosques

We have concentrated in these posts on people aspects which of course is extremely important. But the UK government also discusses actions by the Chinese against culture including mosques. Satellite imagery and witness reports indicate that around 16,000 mosques, approximately 65% of the total in Xinjiang, have been destroyed or damaged by the government, with about 8,500 demolished entirely and much of the land left vacant. Additionally, 30% of key Islamic sacred sites, including shrines and cemeteries, have been demolished, and 28% of altered mosques have been repurposed (see State treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang province – Mosques and Islamic spaces). The full analysis by the UK government of the tragedy taking place there can be read here.

These actions represent a crime against humanity and are receiving too little attention in the West as we have noted previously.

We are grateful to Human Rights Watch for much of the material in this post. Image: protestors in Australia.

• Coercion by the Chinese of the diaspora
• Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign
• Podcast Episode: Xinjiang Forced Labour Campaign
• Slavery was abolished in 1807* – Not in Xinjiang
• Uyghur campaign progress

Coercion by the Chinese of the diaspora

Chinese government seeks to coerce Uyghurs living overseas

August 20206

Not content with seeking to extinguish a people and a culture in its own backyard, the Chinese are engaged in a variety of coercive tactics overseas. In Australia the Chinese government is interrogating Uyghur Australians visiting Xinjiang, pressing them to collect information on Uyghurs in Australia, Human Rights Watch said today as its executive director, Philippe Bolopion, visited Australia. 

Chinese authorities have long engaged in transnational repression—human rights abuses committed beyond a country’s borders to curtail dissent—against Uyghurs living abroad and their relatives in Xinjiang, by targeting activists critical of the Chinese government. By pressing visitors to provide information about Uyghur activists, organizations, and language schools in Australia, the authorities are repressing the rights of Uyghurs in Australia to freedom of expression, association, culture, and family life.

“The Chinese government exploits the vulnerability of separated Uyghur families as an opportunity for surveillance and disruption of communities abroad,” said Philippe Bolopion, executive director at Human Rights Watch. “Interrogating Uyghurs visiting Xinjiang and strict monitoring of diaspora activities have a chilling effect emblematic of Beijing’s transnational repression in Australia.”

Transnational repression

Visitors to Xinjiang can only do so under very strict conditions and are required to report to the authorities every day. Another Uyghur Australian said authorities interrogated him more than a dozen times, once for more than seven hours: “They asked for addresses and phone numbers of several prominent Uyghur activists in Australia.” When he said he did not have that information, the police pressed him to monitor the activists’ activities upon returning to Australia and photograph them during events. 

Beijing’s transnational repression derives its impact abroad from these crimes. Chinese authorities use the vulnerability of relatives in Xinjiang, restrictions on travel and communication, and fear of retaliation to pressure Uyghurs abroad.

Since the start of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Strike Hard Campaign in Xinjiang in late 2016, the authorities have arbitrarily confiscated Uyghurs’ passports in the region, and punished Uyghurs for contacting family members and others abroad. While the authorities are now permitting select Uyghurs to travel internationally or to visit family members in Xinjiang, they continue to exert tight control over those who travel.

Although this is a description of the CCP’s actions in Australia, it will be replicated around the world including the UK.

Massive destruction of mosques

We have concentrated in these posts on people aspects which of course is extremely important. But the UK government also discusses actions by the Chinese against culture including mosques. Satellite imagery and witness reports indicate that around 16,000 mosques, approximately 65% of the total in Xinjiang, have been destroyed or damaged by the government, with about 8,500 demolished entirely and much of the land left vacant. Additionally, 30% of key Islamic sacred sites, including shrines and cemeteries, have been demolished, and 28% of altered mosques have been repurposed (see State treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang province – Mosques and Islamic spaces). The full analysis by the UK government of the tragedy taking place there can be read here.

These actions represent a crime against humanity and are receiving too little attention in the West as we have noted previously.

We are grateful to Human Rights Watch for much of the material in this post. Image: protestors in Australia.

• Coercion by the Chinese of the diaspora
• Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign
• Podcast Episode: Xinjiang Forced Labour Campaign
• Slavery was abolished in 1807* – Not in Xinjiang
• Uyghur campaign progress

Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign

Well attended meeting added useful insights into the campaign

August 2026

Several new topics and concerns emerged from this well attended Zoom meeting including from four Uyghurs living in the West. It is worth reflecting on the wider issues that the repression of minorities in China – of which the Uyghur people are just one – and that is the extent of the barbarity being perpetrated by the Chinese state and the CCP. This is a highly organised and well planned series of actions against an entire community of people which is unparalleled in the modern era. It is being committed by a state which was closely involved in the preparation and signing of the Universal Declaration after the War. China is also on the Security Council of the United Nations a position and status which is entirely undeserved.

The numbers are massive with 1.8 million taken away from their homes to be ‘re-educated’ but a further half million have been sentenced and forced to work in China itself.

We were introduced to the observable fact that there is little press or media interest in the fate of these people. Indeed, one can mention the campaign and the plight of the Uyghurs usually to receive blank looks. Awareness is low. The reasons are not hard to find: it is a long way away and the Chinese have banned almost all journalists from entering the region. So what extra did we learn this evening?

First from a Uyghur woman living in the US whose father is in prison for life for speaking out. He has not been heard from since 2017. She does not know whether he is alive and a request for ‘proof of life’ has not been answered. It is hard to imagine an action so cruel as this.

Another Uyghur who is living in the UK has witnessed the pain in her parent’s lives as they have lost contact with their culture. Contact is banned and contacts from overseas can result in punishment for those receiving them in Xinjiang. She is often asked about Uyghur culture but in fact seldom knows how to reply since all contact is lost. Another spoke of his brother in gaol for his journalism and he believes his conditions have got harsher.

Organ harvesting

The most chilling of the comments however concerns organ harvesting. Visitors might want to read the Hansard debate on this topic ten years ago which discussed this disgusting activity or a more recent UN report. The focus at the time was the Falun Gong but it has spread to Tibetans, Mongolians and now the Uyghur. The harvesting of organs is on a massive scale. According to the allegations received, the most common organs removed from the prisoners are reportedly hearts, kidneys, livers, corneas and, less commonly, parts of livers. They are extracted from prisoners often without anaesthetic. The role of a British university in the trade has been recently revealed.

Transnational repression

Other speakers told of Chinese transnational repression. Nobody in the Chinese diaspora is safe from the activities of the Chinese state which expends enormous efforts to silence critics overseas. This is why plans to build the massive embassy in London is so dangerous. Not only will it enhance and facilitate Chinese espionage activities but it will also help in their attempts to intimidate, threaten or coerce those who criticise China. That this embassy is even being considered is extremely unwise.

There was brief mention of the reach of our posts into China with views from over 50 cities and from Hong Kong.

The CCP and its leader Xi Jinping seems almost paranoid. The state has the most extensive video surveillance system in the world. Media and the internet are closely controlled. It is hellbent on extinguishing any non-Chinese culture such as the Uyghurs, having done the same in Tibet and Mongolia. Freedoms in Hong Kong were quickly extinguished.

But we hear little of this in the UK. Politicians are largely mute. The Chinese are sensitive to direct or forthright criticism and so western politicians express their disquiet in private (they claim). But do they? There is next to no media interest or reporting. Issues in which Beijing diverges from the norms of the current system, such as human rights, it seeks to undermine those values and create alternative institutions and models. China works with other authoritarian powers such as Russia to create standards that reflect their interests for example internet governance.

The campaign continues …

Recent posts:

• Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign
• Podcast Episode: Xinjiang Forced Labour Campaign
• Slavery was abolished in 1807* – Not in Xinjiang
• Uyghur campaign progress
• Another vigil and is the mood changing in the US?

Image: repression in Xinjiang, Hudson

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Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign

Well attended meeting added useful insights into the campaign

August 2026

Several new topics and concerns emerged from this well attended Zoom meeting including from four Uyghurs living in the West. It is worth reflecting on the wider issues that the repression of minorities in China – of which the Uyghur people are just one – and that is the extent of the barbarity being perpetrated by the Chinese state and the CCP. This is a highly organised and well planned series of actions against an entire community of people which is unparalleled in the modern era. It is being committed by a state which was closely involved in the preparation and signing of the Universal Declaration after the War. China is also on the Security Council of the United Nations a position and status which is entirely undeserved.

The numbers are massive with 1.8 million taken away from their homes to be ‘re-educated’ but a further half million have been sentenced and forced to work in China itself.

We were introduced to the observable fact that there is little press or media interest in the fate of these people. Indeed, one can mention the campaign and the plight of the Uyghurs usually to receive blank looks. Awareness is low. The reasons are not hard to find: it is a long way away and the Chinese have banned almost all journalists from entering the region. So what extra did we learn this evening?

First from a Uyghur woman living in the US whose father is in prison for life for speaking out. He has not been heard from since 2017. She does not know whether he is alive and a request for ‘proof of life’ has not been answered. It is hard to imagine an action so cruel as this.

Another Uyghur who is living in the UK has witnessed the pain in her parent’s lives as they have lost contact with their culture. Contact is banned and contacts from overseas can result in punishment for those receiving them in Xinjiang. She is often asked about Uyghur culture but in fact seldom knows how to reply since all contact is lost. Another spoke of his brother in gaol for his journalism and he believes his conditions have got harsher.

Organ harvesting

The most chilling of the comments however concerns organ harvesting. Visitors might want to read the Hansard debate on this topic ten years ago which discussed this disgusting activity or a more recent UN report. The focus at the time was the Falun Gong but it has spread to Tibetans, Mongolians and now the Uyghur. The harvesting of organs is on a massive scale. According to the allegations received, the most common organs removed from the prisoners are reportedly hearts, kidneys, livers, corneas and, less commonly, parts of livers. They are extracted from prisoners often without anaesthetic. The role of a British university in the trade has been recently revealed.

Transnational repression

Other speakers told of Chinese transnational repression. Nobody in the Chinese diaspora is safe from the activities of the Chinese state which expends enormous efforts to silence critics overseas. This is why plans to build the massive embassy in London is so dangerous. Not only will it enhance and facilitate Chinese espionage activities but it will also help in their attempts to intimidate, threaten or coerce those who criticise China. That this embassy is even being considered is extremely unwise.

There was brief mention of the reach of our posts into China with views from over 50 cities and from Hong Kong.

The CCP and its leader Xi Jinping seems almost paranoid. The state has the most extensive video surveillance system in the world. Media and the internet are closely controlled. It is hellbent on extinguishing any non-Chinese culture such as the Uyghurs, having done the same in Tibet and Mongolia. Freedoms in Hong Kong were quickly extinguished.

But we hear little of this in the UK. Politicians are largely mute. The Chinese are sensitive to direct or forthright criticism and so western politicians express their disquiet in private (they claim). But do they? There is next to no media interest or reporting. Issues in which Beijing diverges from the norms of the current system, such as human rights, it seeks to undermine those values and create alternative institutions and models. China works with other authoritarian powers such as Russia to create standards that reflect their interests for example internet governance.

The campaign continues …

Recent posts:

• Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign
• Podcast Episode: Xinjiang Forced Labour Campaign
• Slavery was abolished in 1807* – Not in Xinjiang
• Uyghur campaign progress
• Another vigil and is the mood changing in the US?

Image: repression in Xinjiang, Hudson

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Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign

Well attended meeting added useful insights into the campaign

August 2026

Several new topics and concerns emerged from this well attended Zoom meeting including from four Uyghurs living in the West. It is worth reflecting on the wider issues that the repression of minorities in China – of which the Uyghur people are just one – and that is the extent of the barbarity being perpetrated by the Chinese state and the CCP. This is a highly organised and well planned series of actions against an entire community of people which is unparalleled in the modern era. It is being committed by a state which was closely involved in the preparation and signing of the Universal Declaration after the War. China is also on the Security Council of the United Nations a position and status which is entirely undeserved.

The numbers are massive with 1.8 million taken away from their homes to be ‘re-educated’ but a further half million have been sentenced and forced to work in China itself.

We were introduced to the observable fact that there is little press or media interest in the fate of these people. Indeed, one can mention the campaign and the plight of the Uyghurs usually to receive blank looks. Awareness is low. The reasons are not hard to find: it is a long way away and the Chinese have banned almost all journalists from entering the region. So what extra did we learn this evening?

First from a Uyghur woman living in the US whose father is in prison for life for speaking out. He has not been heard from since 2017. She does not know whether he is alive and a request for ‘proof of life’ has not been answered. It is hard to imagine an action so cruel as this.

Another Uyghur who is living in the UK has witnessed the pain in her parent’s lives as they have lost contact with their culture. Contact is banned and contacts from overseas can result in punishment for those receiving them in Xinjiang. She is often asked about Uyghur culture but in fact seldom knows how to reply since all contact is lost. Another spoke of his brother in gaol for his journalism and he believes his conditions have got harsher.

Organ harvesting

The most chilling of the comments however concerns organ harvesting. Visitors might want to read the Hansard debate on this topic ten years ago which discussed this disgusting activity or a more recent UN report. The focus at the time was the Falun Gong but it has spread to Tibetans, Mongolians and now the Uyghur. The harvesting of organs is on a massive scale. According to the allegations received, the most common organs removed from the prisoners are reportedly hearts, kidneys, livers, corneas and, less commonly, parts of livers. They are extracted from prisoners often without anaesthetic. The role of a British university in the trade has been recently revealed.

Transnational repression

Other speakers told of Chinese transnational repression. Nobody in the Chinese diaspora is safe from the activities of the Chinese state which expends enormous efforts to silence critics overseas. This is why plans to build the massive embassy in London is so dangerous. Not only will it enhance and facilitate Chinese espionage activities but it will also help in their attempts to intimidate, threaten or coerce those who criticise China. That this embassy is even being considered is extremely unwise.

There was brief mention of the reach of our posts into China with views from over 50 cities and from Hong Kong.

The CCP and its leader Xi Jinping seems almost paranoid. The state has the most extensive video surveillance system in the world. Media and the internet are closely controlled. It is hellbent on extinguishing any non-Chinese culture such as the Uyghurs, having done the same in Tibet and Mongolia. Freedoms in Hong Kong were quickly extinguished.

But we hear little of this in the UK. Politicians are largely mute. The Chinese are sensitive to direct or forthright criticism and so western politicians express their disquiet in private (they claim). But do they? There is next to no media interest or reporting. Issues in which Beijing diverges from the norms of the current system, such as human rights, it seeks to undermine those values and create alternative institutions and models. China works with other authoritarian powers such as Russia to create standards that reflect their interests for example internet governance.

The campaign continues …

Recent posts:

• Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign
• Podcast Episode: Xinjiang Forced Labour Campaign
• Slavery was abolished in 1807* – Not in Xinjiang
• Uyghur campaign progress
• Another vigil and is the mood changing in the US?

Image: repression in Xinjiang, Hudson

Thought of subscribing?

Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign

Well attended meeting added useful insights into the campaign

August 2026

Several new topics and concerns emerged from this well attended Zoom meeting including from four Uyghurs living in the West. It is worth reflecting on the wider issues that the repression of minorities in China – of which the Uyghur people are just one – and that is the extent of the barbarity being perpetrated by the Chinese state and the CCP. This is a highly organised and well planned series of actions against an entire community of people which is unparalleled in the modern era. It is being committed by a state which was closely involved in the preparation and signing of the Universal Declaration after the War. China is also on the Security Council of the United Nations a position and status which is entirely undeserved.

The numbers are massive with 1.8 million taken away from their homes to be ‘re-educated’ but a further half million have been sentenced and forced to work in China itself.

We were introduced to the observable fact that there is little press or media interest in the fate of these people. Indeed, one can mention the campaign and the plight of the Uyghurs usually to receive blank looks. Awareness is low. The reasons are not hard to find: it is a long way away and the Chinese have banned almost all journalists from entering the region. So what extra did we learn this evening?

First from a Uyghur woman living in the US whose father is in prison for life for speaking out. He has not been heard from since 2017. She does not know whether he is alive and a request for ‘proof of life’ has not been answered. It is hard to imagine an action so cruel as this.

Another Uyghur who is living in the UK has witnessed the pain in her parent’s lives as they have lost contact with their culture. Contact is banned and contacts from overseas can result in punishment for those receiving them in Xinjiang. She is often asked about Uyghur culture but in fact seldom knows how to reply since all contact is lost. Another spoke of his brother in gaol for his journalism and he believes his conditions have got harsher.

Organ harvesting

The most chilling of the comments however concerns organ harvesting. Visitors might want to read the Hansard debate on this topic ten years ago which discussed this disgusting activity or a more recent UN report. The focus at the time was the Falun Gong but it has spread to Tibetans, Mongolians and now the Uyghur. The harvesting of organs is on a massive scale. According to the allegations received, the most common organs removed from the prisoners are reportedly hearts, kidneys, livers, corneas and, less commonly, parts of livers. They are extracted from prisoners often without anaesthetic. The role of a British university in the trade has been recently revealed.

Transnational repression

Other speakers told of Chinese transnational repression. Nobody in the Chinese diaspora is safe from the activities of the Chinese state which expends enormous efforts to silence critics overseas. This is why plans to build the massive embassy in London is so dangerous. Not only will it enhance and facilitate Chinese espionage activities but it will also help in their attempts to intimidate, threaten or coerce those who criticise China. That this embassy is even being considered is extremely unwise.

There was brief mention of the reach of our posts into China with views from over 50 cities and from Hong Kong.

The CCP and its leader Xi Jinping seems almost paranoid. The state has the most extensive video surveillance system in the world. Media and the internet are closely controlled. It is hellbent on extinguishing any non-Chinese culture such as the Uyghurs, having done the same in Tibet and Mongolia. Freedoms in Hong Kong were quickly extinguished.

But we hear little of this in the UK. Politicians are largely mute. The Chinese are sensitive to direct or forthright criticism and so western politicians express their disquiet in private (they claim). But do they? There is next to no media interest or reporting. Issues in which Beijing diverges from the norms of the current system, such as human rights, it seeks to undermine those values and create alternative institutions and models. China works with other authoritarian powers such as Russia to create standards that reflect their interests for example internet governance.

The campaign continues …

Recent posts:

• Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign
• Podcast Episode: Xinjiang Forced Labour Campaign
• Slavery was abolished in 1807* – Not in Xinjiang
• Uyghur campaign progress
• Another vigil and is the mood changing in the US?

Image: repression in Xinjiang, Hudson

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Uyghur campaign: letter

Group members publish letter in local paper

August 2026

Two members of the local group have their letter published today (13th) on the Uyghur campaign in the Salisbury Journal:

“DURING  August, the local Amnesty group is taking part in the Uyghur Solidarity Month to highlight the dire human rights situation in that part of China.

“The UN Commissioner for Human Rights said there were credible allegations that the Chinese government had carried out arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, family separation and severe restrictions on religious and cultural freedoms on a vast scale.   Reading a book in their language is punished and might result in execution.

“Despite these findings, the suffering of the Uyghur people continues while the world looks on. More than a million Uyghurs have been detained and countless families have been torn apart. 

“Survivors describe detention camps where torture, rape, forced labour and coercive birth control measures are carried out by the Chinese. Whether one views this issue through the lens of International law, religious freedom human rights or human dignity, the plight of these people deserves continued public attention. 

“Further background can be found on the Salisbury Amnesty site www.salisburyai.com

Lesley and Peter Curbishley”

The letter was modelled on one suggested by the campaign team which had to be shortened because of the paper’s word limit.

• Uyghur campaign: letter
• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out

Uyghur campaign: letter

Group members publish letter in local paper

August 2026

Two members of the local group have their letter published today (13th) on the Uyghur campaign in the Salisbury Journal:

“DURING  August, the local Amnesty group is taking part in the Uyghur Solidarity Month to highlight the dire human rights situation in that part of China.

“The UN Commissioner for Human Rights said there were credible allegations that the Chinese government had carried out arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, family separation and severe restrictions on religious and cultural freedoms on a vast scale.   Reading a book in their language is punished and might result in execution.

“Despite these findings, the suffering of the Uyghur people continues while the world looks on. More than a million Uyghurs have been detained and countless families have been torn apart. 

“Survivors describe detention camps where torture, rape, forced labour and coercive birth control measures are carried out by the Chinese. Whether one views this issue through the lens of International law, religious freedom human rights or human dignity, the plight of these people deserves continued public attention. 

“Further background can be found on the Salisbury Amnesty site www.salisburyai.com

Lesley and Peter Curbishley”

The letter was modelled on one suggested by the campaign team which had to be shortened because of the paper’s word limit.

• Uyghur campaign: letter
• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out

Uyghur campaign: letter

Group members publish letter in local paper

August 2026

Two members of the local group have their letter published today (13th) on the Uyghur campaign in the Salisbury Journal:

“DURING  August, the local Amnesty group is taking part in the Uyghur Solidarity Month to highlight the dire human rights situation in that part of China.

“The UN Commissioner for Human Rights said there were credible allegations that the Chinese government had carried out arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, family separation and severe restrictions on religious and cultural freedoms on a vast scale.   Reading a book in their language is punished and might result in execution.

“Despite these findings, the suffering of the Uyghur people continues while the world looks on. More than a million Uyghurs have been detained and countless families have been torn apart. 

“Survivors describe detention camps where torture, rape, forced labour and coercive birth control measures are carried out by the Chinese. Whether one views this issue through the lens of International law, religious freedom human rights or human dignity, the plight of these people deserves continued public attention. 

“Further background can be found on the Salisbury Amnesty site www.salisburyai.com

Lesley and Peter Curbishley”

The letter was modelled on one suggested by the campaign team which had to be shortened because of the paper’s word limit.

• Uyghur campaign: letter
• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out

Uyghur campaign: letter

Group members publish letter in local paper

August 2026

Two members of the local group have their letter published today (13th) on the Uyghur campaign in the Salisbury Journal:

“DURING  August, the local Amnesty group is taking part in the Uyghur Solidarity Month to highlight the dire human rights situation in that part of China.

“The UN Commissioner for Human Rights said there were credible allegations that the Chinese government had carried out arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, family separation and severe restrictions on religious and cultural freedoms on a vast scale.   Reading a book in their language is punished and might result in execution.

“Despite these findings, the suffering of the Uyghur people continues while the world looks on. More than a million Uyghurs have been detained and countless families have been torn apart. 

“Survivors describe detention camps where torture, rape, forced labour and coercive birth control measures are carried out by the Chinese. Whether one views this issue through the lens of International law, religious freedom human rights or human dignity, the plight of these people deserves continued public attention. 

“Further background can be found on the Salisbury Amnesty site www.salisburyai.com

Lesley and Peter Curbishley”

The letter was modelled on one suggested by the campaign team which had to be shortened because of the paper’s word limit.

• Uyghur campaign: letter
• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out

Uyghur campaign – day 11

Latest action in relation to the persecution of the Uyghurs

August 2026

Today’s action is a little bit different, as we will focus on issues closer to home rather than exclusively on the rights of the Uyghurs.  We are asking you to sign the Amnesty petition to ‘protect the protest’ – something that we feel is ultimately essential to the future of all human rights campaigning. 

In some of our recent posts, we have started to include issues concerning the UK with successive attempts by governments to clamp down on unwelcome protests. In the UK, new laws are constraining our ability protest peacefully, which is an attack on our political rights. It risks creating a precedent and mark the beginning of more infringements on our ability to campaign on human rights. The UK is not of course in the same league as China where repression and stifling of rights is on a massive scale.

However, governments are dilatory about climate actions, are determined to assist Israel overtly and covertly in their violence, and are happy to support and allow arms sales to a wide variety of obnoxious regimes with poor human rights records. Voluble protests against these actions are unwelcome.

We want to protect our ability to run campaigns such as this one on the Uyghurs. In the end, protecting our political rights means protecting the future work we will do for human rights globally. The current laws that impact our ability to protest peacefully, which infringes not only on basic human rights to assembly, association, and expression (Articles 10 and 11, Human Rights Act), also creates nearly 7,000 climate protesters were arrested in the UK between 2019 and mid-2025.

Since 2021, the government has proposed four different anti-protest laws in four years. Police have arrested 3,300 people for peaceful protest against the proscription of Palestine Action. The actual prosecution of peaceful protesters in the UK threatens our ability to raise our voices for human rights around the world. It is also an infringement on political rights that limits a human rights response in any instance of further infringement.

For the health of our human rights futures (and therefore, our ability to campaign for others) please sign this petition: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/authoritarianism/protect-the-protest/

Although this is not directly related to the Uyghurs as part of the Uyghur Solidarity Month, we did suggest in our last post on this topic an action to speak to a friend or colleague.

• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out
• Uyghurs part of repression of all minorities in China

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Uyghur campaign – day 11

Latest action in relation to the persecution of the Uyghurs

August 2026

Today’s action is a little bit different, as we will focus on issues closer to home rather than exclusively on the rights of the Uyghurs.  We are asking you to sign the Amnesty petition to ‘protect the protest’ – something that we feel is ultimately essential to the future of all human rights campaigning. 

In some of our recent posts, we have started to include issues concerning the UK with successive attempts by governments to clamp down on unwelcome protests. In the UK, new laws are constraining our ability protest peacefully, which is an attack on our political rights. It risks creating a precedent and mark the beginning of more infringements on our ability to campaign on human rights. The UK is not of course in the same league as China where repression and stifling of rights is on a massive scale.

However, governments are dilatory about climate actions, are determined to assist Israel overtly and covertly in their violence, and are happy to support and allow arms sales to a wide variety of obnoxious regimes with poor human rights records. Voluble protests against these actions are unwelcome.

We want to protect our ability to run campaigns such as this one on the Uyghurs. In the end, protecting our political rights means protecting the future work we will do for human rights globally. The current laws that impact our ability to protest peacefully, which infringes not only on basic human rights to assembly, association, and expression (Articles 10 and 11, Human Rights Act), also creates nearly 7,000 climate protesters were arrested in the UK between 2019 and mid-2025.

Since 2021, the government has proposed four different anti-protest laws in four years. Police have arrested 3,300 people for peaceful protest against the proscription of Palestine Action. The actual prosecution of peaceful protesters in the UK threatens our ability to raise our voices for human rights around the world. It is also an infringement on political rights that limits a human rights response in any instance of further infringement.

For the health of our human rights futures (and therefore, our ability to campaign for others) please sign this petition: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/authoritarianism/protect-the-protest/

Although this is not directly related to the Uyghurs as part of the Uyghur Solidarity Month, we did suggest in our last post on this topic an action to speak to a friend or colleague.

• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out
• Uyghurs part of repression of all minorities in China

Thought of subscribing?

Uyghur campaign – day 11

Latest action in relation to the persecution of the Uyghurs

August 2026

Today’s action is a little bit different, as we will focus on issues closer to home rather than exclusively on the rights of the Uyghurs.  We are asking you to sign the Amnesty petition to ‘protect the protest’ – something that we feel is ultimately essential to the future of all human rights campaigning. 

In some of our recent posts, we have started to include issues concerning the UK with successive attempts by governments to clamp down on unwelcome protests. In the UK, new laws are constraining our ability protest peacefully, which is an attack on our political rights. It risks creating a precedent and mark the beginning of more infringements on our ability to campaign on human rights. The UK is not of course in the same league as China where repression and stifling of rights is on a massive scale.

However, governments are dilatory about climate actions, are determined to assist Israel overtly and covertly in their violence, and are happy to support and allow arms sales to a wide variety of obnoxious regimes with poor human rights records. Voluble protests against these actions are unwelcome.

We want to protect our ability to run campaigns such as this one on the Uyghurs. In the end, protecting our political rights means protecting the future work we will do for human rights globally. The current laws that impact our ability to protest peacefully, which infringes not only on basic human rights to assembly, association, and expression (Articles 10 and 11, Human Rights Act), also creates nearly 7,000 climate protesters were arrested in the UK between 2019 and mid-2025.

Since 2021, the government has proposed four different anti-protest laws in four years. Police have arrested 3,300 people for peaceful protest against the proscription of Palestine Action. The actual prosecution of peaceful protesters in the UK threatens our ability to raise our voices for human rights around the world. It is also an infringement on political rights that limits a human rights response in any instance of further infringement.

For the health of our human rights futures (and therefore, our ability to campaign for others) please sign this petition: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/authoritarianism/protect-the-protest/

Although this is not directly related to the Uyghurs as part of the Uyghur Solidarity Month, we did suggest in our last post on this topic an action to speak to a friend or colleague.

• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out
• Uyghurs part of repression of all minorities in China

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Uyghur campaign – day 11

Latest action in relation to the persecution of the Uyghurs

August 2026

Today’s action is a little bit different, as we will focus on issues closer to home rather than exclusively on the rights of the Uyghurs.  We are asking you to sign the Amnesty petition to ‘protect the protest’ – something that we feel is ultimately essential to the future of all human rights campaigning. 

In some of our recent posts, we have started to include issues concerning the UK with successive attempts by governments to clamp down on unwelcome protests. In the UK, new laws are constraining our ability protest peacefully, which is an attack on our political rights. It risks creating a precedent and mark the beginning of more infringements on our ability to campaign on human rights. The UK is not of course in the same league as China where repression and stifling of rights is on a massive scale.

However, governments are dilatory about climate actions, are determined to assist Israel overtly and covertly in their violence, and are happy to support and allow arms sales to a wide variety of obnoxious regimes with poor human rights records. Voluble protests against these actions are unwelcome.

We want to protect our ability to run campaigns such as this one on the Uyghurs. In the end, protecting our political rights means protecting the future work we will do for human rights globally. The current laws that impact our ability to protest peacefully, which infringes not only on basic human rights to assembly, association, and expression (Articles 10 and 11, Human Rights Act), also creates nearly 7,000 climate protesters were arrested in the UK between 2019 and mid-2025.

Since 2021, the government has proposed four different anti-protest laws in four years. Police have arrested 3,300 people for peaceful protest against the proscription of Palestine Action. The actual prosecution of peaceful protesters in the UK threatens our ability to raise our voices for human rights around the world. It is also an infringement on political rights that limits a human rights response in any instance of further infringement.

For the health of our human rights futures (and therefore, our ability to campaign for others) please sign this petition: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/authoritarianism/protect-the-protest/

Although this is not directly related to the Uyghurs as part of the Uyghur Solidarity Month, we did suggest in our last post on this topic an action to speak to a friend or colleague.

• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out
• Uyghurs part of repression of all minorities in China

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Uyghur campaign – day 11

Latest action in relation to the persecution of the Uyghurs

August 2026

Today’s action is a little bit different, as we will focus on issues closer to home rather than exclusively on the rights of the Uyghurs.  We are asking you to sign the Amnesty petition to ‘protect the protest’ – something that we feel is ultimately essential to the future of all human rights campaigning. 

In some of our recent posts, we have started to include issues concerning the UK with successive attempts by governments to clamp down on unwelcome protests. In the UK, new laws are constraining our ability protest peacefully, which is an attack on our political rights. It risks creating a precedent and mark the beginning of more infringements on our ability to campaign on human rights. The UK is not of course in the same league as China where repression and stifling of rights is on a massive scale.

However, governments are dilatory about climate actions, are determined to assist Israel overtly and covertly in their violence, and are happy to support and allow arms sales to a wide variety of obnoxious regimes with poor human rights records. Voluble protests against these actions are unwelcome.

We want to protect our ability to run campaigns such as this one on the Uyghurs. In the end, protecting our political rights means protecting the future work we will do for human rights globally. The current laws that impact our ability to protest peacefully, which infringes not only on basic human rights to assembly, association, and expression (Articles 10 and 11, Human Rights Act), also creates nearly 7,000 climate protesters were arrested in the UK between 2019 and mid-2025.

Since 2021, the government has proposed four different anti-protest laws in four years. Police have arrested 3,300 people for peaceful protest against the proscription of Palestine Action. The actual prosecution of peaceful protesters in the UK threatens our ability to raise our voices for human rights around the world. It is also an infringement on political rights that limits a human rights response in any instance of further infringement.

For the health of our human rights futures (and therefore, our ability to campaign for others) please sign this petition: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/authoritarianism/protect-the-protest/

Although this is not directly related to the Uyghurs as part of the Uyghur Solidarity Month, we did suggest in our last post on this topic an action to speak to a friend or colleague.

• Uyghur campaign – day 11
• Risks of University Partnerships with Arms Firms and Israel
• Obituary: Daphne White
• Uyghurs: getting the word out
• Uyghurs part of repression of all minorities in China

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Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy

Short podcast of our last two posts on this campaign

Pip: August 2026, and a cultural genocide that’s largely dropped out of the news — which is exactly when a local Amnesty group decides to make some noise.

Mara: The Salisbury has been writing about Uyghur Solidarity Month, and that’s the territory we’re covering today — the scale of what’s happening in Xinjiang, and what people in Salisbury can actually do about it.

Pip: Let’s start with the oppression itself, and who’s trying to break through the silence.

Uyghur Solidarity Month: Oppression and the Fight for Awareness

Mara: The framing here is stark: this is described as “the largest campaign of cultural genocide in the modern era,” and Amnesty’s declaration of August as Uyghur Solidarity Month is a direct response to the crisis slipping from public view.

Pip: The post points to one outlet trying to hold that ground — Kashgar Times, founded in April 2025. Here’s how they describe their mission: “At Kashgar Times, our mission is to break through that silence. We aim to bridge the information gap. We provide a platform where Uyghur voices can be heard, and their stories told — free from propaganda.”

Mara: What that means in practice is that independent, on-the-ground reporting from Xinjiang is nearly impossible to obtain. China’s censorship has closed off the region to journalists and foreign observers entirely, so an outlet run by Uyghurs, for a global audience, is filling a gap that mainstream media simply cannot.

Pip: The scale is worth sitting with. Around a million individuals detained. Children separated from parents. Arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, persecution on grounds of religion and ethnicity. And a proposed Chinese embassy in London — potentially the largest in Europe — raising fears about expanded surveillance of dissidents on British soil.

Mara: The second post, “Uyghur solidarity month,” pulls the crisis closer to home in a way that’s hard to dismiss. It includes a draft letter to local newspapers, drawing on findings from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the 2021 Uyghur Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, which concluded the Chinese government had committed genocide.

Pip: And then there’s the wardrobe argument — which is either uncomfortable or very effective, depending on your tolerance for being implicated personally. A quarter of the world’s cotton comes from Xinjiang.

Mara: The post puts it directly: “You will have in your wardrobe, or be wearing, many items made of cotton. It is highly likely that some of them have been made with cotton from this region using virtual slave labour.” The ask is simple — write to your local paper.

Pip: Silence, as the post notes, makes it easier to ignore. And writing a letter is not nothing.

Mara: A genocide that’s fallen out of the news cycle, and a local group working to put it back — that’s the thread running through everything here.

Pip: More to come through the month, apparently. We’ll be watching.

• Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy
• Uyghur solidarity month
• Death penalty debate: Florida
• Uyghur Solidarity Month: A Call to Action
• Good attendance at latest vigil

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Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy

Short podcast of our last two posts on this campaign

Pip: August 2026, and a cultural genocide that’s largely dropped out of the news — which is exactly when a local Amnesty group decides to make some noise.

Mara: The Salisbury has been writing about Uyghur Solidarity Month, and that’s the territory we’re covering today — the scale of what’s happening in Xinjiang, and what people in Salisbury can actually do about it.

Pip: Let’s start with the oppression itself, and who’s trying to break through the silence.

Uyghur Solidarity Month: Oppression and the Fight for Awareness

Mara: The framing here is stark: this is described as “the largest campaign of cultural genocide in the modern era,” and Amnesty’s declaration of August as Uyghur Solidarity Month is a direct response to the crisis slipping from public view.

Pip: The post points to one outlet trying to hold that ground — Kashgar Times, founded in April 2025. Here’s how they describe their mission: “At Kashgar Times, our mission is to break through that silence. We aim to bridge the information gap. We provide a platform where Uyghur voices can be heard, and their stories told — free from propaganda.”

Mara: What that means in practice is that independent, on-the-ground reporting from Xinjiang is nearly impossible to obtain. China’s censorship has closed off the region to journalists and foreign observers entirely, so an outlet run by Uyghurs, for a global audience, is filling a gap that mainstream media simply cannot.

Pip: The scale is worth sitting with. Around a million individuals detained. Children separated from parents. Arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, persecution on grounds of religion and ethnicity. And a proposed Chinese embassy in London — potentially the largest in Europe — raising fears about expanded surveillance of dissidents on British soil.

Mara: The second post, “Uyghur solidarity month,” pulls the crisis closer to home in a way that’s hard to dismiss. It includes a draft letter to local newspapers, drawing on findings from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the 2021 Uyghur Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, which concluded the Chinese government had committed genocide.

Pip: And then there’s the wardrobe argument — which is either uncomfortable or very effective, depending on your tolerance for being implicated personally. A quarter of the world’s cotton comes from Xinjiang.

Mara: The post puts it directly: “You will have in your wardrobe, or be wearing, many items made of cotton. It is highly likely that some of them have been made with cotton from this region using virtual slave labour.” The ask is simple — write to your local paper.

Pip: Silence, as the post notes, makes it easier to ignore. And writing a letter is not nothing.

Mara: A genocide that’s fallen out of the news cycle, and a local group working to put it back — that’s the thread running through everything here.

Pip: More to come through the month, apparently. We’ll be watching.

• Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy
• Uyghur solidarity month
• Death penalty debate: Florida
• Uyghur Solidarity Month: A Call to Action
• Good attendance at latest vigil

Thought of subscribing?

Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy

Short podcast of our last two posts on this campaign

Pip: August 2026, and a cultural genocide that’s largely dropped out of the news — which is exactly when a local Amnesty group decides to make some noise.

Mara: The Salisbury has been writing about Uyghur Solidarity Month, and that’s the territory we’re covering today — the scale of what’s happening in Xinjiang, and what people in Salisbury can actually do about it.

Pip: Let’s start with the oppression itself, and who’s trying to break through the silence.

Uyghur Solidarity Month: Oppression and the Fight for Awareness

Mara: The framing here is stark: this is described as “the largest campaign of cultural genocide in the modern era,” and Amnesty’s declaration of August as Uyghur Solidarity Month is a direct response to the crisis slipping from public view.

Pip: The post points to one outlet trying to hold that ground — Kashgar Times, founded in April 2025. Here’s how they describe their mission: “At Kashgar Times, our mission is to break through that silence. We aim to bridge the information gap. We provide a platform where Uyghur voices can be heard, and their stories told — free from propaganda.”

Mara: What that means in practice is that independent, on-the-ground reporting from Xinjiang is nearly impossible to obtain. China’s censorship has closed off the region to journalists and foreign observers entirely, so an outlet run by Uyghurs, for a global audience, is filling a gap that mainstream media simply cannot.

Pip: The scale is worth sitting with. Around a million individuals detained. Children separated from parents. Arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, persecution on grounds of religion and ethnicity. And a proposed Chinese embassy in London — potentially the largest in Europe — raising fears about expanded surveillance of dissidents on British soil.

Mara: The second post, “Uyghur solidarity month,” pulls the crisis closer to home in a way that’s hard to dismiss. It includes a draft letter to local newspapers, drawing on findings from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the 2021 Uyghur Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, which concluded the Chinese government had committed genocide.

Pip: And then there’s the wardrobe argument — which is either uncomfortable or very effective, depending on your tolerance for being implicated personally. A quarter of the world’s cotton comes from Xinjiang.

Mara: The post puts it directly: “You will have in your wardrobe, or be wearing, many items made of cotton. It is highly likely that some of them have been made with cotton from this region using virtual slave labour.” The ask is simple — write to your local paper.

Pip: Silence, as the post notes, makes it easier to ignore. And writing a letter is not nothing.

Mara: A genocide that’s fallen out of the news cycle, and a local group working to put it back — that’s the thread running through everything here.

Pip: More to come through the month, apparently. We’ll be watching.

• Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy
• Uyghur solidarity month
• Death penalty debate: Florida
• Uyghur Solidarity Month: A Call to Action
• Good attendance at latest vigil

Thought of subscribing?

Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy

Short podcast of our last two posts on this campaign

Pip: August 2026, and a cultural genocide that’s largely dropped out of the news — which is exactly when a local Amnesty group decides to make some noise.

Mara: The Salisbury has been writing about Uyghur Solidarity Month, and that’s the territory we’re covering today — the scale of what’s happening in Xinjiang, and what people in Salisbury can actually do about it.

Pip: Let’s start with the oppression itself, and who’s trying to break through the silence.

Uyghur Solidarity Month: Oppression and the Fight for Awareness

Mara: The framing here is stark: this is described as “the largest campaign of cultural genocide in the modern era,” and Amnesty’s declaration of August as Uyghur Solidarity Month is a direct response to the crisis slipping from public view.

Pip: The post points to one outlet trying to hold that ground — Kashgar Times, founded in April 2025. Here’s how they describe their mission: “At Kashgar Times, our mission is to break through that silence. We aim to bridge the information gap. We provide a platform where Uyghur voices can be heard, and their stories told — free from propaganda.”

Mara: What that means in practice is that independent, on-the-ground reporting from Xinjiang is nearly impossible to obtain. China’s censorship has closed off the region to journalists and foreign observers entirely, so an outlet run by Uyghurs, for a global audience, is filling a gap that mainstream media simply cannot.

Pip: The scale is worth sitting with. Around a million individuals detained. Children separated from parents. Arbitrary detention, torture, forced labour, persecution on grounds of religion and ethnicity. And a proposed Chinese embassy in London — potentially the largest in Europe — raising fears about expanded surveillance of dissidents on British soil.

Mara: The second post, “Uyghur solidarity month,” pulls the crisis closer to home in a way that’s hard to dismiss. It includes a draft letter to local newspapers, drawing on findings from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the 2021 Uyghur Tribunal, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, which concluded the Chinese government had committed genocide.

Pip: And then there’s the wardrobe argument — which is either uncomfortable or very effective, depending on your tolerance for being implicated personally. A quarter of the world’s cotton comes from Xinjiang.

Mara: The post puts it directly: “You will have in your wardrobe, or be wearing, many items made of cotton. It is highly likely that some of them have been made with cotton from this region using virtual slave labour.” The ask is simple — write to your local paper.

Pip: Silence, as the post notes, makes it easier to ignore. And writing a letter is not nothing.

Mara: A genocide that’s fallen out of the news cycle, and a local group working to put it back — that’s the thread running through everything here.

Pip: More to come through the month, apparently. We’ll be watching.

• Podcast Episode: Uyghur Solidarity And Advocacy
• Uyghur solidarity month
• Death penalty debate: Florida
• Uyghur Solidarity Month: A Call to Action
• Good attendance at latest vigil

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A moment that changed me: I found a forbidden novel – it led to a dangerous, lasting love
By Yalkun Uluyol

Growing up in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, romance was frowned upon – as was much of my Uyghur culture. But one day, exploring a strange house, I found a gateway to both worlds

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/05/a-moment-that-changed-me-i-found-a-forbidden-novel-it-led-to-a-dangerous-lasting-love

#Uyghurs #Books #China #Lifeandstyle #Xinjiang #Worldnews #Relationships #Marriage #TheGuardian #YalkunUluyol

A moment that changed me: I found a forbidden novel – it led to a dangerous, lasting love
By Yalkun Uluyol

Growing up in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, romance was frowned upon – as was much of my Uyghur culture. But one day, exploring a strange house, I found a gateway to both worlds

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/05/a-moment-that-changed-me-i-found-a-forbidden-novel-it-led-to-a-dangerous-lasting-love

#Uyghurs #Books #China #Lifeandstyle #Xinjiang #Worldnews #Relationships #Marriage #TheGuardian #YalkunUluyol

A moment that changed me: I found a forbidden novel – it led to a dangerous, lasting love
By Yalkun Uluyol

Growing up in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, romance was frowned upon – as was much of my Uyghur culture. But one day, exploring a strange house, I found a gateway to both worlds

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/05/a-moment-that-changed-me-i-found-a-forbidden-novel-it-led-to-a-dangerous-lasting-love

#Uyghurs #Books #China #Lifeandstyle #Xinjiang #Worldnews #Relationships #Marriage #TheGuardian #YalkunUluyol

He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he's a victim, too. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/30/asia-pacific/politics/china-uyghurs-victim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #uyghurs #indigenouspeople #xinjiang

He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he's a victim, too. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/30/asia-pacific/politics/china-uyghurs-victim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #uyghurs #indigenouspeople #xinjiang

He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he's a victim, too. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/30/asia-pacific/politics/china-uyghurs-victim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #uyghurs #indigenouspeople #xinjiang

He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he's a victim, too. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/30/asia-pacific/politics/china-uyghurs-victim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #uyghurs #indigenouspeople #xinjiang

He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he's a victim, too. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/30/asia-pacific/politics/china-uyghurs-victim/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #uyghurs #indigenouspeople #xinjiang

A majority of members of the #parliament in #Estonia have signed a letter of protest against China's new "law on ethnic unity." The MPs strongly condemned the #law, which was aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in #China, including #Mongols, #Tibetans, and #Uyghurs.

https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-mps-protest-chinas-ethnic-unity-law/

A majority of members of the #parliament in #Estonia have signed a letter of protest against China's new "law on ethnic unity." The MPs strongly condemned the #law, which was aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in #China, including #Mongols, #Tibetans, and #Uyghurs.

https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-mps-protest-chinas-ethnic-unity-law/

A majority of members of the #parliament in #Estonia have signed a letter of protest against China's new "law on ethnic unity." The MPs strongly condemned the #law, which was aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in #China, including #Mongols, #Tibetans, and #Uyghurs.

https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-mps-protest-chinas-ethnic-unity-law/

A majority of members of the #parliament in #Estonia have signed a letter of protest against China's new "law on ethnic unity." The MPs strongly condemned the #law, which was aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in #China, including #Mongols, #Tibetans, and #Uyghurs.

https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-mps-protest-chinas-ethnic-unity-law/

A majority of members of the #parliament in #Estonia have signed a letter of protest against China's new "law on ethnic unity." The MPs strongly condemned the #law, which was aimed at assimilating ethnic minorities in #China, including #Mongols, #Tibetans, and #Uyghurs.

https://viabaltica.fi/estonia-mps-protest-chinas-ethnic-unity-law/

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millions of #uyghurs, #tibetans, #mongolians are oppressed in #china, and #trump chooses to intervene for this one person...

RE: https://mastodon.online/@hkfp/116871150541994967

millions of #uyghurs, #tibetans, #mongolians are oppressed in #china, and #trump chooses to intervene for this one person...

RE: https://mastodon.online/@hkfp/116871150541994967

millions of #uyghurs, #tibetans, #mongolians are oppressed in #china, and #trump chooses to intervene for this one person...

RE: https://mastodon.online/@hkfp/116871150541994967

millions of #uyghurs, #tibetans, #mongolians are oppressed in #china, and #trump chooses to intervene for this one person...