ICIJ’s China Targets investigation is based on interviews with 105 victims of China’s transnational repression in 23 countries, as well as documents from multiple sources
"...the evidence reveals a coordinated and systematic effort by the Chinese government to neutralize dissent in all its forms by individuals the world over."
New report from @CitizenLabCA reveals a targeted malware attack on #Uyghur language software used by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) to spy on diaspora activists. Legitimate open-source tools were hijacked via spearphishing to deliver spyware in a digital transnational repression campaign by state-backed actors.
Read more: https://citizenlab.ca/2025/04/uyghur-language-software-hijacked-to-deliver-malware/
The shutdown of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia will mean US policy makers are less well informed about what is happening in China
"VOA and RFA (especially its Uyghur and Tibetan services) have been a vital source of information for America’s own decision-makers about what is happening on the ground in some of the world’s most authoritarian and closed societies."
NGOs supporting human rights in China have signed an open letter in support of Radio Free Asia
"RFA serves as a critical source of information on the situation in the PRC and is an effective counter to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression and malign influence in the Indo-Pacific region."
https://www.nchrd.org/2025/04/joint-statement-in-support-of-radio-free-asia/
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has warned about variants of BADBAZAAR and MOONSHINE malware on mobile phones targeting Taiwanese, Tibetan and Uyghur activists
In February, we once again protested in the dark outside the Chinese embassy in #WashingtonDC, calling upon the Chinese government to end its #genocide of the #Uyghur people of #EastTurkistan (a.k.a. #Xinjiang).
#GeoPol #China #Thailand #US #HumanRights #Uyghurs
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*"#Thai authorities deported a group of 40 #Uyghur men to #China last month"..."the hell those 40 #Uyghurs will face back in #Xinjiang"*
The last time #Bangkok did this was in 2015.
It is possible to see this as a precursor to the #US' waning geopolitical influence, as the disastrous #Trumpean #Foreign, #Economic, and #Security policies of the #AmericaFirst.
The...
https://www.dw.com/en/thailands-uyghur-deportations-balancing-china-and-the-west/a-72028596
@HistoPol @ErikJonker The hypocrisy here is pretty interesting. Are the #Uyghur people and the abuse by #CCPChina so easily overlooked?
A third Uyghur we read about at our protest was Kamile Wayit, who last year became one of 40 individuals listed by the European Parliament as unjustly imprisoned in China. Arrested when she was a 19-year-old student studying preschool education, she was sentenced for "advocating extremism" after sharing a video of a protest. The protest was held because 10 people had been killed by a fire in a locked Urumqi apartment building.
The recent deportation of 40 Uyghur refugees from Thailand to China is similar to the deportations in 2015. It shows that no matter who is in power in Thailand, they are eager to seek favours from Beijing
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/08/nx-s1-5321404/opinion-thailand-china-uyghurs
In an Far Right World, refugees are lower than vermin, we're all to stay in our little pens and await instruction.
What pressure was put on Thailand? How much of a fight did they put up?
#Thailand condemned for ‘shameful’ mass deportation of #Uyghur refugees to #China - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/03/thailand-condemned-for-shameful-mass-deportation-of-uyghur-refugees-to-china "Amid claims that deportees may face torture, family of one man say he was forcibly repatriated and will never see his children again" #uyghurgenocide
"The Thai government should have protected these men, but instead it has wilfully exposed them to these grave risks. In doing so it has ignored pleas from Amnesty International and United Nations experts who urged it not to violate the internationally and domestically recognized principle of non-refoulement. And this just as Thailand has been elected to the UN Human Rights Council." - Sarah Brooks, Amnesty International
The US Department of State has issued a statement strongly condemning Thailand’s forced return of at least 40 Uyghurs to China
https://www.state.gov/on-thailands-forced-return-of-uyghurs-to-china/
40 Uyghurs who have been detained in Bangkok for a decade were deported to China. The deportations were shrouded in secrecy and it is the first time Thailand has deported Uyghurs since 2015
I have stronger connections with the small #Uyghur, #Tibetan and #Palestinian diasporas in Japan than than I do with fellow Americans...
Imagine having your home address splattered all over the internet. Meryem, an activist living in the US, knows exactly what that’s like. She faces relentless online harassment from Chinese state-backed trolls as she fights for #Uyghur rights. Her fight is made even harder because she is a woman. Learn about the price she’s paid: https://citizenlab.ca/case-studies/meryem-a-human-rights-activist-from-xinjiang-china/ #digitaltransnationalrepression