{"id":74718,"date":"2021-04-20T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=74718"},"modified":"2021-05-06T16:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:12:18","slug":"human-rights-watch-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/74718-human-rights-watch-crimes-against-humanity-in-xinjiang\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Watch: Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f2\u06f0_\u06f0\u06f6-\u06f1\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-75105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f2\u06f0_\u06f0\u06f6-\u06f1\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f2\u06f0_\u06f0\u06f6-\u06f1\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f2\u06f0_\u06f0\u06f6-\u06f1\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f2\u06f0_\u06f0\u06f6-\u06f1\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f0\u06f4-\u06f2\u06f0_\u06f0\u06f6-\u06f1\u06f4-\u06f0\u06f4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.<br>The Chinese leadership is responsible for widespread and systematic policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offenses. Coordinated international action is needed to sanction those responsible, advance accountability, and press the Chinese government to reverse course.<br>The 53-page report, \u201c\u2018Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots\u2019: China\u2019s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims,\u201d authored with assistance from Stanford Law School\u2019s Human Rights &amp; Conflict Resolution Clinic, draws on newly available information from Chinese government documents, human rights groups, the media, and scholars to assess Chinese government actions in Xinjiang within the international legal framework.<br>The report identified a range of abuses against Turkic Muslims that amount to offenses committed as part of a widespread and systematic attack directed against a population: mass arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, mass surveillance, cultural and religious erasure, separation of families, forced returns to China, forced labor, and sexual violence and violations of reproductive rights.<br>\u201cChinese authorities have systematically persecuted Turkic Muslims \u2013 their lives, their religion, their culture,\u201d said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cBeijing has said it\u2019s providing \u2018vocational training\u2019 and \u2018deradicalization,\u2019 but that rhetoric can\u2019t obscure a grim reality of crimes against humanity.\u201d<br>Crimes against humanity are considered among the gravest human rights abuses under international law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.The Chinese leadership is responsible for widespread and systematic policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offenses. 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