"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.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china

[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

@EUCommission Bismark estaria orgulhoso da "RealPolitik" e do ignorar dos direitos humanos em prole da geopolitica. Bravo!👏
#Uighurs #humanrights #HongKong

World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.

Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.

Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.

It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.

There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.

Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.

“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“
— Nelson Mandela

#Hongkong #Tibet #Uighurs #ccp #china #EuropeanDefence #AxisOfDespots

#Uighurs are fighting with #HTS? Very disappointing
https://anfenglish.com/news/knk-calls-on-everyone-to-defend-rojava-76613 #Syria #Assad #Aleppo #Rojava

Muslims as a target of genocide is weird.

When it happens near Israel, things are fine and dandy, and it might not even really be happening despite the definite 24/7 footage from the area. Who knows what is happening?!

But when it allegedly happens in China with flakier evidence and questionable sources, it is verifiably the worst atrocity to ever happen and can be condemned with the power of a thousand suns.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #China #Uighurs #Muslim #Islam #Genocide #Apartheid

West blasts China on rights, China responds: What about Gaza? https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/west-blasts-china-on-rights-china-responds-what-about-gaza/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #Gazawar #humanrights #Uighurs #UnitedNations

@noelreports in the logic of #ruzzia undertaking a genocide against #ukraine this makes fully sense. Like abducting and "reeducating" children and grown-ups.
As #prc is doing with the #uighurs.
Still, I really can not get my head around this. How you can assume yourself to be the #masterrace and it is your "holy right" to do so.
Not during the crusades, not in any colony, not in any of the americas, africa or anywhere else.

This is disgusting!

I hoped humanity was past that!

Since it hardly makes any news:
Stop the ongoing genocide of #uighurs in China!
I don't see Israel sterilize Palestinian women by force, not to mention brutalize them like the #Hamas.
Hypocrites everywhere.

Stop crimes against human rights, no matter where.

@harmonicarichard

I agree with all you've said.
However, #TikTok indoctrinates, too.
The #CCP is world-class in controlling the narrative on the internet, which OFC they do in the #PRC with the same app. #TikTok is pushing rightwing propaganda, just like the #DeadBirdSite: https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-recommendations-far-right-wing , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-5110-9_8.

And OFC, they control everything on it regarding #China. I'm positive that a #Short reporting on the plight of the #Uighurs would not be online for > 1 hour.

@VeroniqueB99

A moving and concerning article about the first #Uyghur woman to receive a doctorate who disappeared in #China.

After the pandemic, #Ukraine #Gaza and the #IranProtests , I fear we all lost sight of the #uighurs.
This is a really good introduction to the whole region as well as a portrait of a remarkable woman.

What became of Rahile Dawut? - https://on.ft.com/49SUd6n via @FT

Eyeing China, EU parliament to back ban on forced labour https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/eyeing-china-eu-parliament-to-back-ban-on-forced-labour/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #EuropeanParliament #forcedlabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang

Russia and China trade new copper disguised as scrap to skirt taxes, sanctions https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/russia-and-china-trade-new-copper-disguised-as-scrap-to-skirt-taxes-sanctions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #copper #Russia #Sanctions #Uighurs

#Uighurs imprisoned for "reading the koran" age six decades ago #China #genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/01/elderly-uyghur-women-imprisoned-in-china-for-decades-old-religious-crimes-leaked-files-reveal

☝️ The *victims* of the regime might be forgiven (option not available inside the empire) if they fail to appreciate the scattered unofficial nostalgia for a leading supporting cadre who served as the Party's 'premier' for a decade while, well, 'stuff' kept happening to them.

Maybe, just maybe comrade Li would have been less extreme as the supreme leader, but isn't that entire point moot since all he really ended up *doing* was rubberstamping the #XiJinping's policies we've all come to love and appreciate?

The #PRC/#CCP stopped "biding time" a decade ago and comrade Li was right in the middle of it as supreme leader's number 2.

#LiKeqiang #hagiography #China #dictatorship #Hongkong #Tibet #EastTurkistan #Uighurs #SouthMongolia #SCS #9dashline #militaryexpansionism #authaxis
@LetaHong @liyuan6

“Rahile's story cuts deep with the vindictiveness with which Beijing has erased Uyghur culture. Her only crime was to be an anthropologist. When authorities detained Rahile, they also sent bulldozers to demolish the 1000-year old historical town she spent her life studying. ”

https://nitter.net/Nrg8000/status/1704993872710144174
#CCP #china #genocide #humanrights #Uighurs #EastTurkistan #NathanRuser
@hkdc_us_mirror

☝️ #Callamard & friends' callous #whataboutism and wilful misrepresentation of reality wrt. #russia's openly genocidal invasion of #Ukraine may sadly have reduced #AmnestyInternational's standing in the eyes of many #humanrights campaigners and supporters.

#Uighurs suffering #genocide under #lebensraum #colonialism of russia's 'no limits' ally #China deserve the support of all peoples lucky enough not to face state-planned eradication.

Perhaps Amnesty ought to reconsider their leadership representation to restore much needed credibility.

#CCP #PRC so-called #Xinjiang #EastTurkistan #AtlanticCouncil
@JanKooy

The use of forced labor in China and products that violate U.S. labor laws in electric vehicles, examined here by the Washington Post.
#Tesla #ElectricVehicles #ev #china #uighurs #cars

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2023/electric-vehicles-forced-labor-china/

@XinjiangNews Welcome ☭🇨🇳 to the free and open #Fediverse, and congratulations on your access outside the #GreatFireWall of #China.

#censorship #reciprocity #genocide #CCP #propaganda #tankie #tankienetwork #GFW "#xinjiang" #EastTurkistan #Uighurs

One minor thing that bothered me was that the otherwise very expansive piece on the #CCP #dictatorship didn't include even a single passing mention of #Tibetans, #Uighurs or #SouthMongolians facing #genocide in "Xi Jinping's China". I'd say those present a rather notable ethical dilemma for academic PRC engagers right there, but what do I know... 🤷🏻‍♂️

(the only references to so-called ethnic minorities were: “70 cases of dissent by Tibetans and Mongolians.” and “ ...the anti-foreign protests surrounding reports on the uprising in Tibetan China in the Western press”)

In a way that is quite enlightening of the fact that sinologists are practically by definition preoccupied with the already-siniziced 'Han' Chinese subjects while their colonial victims aren't considered actually Chinese(!). Ordinarily the CCP would be foaming at the mouth at such 'distortion of historical facts', but, with irony sometimes self-immolating right on cue, the Party seems quite at peace with the lack of spotlight on its #lebensraum activities...

One might also add that the Chinese peoples (plural!) are facing their own potentially irreversible cultural genocide in the form of CCP's thirdreich-esque "One Language" drive (see: ein volk ein reich ein führer) where the party-neutered and ideogram-simplified version of Pekingese shall replace *all* of the native languages across the empire. Only a century ago all 'regions' in the empire had their own languages (naturally) and only those with special needs would acquire 'mandarin' from, well, some mandarin...

They are *not* dialects of some mythical 'chinese' any more than the variety of Indo-European languages would be mere dialects of some mythical 'european', or god forbid 'aryan' uber tongue.

#prc #china #chinese #pekingese #putonghua #sinology #oldchinahand #colonialism #imperialism

@AgreeableLandscape Ah, a switcheroo.

In your deleted first rant you were railing against the 'communists' who, according to you, deprived your family of everything nice.

Quick intro apparently needed: #CCP after 1970s is 'communist' in name only. After that murderous ship sailed the regime quickly switched to a hybrid #dictatorship model inspired by no other than #nazi #germany. It's now an #ethnonationalist dictatorship.

Creating 1800s era #Hongkong strawman to justify its repression of #Hongkongers for such a regime is a curious choice, for a #Canadian.

NB. #tankies post 1980s aren't cheering for the return of lenin's 'economics'; they're cheering for any repressive despot that aims to dispose of liberal democracy. Like #fascists. If it walks like a duck...

And if Hongkongers are, in your opinion, fair game for CCP's forced homogenization program (despite the treaty they signed in 1984 promising to respect Hongkongers' autonomy and civil rights), I'm sure you're pleased to hear that #Tibetans, #Uighurs and #Mongols have also been receiving that 'final solution' treatment. Right? And #Taiwan/#Formosa soon?

#Canada #china #imperialism #genocide