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Research by anthropologist Darren Byler provides a rare look inside the surveillance state China has created to control the Uyghur population of Xinjiang province, where every move is tracked, people are forced to carry cell phones, and “re-education camps” await anyone suspected of trying to break free.
Washington is threatening to use the so-called ‘Magnitsky Act’ to target Chinese officials for sanctions in response to Beijing’s mistreatment of the Uighur Muslim minority in northwestern China.
XINJIANG.GOV, TIANSHAN.NET, XINHUA (China), BBC (UK) Worldcrunch BACHU – Twenty-one people, including police officers and community workers, were killed in violent clashes in the ethnically-divided Kashgar region in the western Chinese Xinjiang Province, reported local officials on Wednesday. The incident occured on Tuesday after three community workers found “suspicious individuals and knives in the home […]