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Close ‘re-education camps’: protect Uyghurs from COVID-19
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Hi Friends,
My mother in law…cannot stop crying about all her children who have been locked up in the camps…There is no one to take care of her and she has been left alone… suffering from hunger and pain.
An Australian Uyghur, whose family are in XUAR
Over one million people have been placed into ‘re-education’ camps in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, targeted because of their ethnicity and religion (they’re predominantly Uyghur Muslims). Uyghur families are torn apart, as parents are sent to the camps and children are taken away to state orphanages.
Conditions inside the camp are dangerously unsanitary and overcrowded. This human rights crisis could now turn into a deadly outbreak on a massive scale.
Stand with the Uyghur people
Having a religious book in your home, gathering with others to worship, or simply having relatives abroad… These are all freedoms we take for granted. And yet in the Uyghur region, these are all considered reasons to place you in a ‘re-education camp’.
We’ve heard so many reports of maltreatment and torture inside the camps. But since the coronavirus outbreak, these people are in even graver danger, particularly with many elderly men and women being detained.
Dave
Head of Campaigns
PS. Change comes by applying pressure in many ways. Look out for more actions coming later this year as we continue our focus on this crisis.
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