China: Travel for Uyghurs Heavily Restricted
www.hrw.org
The Chinese government is maintaining severe restrictions, conditions, and controls on Uyghurs who seek to travel abroad in violation of their internationally protected right to leave the country.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/1873878

The Chinese government is maintaining severe restrictions, conditions, and controls on Uyghurs who seek to travel abroad in violation of their internationally protected right to leave the country, Human Right Watch said today. The government has permitted Uyghurs in the diaspora to make restricted visits to Xinjiang, but with the apparent aim of presenting a public image of normalcy in the region.

Since the start of the Chinese government’s abusive Strike Hard Campaign in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in 2016, Chinese authorities have arbitrarily confiscated passports of Uyghurs in the region and imprisoned Uyghurs for contacting people abroad. While the authorities are now allowing some Uyghurs to apply for or are returning passports for travel internationally, they exert tight control over those who travel.

“The modest thaw in China’s travel restrictions has allowed some Uyghurs to briefly reunite with loved ones abroad after having no news for years, but the Chinese government’s travel restrictions are still used to oppress Uyghurs in Xinjiang and in the diaspora,” said Yalkun Uluyol, China researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The Chinese government continues to deny Uyghurs their right to leave the country, restrict their speech and associations when abroad, and punish them for having foreign ties.”

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  • Jin008@lemmygrad.ml
    93·
    2 days ago

    This stuff is obviously bullshit, and funded by the west. Decrying China for being anti-muslim and putting people into “concentration camps”, while simultaneously supporting the illegal settler colonial operation in Palestine

    • celeste@kbin.earth
      32·
      1 day ago

      Are you denying these restrictions exist entirely? I agree with you that it sucks that we’re only hearing about it as a distraction from atrocities our own governments are committing, but do you think it’s not happening at all?

      • Jin008@lemmygrad.ml
        21·
        20 hours ago

        Yea, I am. There used to be more controls about this stuff, but that was because China literally had lots of bombings from these Islamic fundamentalist groups. You can’t expect them to just let this stuff go and not have anything done.

        That is not to say they could have done better and I’m not critical, but China has taken the best approach to this (which the Islamic Cooperation Community supported) which is re-education and re-integration with society.

        They just continue to harp on these points with anecdotal evidence and no concrete sources. It is bullshit.