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Beijing [China]Jan. 25 (ANI): A number of Uyghur camps in China’s Xinjiang region have been converted into official prisons, with detainees serving long prison sentences, Foreign Affairs magazine reported.
Many detainees have been transferred from the camps to factories in Xinjiang or elsewhere in the country, according to the foreign ministry. Some Uighur families abroad reported that their relatives had returned home but remained under house arrest.
Under the guise of an anti-poverty campaign, Beijing has been forcing tens of thousands of rural Uyghurs out of their villages and into factories.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) criticized and restricted the use of the Uyghur language, banned Islamic practices; razed mosques, shrines, and cemeteries; rewritten history, denying the long history of Uyghur culture and its uniqueness from Chinese culture; and removed it from textbooks Aboriginal literature.
According to Foreign Affairs, the control infrastructure, intrusive policing, military patrols and checkpoints that made southern Xinjiang look like a war zone a few years ago are less obvious now. But that’s because digital surveillance systems based on cellphones, facial recognition, biometric databases, QR codes and other tools to identify and geolocate populations have proven equally effective at monitoring and controlling local populations.
Jamal, a Uyghur man, said in a recent interview with Voice of America (VOA), a broadcast network in Washington, D.C., that China’s policy on passports from Xinjiang is to let no one through the border and keep everyone in the region intact, Switzerland — Geneva-based daily report.
In an interview, Jamal made it clear that China will not issue new passports to Uyghurs. Uighurs do not speak to the media even after leaving China, he said, for fear of reprisals from Chinese authorities.
According to Jamal, Chinese authorities were forced to return his passport because his wife is a foreigner.
He said any Uyghur passport holder would need to be able to produce consent documents from provincial authorities at any customs office in China.
“If a Uyghur has a valid Chinese passport and a visa to a certain country, but does not have a government permit document, customs will not let them cross the border,” he told VOA, according to the Geneva Journal.
After presenting a Chinese ID card, passport and consent form to customs officials, a Uyghur will be taken to a place specially designated for Uyghurs. His/her documents are then authenticated by police authorities, he said. (Arnie)
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