Geneva: Uyghur leader exposes China’s forced labour and surveillance abuses

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Geneva [Switzerland], July 3 (ANI): Dolkun Isa, former president of the World Uyghur Congress and a leading Uyghur rights advocate, has raised alarm over the ongoing persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China’s northwest Xinjiang region, which many Uyghurs refer to as East Turkestan.  In a recent video message released from Geneva, where the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council is currently underway, Isa described the situation as "dire," with widespread human rights violations continuing under the pretext of state security and development. Isa criticised Beijing's ongoing efforts to downplay or deny these abuses through orchestrated media tours designed to mislead the international community.

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00:00Well, the situation of Uyghur in Turkistan is still dire.

00:04Chinese government is a so-called re-education camp,

00:07but actually it is not a re-education camp.

00:09It is a concentration camp.

00:11Uyghurs today, all Uyghurs are monitored by the Chinese government.

00:14Even the Chinese government developed a new app,

00:17and firstly to download your smartphone,

00:19it means they track your every activities.

00:30Well, the situation of Uyghur in Turkistan is still dire.

00:35Still, a million people are suffering in the concentration camps.

00:39Still, Uyghur first labor is the issue.

00:43And there still is a million Uyghur children,

00:45one million Uyghur children separate from family.

00:48First labor and first separation still is the case in Turkistan.

00:54But if you compare the last couple of years,

00:57Chinese government now is organized a propaganda tour,

01:01brings some journalists, particularly from the global source,

01:05and even some Western countries,

01:07invites them to just show them

01:10they use this delegation of the propaganda tool,

01:13then trying to whitewash them on the ongoing genocide in Turkistan for the Uyghurs.

01:18The Chinese government is a so-called re-education camp,

01:22but actually it is not a re-education camp.

01:24It is a concentration camp, you know.

01:26So it is the severland technology used,

01:28and the voice recognition, face recognition,

01:30all technology testing to the Uyghur first Chinese government

01:34now use this technology to other parts of China and Hong Kong,

01:38even north territory inside China,

01:41even use this technology to other neighboring countries,

01:45export its authoritarian regime and technology to other nations

01:50and control other people.

01:52So it is mean Chinese government now continually

01:55and trying to show it is rule to the model to the authoritarian regime

02:02and the lead is authoritarian regime

02:04and the lead for the authoritarian regime.

02:07Yes.

02:08The severland technology, of course,

02:10and they bring a lot of problem in convenience to the Uyghurs.

02:13Today, all Uyghur is monitoring by the Chinese government.

02:16Even Chinese government developed a new app.

02:19And firstly, to download your smartphone,

02:21it is meant to track your every activities,

02:24agri-activities.

02:25So, as I said,

02:26not only Chinese government's severland technology is a pressure

02:31to the Uyghur people or other parts of China.

02:34And also, this severland technology export to the outside Chinese territory,

02:40trying to help authoritarian regime to even own people,

02:44own citizens to under pressure.

02:47And the Chinese government used this technology

02:49and expanded this transnational repression beyond its borders.

02:54Here, we have been

03:14with the law and the wise performers.

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