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China will introduce new regulations on February 1 on how Islam and other religions can be practiced in its western Xinjiang Province, requiring mosques and ceremonies to reflect "Chinese characteristics" as part of Beijing's campaign to "sinicize Islam."
Kazakhs who have been protesting the disappearance of their relatives within Xinjiang's camp system have been threatened and arrested ahead of Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to their country.
Kazakh Activism Against China s Internment Camps Is Broken, But Not Dead
April 04, 2021 12:12 GMT
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When 67-year-old pensioner Qalida Akytkhan decided to join a small protest outside the Chinese Consulate in Almaty, it was three years after three of her sons were detained at a so-called reeducation camp in China s northwestern Xinjiang region.
Akytkhan has since become a mainstay at the pickets that, despite police intimidation, have endured outside the consulate since early February. She has joined dozens of other protesters who say their relatives are missing, jailed, or trapped in China s ongoing crackdown.
United Nations human rights officials estimate that a million or more Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities are detained at camps in a vast Chinese internment system.
Activist Defending Ethnic Kazakhs In China Explains Why He Had To Flee Kazakhstan
January 18, 2021 20:05 GMT
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Tens of thousands of ethnic Kazakhs in China s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have been sent to reeducation camps along with hundreds of thousands of others from that western province after being rounded up by China because they are Muslims.
Serikzhan Bilash is one of the people who helped bring this great injustice to light by exposing the suffering of ethnic Kazakhs at the camps in Xinjiang.
An ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang who moved to neighboring Kazakhstan in 2000, Bilash received Kazakh citizenship in 2011 under the oralman program, which was designed in 1991 to entice ethnic Kazakhs abroad to resettle in sparsely inhabited Kazakhstan.