Beijing’s crackdown in Hong Kong is just one of a litany of transgressions
But while Hong Kong has garnered the most attention in the West, it is hardly the sole, or even the worst, of the Chinese government’s systemic violations of elemental human rights. These are among other recent developments:from the Jamestown Foundation has exposed chilling details of official measures to shrink the Uighur population, including sterilisation and forced abortions.
US customs and border protection officials in New York seized a large shipment of weaves and other beauty products that officials suspect were made out of human hair from people locked inside the Xinjiang prison system. More than 50 independent UN experts have called for a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to establish an independent mechanism to monitor the human rights situation in China.that China’s huge surveillance efforts in Xinjiang, which have expanded to include measures such as collecting blood samples, voice prints, facial scans and other personal data, began as early as 2013 with a hacking campaign that planted malware into the cellphones of Uighurs and Tibetans around the world.
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