Dutch Ambassador for Human Rights and former Ambassador to China:

The Intl Day in Support of Victims of Torture has passed, but #XieYang remains behind bars—3.5 years without trial. He defended pro-democracy protesters & activists until #ChinaGov arrested him for it--then tortured him in detention. 👇

Research by @peterirwin.bsky.social @henrykszad.bsky.social + Ben Carrdus from April demonstrated the dramatic 📈 increase in international hotel chains in the Uyghur region. IHG is operating—and dramatically expanding—its business amidst atrocities. uhrp.org/report/it-do...

The 'DeepChina' Substack account — which presents itself as “an elite academic initiative” — is in fact controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department. Its goal is to spread propaganda & conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work.

Unity Camps, Great Country Borderlands & Pomegranate Seed Families: How the CCP’s youth work promotes Xi’s assimilationist agenda, settler colonialism, and seeks to transform children into ‘little envoys’, ‘propagandists’ and ‘demonstrators’ of CCP-led ‘ethnic unity’.

These re-surfaced videos are raising concerns about Harvard speaker Jiang "Luanna" Yurong during a protest last year against Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng.

27 May 14:00 - 15:30 Beyond #Xinjiang Join our online seminar exploring how #China’s securitization policies impact #Muslim minorities 🕌 — with a focus on #Uyghur and #Hui communities: www.remote-xuar.com/events/beyon...

#China's state-led #environmentalism 🌿 is reshaping life on its western frontiers — but often at the expense of #ethnic minority herders. Join our Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 9 May to learn how these environmental policies have been negotiated on the ground: www.remote-xuar.com/events/lives... 🐫

Xi commended volunteers at a Xinjiang boarding school in a letter marking Youth Day on May 4: 'more young people have chosen to serve as volunteers in the country's western regions and rural areas over the years, demonstrating their spirit of dedication and sense of responsibility.'

Half of RFA’s language services will no longer produce new content: RFA Tibetan, Burmese, Uyghur, and Lao. Also, ceasing operations will be Asia Fact Check Lab, a special unit focused on picking apart false narratives seeded by the Chinese Communist Party. www.rfa.org/english/abou...

"Tibetans have not witnessed such strong support for Tibet in a European parliament in many years, except in the Czech Republic."

"During at least seven of Xi’s 31 international trips between 2019 and 2024, local law enforcement infringed on dozens of protesters’ rights in order to shield the Chinese president from dissent, detaining or arresting activists, often for spurious reasons."

The DeepChina Substack account is controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department, and was created specifically to spread propaganda and conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work. buttondown.com/collectivest...

Indeed, refuting Taiwan's deep #Austronesian connection is a high priority for the CCP, as noted in a recent report highlighting the United Front propaganda work by the party-sponsored #Substack, DeepChina, which has been attempting to masquerade as neutral academia. buttondown.com/collectivest...

“In 2024, 33 Chinese NGOs showed up about 300 times on the lists of speakers at [#UN] Human Rights Council sessions. There were only three of them in 2018. None criticized #China [govt], #ICIJ’s review of their statements found.” www.icij.org/investigatio...

See recent @collectivestudy.bsky.social pieces on various Party efforts to promote 'Community for the Chinese Nation' (中華民族共同體) domestically and abroad: 🟨 buttondown.com/collectivest... 🟨 buttondown.com/collectivest...

The 'DeepChina' Substack account — which presents itself as “an elite academic initiative” — is in fact controlled and directed by the United Front Work Department. Its goal is to spread propaganda & conduct “opinion and cognitive warfare” in support of the CCP’s ethnic affairs work.

'One of the two detained reporters taken away is the president of the Macau Journalists Association, the press union said on Friday.'

'He was arrested from his hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on 25th March. On 3rd April his death was announced publicly by his monastery.'

I was at HKU yesterday and this is what the “democracy wall” looks like now. It has the same name. And cameras though. But nothing else

All of the English translations of Tomomi Shimizu's manga about the suppression of Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities by the CCP in China can be read online here: note.com/tomomishimiz...

The other day, I had to inform an Uyghur person outside China that their relative passed away in detention in 2017-2018 (this information was somewhere in the ~50000 internal records we have access to). It's 2025, and they didn't know.

This -- authorities questioning children alone at school -- was a common strategy used by Chinese officials to find Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims to put in concentration camps. The U.S. State Dept. called China's persecution of Uyghurs a genocide. www.thebeliever.net/weather-repo...

Collective Study is now available on Medium

I found this video so deeply moving - it is about the Minyak language in eastern Tibet, and one speaker's journey to losing hope that there is any chance for the language to survive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_-Z...

Relay stations owned or leased by the US government are no longer carrying Radio Free Asia broadcasts with transmissions to China and Tibet totally gone.

Unity Camps, Great Country Borderlands & Pomegranate Seed Families: How the CCP’s youth work promotes Xi’s assimilationist agenda, settler colonialism, and seeks to transform children into ‘little envoys’, ‘propagandists’ and ‘demonstrators’ of CCP-led ‘ethnic unity’.

The State Council Information Office published a white paper titled 'The Development and Progress of the Human Rights Cause in Tibet in the New Era' (新时代西藏人权事业的发展与进步) on Friday 28 March. Here is the full text of the propaganda document:

#Thai officials secretly planned to deport #Uyghurs while making repeated public denials apnews.com/article/thai...

Uyghur Organizations Urge the Trump Administration to Resume RFA Uyghur Funding. www.uyghurcongress.org/en/uyghur-or...

Bhutan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade used the CCP-favoured term 'Xizang' instead of Tibet in an official press release this week, @freetibet.org noted. www.mfa.gov.bt/press-releas...

Hong Kong has fallen to its lowest-ever position on the World Happiness Report, falling down the index for the fifth consecutive year. hongkongfp.com/2025/03/21/h... The city dropped from 86th last year to 88th, sitting between Albania and Armenia. China ranked 68th, Taiwan 27th and Singapore 34th.

Thailand's decision to send 40 #Uyghurs back to China was based on "correctness, #Thai law, and important human rights principles," the country's justice minister said.

Newly elected IOC president Kirsty Coventry played a role in the organisation's botched handling of the #PengShuai scandal. Now she has a chance to put things right. 🧵

Thai Deputy PM denies home visits to Uyghurs in Xinjiang were staged and says the people they visited were not Hollywood actors who could cry on command, or that blurred faces meant they were fake stand-ins for the forced returnees.

Thai Deputy PM participated in a staged visit on Thursday to one of the 40 Uyghurs Thailand forcibly sent back to China.

Thai News Agency's recap of what the Thai delegation did in Xinjiang on Wednesday. On Thursday they are expected to continue guided visits, including to a school, before returning to Thailand in the evening.

“Everything is normal, don’t worry,” the Uyghur man was quoted as telling Thailand's Deputy PM and Defence Minister. A Uyghur man who Thailand forcibly returned to China in 2015 was reportedly among a group of 6 who China organised to have a video call with a Thai delegation on Wednesday evening.

Thai media quotes one of the returned Uyghurs: "I hope my Thai friends will respect my freedom. I can take photos, do interviews, and record videos, but please cover (i.e. blur/pixellate) my face. I don’t want my life and future to be disturbed by others.” Typical PRC media management script

Thai Justice Minister on PRC-guided visits to returned Uyghurs, "confident that, based on body language, facial expressions, and eyes, this government's decision is correct according to international principles, based on law and ethics"

Thai media adds that throughout the PRC guided visit, the Uyghur families, whose faces were all blurred or pixellated, "had bright smiles on their faces" and returnees were "happy".