ps. @timeshighered.bsky.social raises the red flag-but only for the UK: "foreign government interference on UK campuses" www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie... But China silencing us by weaponizing their students, is a live threat against the whole world, all our universities, not just UK!

Please everyone, re-read all of Laura Murphy's reports on the current slavery in China in their Uyghur genocide. How precious they are! Sheffield Hallam U actually DELETED her page at Forced Labour Lab, at the Helena Kennedy Centre, SHU! But some are still here: www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our... 4/5

This is a huge scandal -- a warning to all the world's academia, about China's brazen intimidation and shameless weaponizing of their own students in order to silence the BEST RESEARCH in our free universities. www.theguardian.com/education/20... 3/x

China's Embassy in the UK openly admitting their students are now their WEAPONS: "over 200,000 Chinese students in the UK.. China the largest source of international students in the UK," adding "educational cooperation has become a driving force in bilateral ties".. yeah, and not just in the UK. 2/x

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research www.bbc.com/news/article... Shame on SHU for caving to Chinese intimidation. Even if they backed off when they were duly warned by the UK govt. But how many such horror cases of selfcensorship by universities go undetected, out of fear?

Nader Hashemi and James A. Millward. 2024. ‘Lessons On Genocide From Xinjiang And Gaza’. Dawn. February 23.

Rachel Harris. 2020. ‘Islamophobia, the Global War on Terror, and China’s policies in Xinjiang’. Society and Space. December 7.

Joanne Smith Finley. 2019. ‘The Wang Lixiong Prophecy: “Palestinization” in Xinjiang and the Consequences of Chinese State Securitization of Religion’. Central Asian Survey 38 (1): 81–101. doi:10.1080/02634937.2018.1534802

Daniel James Schuster. 2017. Resisting under Occupation: A Palestinian–Uyghur Comparison. Hamburg: Anchor Academic Publishing.

Sean R. Roberts 2018. ‘The Biopolitics of China’s “War on Terror” and the Exclusion of the Uyghurs’. Critical Asian Studies 50 (2): 232–58. doi:10.1080/14672715.2018.1454111.

Nitasha Kaur. 2020. ‘China : Xinjiang :: India : Kashmir’. Made in China Journal 5 (2): 62–71. doi:10.22459/mic.05.02.2020.05.

Darren Byler and Karissa Ketter. 2024. ‘On the Travel of State Crimes by Algorithm: Chinese Camera Systems in Israel’. Made in China Journal 9(1): 18–21. doi:10.22459/MIC.09.01.2024.02.

For those considering a facetious ’what about the Uyghurs’ argument against people expressing care for the desperate fate of the Palestinians, I refer to my extensive bibliography of sources that make clear many true Xinjiang experts have seen linkages from the very start.

PLEASE SIGN. On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues at Newcastle University were summoned at short notice to meetings with Uni Exec Board, where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

Absolutely sickening. Full solidarity with Newcastle academics.

BUSTED. #PRC spying on #Uyghurs in #Turkiye in aggressive act of #TransnationalRepression. The cell's leader, a Chinese citizen identified by the initials ZL, allegedly arrived in Turkey five years ago to establish the groundwork for the intelligence operation. www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-...

PLEASE SIGN. On Thursday 8th May 2025, 153 academic colleagues at Newcastle University were summoned at short notice to meetings with Uni Exec Board, where they were told they have been placed in ‘redundancy pools’ with 38 of them to be laid off. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...

A win (for now) but it's unlikely this struggle for our university is over

The workers united will never be defeated! Our strike action finishes at Sheffield after membership of our UCU branch @sheffielducu.bsky.social accept offer from management for no compulsory redundancies as a result of organisational restructures this year (and no pay deductions to be taken!)

Een vote amongst staff shows trust in the current leadership is incredible low.

Sign the petition to #FundHENow 👇 stopthecutspetition.org.uk

Trying to open a new campus while cutting jobs. Not a good look. Our members should not lose their livelihoods because of management can't handle the finances. 14 days of strike action started today at @newcastleucu.bsky.social 👇 With hundreds of jobs at risk we must #STOPtheCUTS.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

UNESCO @unesconow.bsky.social promotes a scheme duping foreigners into puppets of the Chinese regime www.unesco.org/en/fellowshi... ..while China's massive destruction of Uyghur heritage continues. UNESCO's brazen complicity drags shame over the UN. @aazoulay.bsky.social @unescochairlnu.bsky.social

Just to add some more interesting numbers from the annual reports...

"The Thai government's handling of Uyghurs has become a black stain on the nation's human rights record." Critical Bangkok Post editorial on the 48 Uyghurs at risk of deportation in 🇹🇭 Thailand. www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin...

A tiny 2% wealth tax, on 20k people would raise £24 billion per year to spend on the things that urgently need fixing in our country. We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, you must now weigh in before it's too late. #Uyghurs #China #unitednationshumanrights @volker_turk @MFAThai @ingshin @ThaksinLive STOP THE DEPORTATIONS! www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

"There are distressing indications that protection of the group from deportation has not been [UNHCR's] top priority," said Ben Carrdus, UHRP senior researcher. New questions on UNHCR's lack of support for Uyghurs in 🇹🇭 Thailand @6oldberg.bsky.social. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

"The psychiatric department has a type of admission called 'troublemakers'". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Released today by the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). @MFAThai @ingshin @ThaksinLive HALT THE DEPORTATIONS. #Uyghurs #Xinjiang #China

These #Uyghur men who have been detained in Thailand for a decade face certain persecution (physical and mental torture) and probably death if returned to #China. Please, please can those who have the power to halt this deportation step up now.

The new "normal" in the Uyghur region. A Uyghur woman—Seylihan Rozi—sentenced to 17 years for providing religious lessons to her two sons + a neighbor. Rozi’s sons were sentenced to seven and 10 years, and their neighbor was sentence to seven years. www.rfa.org/english/uygh...

A human rights group has urged Thailand not to deport to China 48 Uyghurs who have languished for more than a decade in detention, saying their safety and human rights must be the priority. The Uyghur men have been held at Immigration Detention Center since 2014. www.rfa.org/english/chin...

Gheni Mehet was detained in July 2017 and given 7 years for 'gathering a crowd to disturb social order', as a result of studying the Quran for a month in 2009-2010. By October 2018, he was reported as deceased. He was 30. shahit.biz/eng/39243/

These men have been detained in Thailand for years, and the international community, including the UN, has done very little of substance to assist them. Such is the power of China's international reach (#TransnationalRepression). apnews.com/article/uygh...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

Today marks 4 years since the death of Mirzahid Kerimi (shahit.biz/eng/2517/), a famous writer and editor who had been given an 11-year sentence in recent years. He had also served 13 years during the Cultural Revolution, for a poem he wrote. He was 81-82 years old.

$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

Adding the Aral City Pre-Trial Detention Center (阿拉尔市看守所) to our list of documented facilities: shahit.biz/eng/#facilit... This is an old and small facility in central Aral, just east of Tamen Prison, and is still active today. (1/4)

Today marks 6 years since the death of Mutellip Nurmehmet (shahit.biz/eng/3379/), a former US resident who obtained master's degrees from California State University and Northeastern University. He spent around 9 months in camp in 2018, dying a week after release.

There are over 2000 elderly victims documented as serving prison terms (potential death sentences): shahit.biz/elderlysente... Name: Yalqun Rozi Age: 58 Status: serving a 15-year sentence (Bingtuan Urumqi Prison) for "separatism" in textbooks shahit.biz/eng/965/

"Literally, as I was being eaten by a wild beast, I wasn't thinking about Jesus or my family or my son. I was thinking my insurance was not going to pay for this," www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Today marks 7 years since the death of Abdughopur Memet (shahit.biz/eng/56480/), who was detained in September 2017 for listening to "illegal" sermons in 1975 and having a beard between 2007 and 2015. He was given a prison term, but died soon after, at the age of 66.

I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. It ends at 23.59 GMT on Friday 13 December. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver

Heartened to see Canada, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day, impose Magnitsky sanctions on 8 more individuals involved in atrocities against #Uyghurs, importantly to include former #Xinjiang #CCP Party Secretary #ChenQuanguo. Take note, PM Keir Starmer. www.canada.ca/en/global-af...

3 years after #UyghurTribunal judgment that #China is committing genocide, crimes against humanity & torture in #UyghurRegion, accountability more important than ever. 2020 Reflection: Why Scholars and Activists Increasingly Fear a #Uyghur Genocide in #Xinjiang. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....