Yalkun Uluyol
@YalkunUluyol
China Researcher @hrw; Ph.D. in International Relations; @ (sometimes known as Yakup)
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Hong Kong's arrested 5 booksellers, raided 2 bookstores & intercepted book shipments. The "seditious" book intercepted is @EmilyZFeng's "Let Only Red Flowers Bloom," about Xi Jinping's ideological control, which kind of proves the point. News from Inmedia:
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As the annual Hong Kong Book Fair opens this week, two of the city’s best-known independent bookstores, Elmbook and Luckwin, won’t be there. On July 2, authorities barred them from exhibiting.
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Another heartbreaking account of the Chinese government's ongoing atrocities in the Uyghur homeland: @HKokbore waited a decade to hear his mother's voice, only to receive news of her passing. Beijing's inhumane brutality continues to haunt Uyghur exiles.
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“I am in exile, having fled nine years ago to avoid arrest. When I last saw my daughter, she was a wide-eyed 6-year-old. She is growing up today without her father in a country that wants her to forget who she is.”
A powerful must read from @TayorUyghur
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As China's authoritarian "ethnic unity law" takes effect, my heart is heavy. #Uyghur# script is removed from even the most iconic grand bazaar. If 10% of Uyghurs like my brother are in prison camps, the rest are strangers in their own land. The next generation will grow up without identity.
For those of us forced into exile, displacement feels more permanent. Any trace of homeland is erased year after year, along with ongoing atrocities.
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“Uyghurs are not Turks”
Chinese state media has reached a new, desperate low in its campaign to rewrite the history of the Uyghur people.
Latest by @arslan_hidayat
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It's been six years since Beijing imposed the draconian National Security Law in Hong Kong, creating a highly repressive national security regime.
How has the law affected Hong Kong’s vibrant spirit?
Learn more:
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China Rewrites Islam
From May 10 to 16, 2026, the “2026 Training Course on Adhering to the Direction of Sinicization of Islam in China” was held at the Central Institute of Socialism in Beijing.
Latest by @arslan_hidayat
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As a Uyghur working on China’s human rights violations, I surprisingly agree with what they say: “This law … turns years of governance experience into a legal and institutional framework.”
But, governance experience = forced assimilation.
@hrw’s take:
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China’s Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law will take effect on 1 July.
At a State Council Information Office press conference, officials rejected such claims as “cultural assimilation” and “forced labour”, urging critics to read the law itself and see a concrete step forward in advancing the rule of law.
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Intimidation against @ZumretErkin at the UN Human Rights Council is unacceptable. The Chinese government’s transnational repression is deeply felt across the diaspora, especially against those who dare to expose crimes against humanity in the Uyghur homeland on global stages.
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Yesterday, when I was filming content for @UyghurCongress inside the 🇺🇳, Chinese representatives from a GONGO (government backed NGO) tried to intimidate me again.
Help spread awareness about 🇨🇳 TNR.
#EndReprisals# #TNR#
#China# #Uyghurs# #freeouïghours# #freeuyghur#
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Pervasive racism against black people is rooted in beliefs in Social Darwinism in China. See prof @ChenggangXu2024's discussion in his book, Institutional Genes, and in his podcast with @vivianwubeijing: See also @hrw:
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China is totalitarian, not just authoritarian, because the Chinese Communist Party seeks to control all elements of society, even if certain types of decisions are delegated to local Party cadres.
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The censorship of prominent social media accounts, foreign films, and events with LGBT themes around Pride month illustrates the deteriorating human rights situation for LGBT people in China, @hrw said.
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Breaking: Hong Kong police arrested owners of Hunter Bookstore for "incitement" and "money laundering" for organizing talks & selling books ahead of 6th anniversary of National Security Law
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The manufactured image of "happy Uyghurs" whitewashes the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity in my homeland. I know it well - I was a victim and a tool of such propaganda years ago. @jleibold of La Trobe asked me about growing up Uyghur in China.
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Two men were jailed for as long as 10 years after being found guilty of spying for China that targeted UK based pro-democracy campaigners
The Chinese govt last week voted for a landmark International Labour Organization convention protecting gig workers, but these & other commitments mean little as workers can't organize or speak out. My short piece:
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Gig workers in China face low pay, unsafe conditions, and little or no protection when injured at work. In China, workers are denied the right to form independent unions and can face arrest and imprisonment for organizing. New from @wang_maya for @hrw
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The recent arrest of a prominent political analyst on Myanmar visiting China demonstrates Beijing’s intensifying intolerance of any independent voices or viewpoints not to their liking.
China’s Arrest of US Scholar Part of Worsening Trend. @hrw
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#TransnationalRepression# (when states targets critics beyond their borders) once again on @EuroParl_EN's agenda.
@HannahNeumannMEP's largely adopted report provides urgent roadmap for Commission & Member States to #StopTransnationalRepression#
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