human rights

Sinicization Campaigns Target Hui Communities and Mosques

Steadily growing over the past few years, the Chinese government’s Sinicization campaigns have targeted a number of Muslim minority groups. These campaigns are perhaps most visible through the transformation of mosques, which...

Thailand Moves to Deport Uyghur Detainees to China

On Sunday, researcher Nyrola Elimä reported that authorities in Thailand’s immigration detention center have separated 48 Uyghurs from other prisoners and prepared the former group for possible deportation to China. Thousands of...

China’s Global Fishing Fleet Intrudes on Distant Waters

China’s “distant-water fishing” (DWF) activities are both figurative and literal. Figuratively, the term “fishing the high seas” (远洋捕捞, yuǎnyáng bǔlāo) describes the phenomenon of cash-strapped local authorities replenishing...

Life and Media Under the Taliban: A View from China

The latest draconian decree issued by the Taliban on Monday was a gradual media ban on all images of living things in news coverage. Repression of the media and civil rights may be even harsher under the Taliban than under the...

Essays on Colonialism and Indigeneity in and Beyond the P.R.C.

Uyghur villages have been Sinicized in Xinjiang. Local communities have been displaced for state-sponsored infrastructure projects in Tibet. News editors have been convicted of sedition in Hong Kong. National elections have been...

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