Despite troubling jurisdictional issues, the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau in Xinjiang has imposed a fine of 75,000 yuan (US$10,300) on Yunnan-based artist and independent filmmaker Guo Zhenming (郭珍明) for “illegal...
“Voices of Protest” is a special edition of CDT’s monthly “Voices of…” video series. This 15-minute video is a compilation of video footage, images, and audio from the large, spontaneous public protests that broke out in a...
The recent protests commemorating victims of the November 24 fire in Urumqi and criticizing harsh pandemic measures and repressive government policies employed a wide variety of protest-themed slogans, artwork, poems, essays,...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Cyberspace Administration of China 6:11 P.M., November 29, 2022 Notification: Thorough Clean-up and...
On Thursday, a deadly fire broke out in a predominantly-Uyghur residential building under COVID-19 lockdown in Urumqi, Xinjiang’s capital, and kicked off a series of nationwide protests calling for an end to China’s restrictive...
This post contains a large volume of interactive embedded media, which may take time to load correctly. The current wave of protests across China in the wake of a deadly fire in Urumqi has been closely tracked and analysed on...
Three men are being investigated by the Xinjiang Cyberspace Administration for “disrupting public order on the internet and causing adverse social impact” by flooding a live-streamed official press conference with “malicious”...
Two years and eight months after whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang’s death from COVID-19, the “Wailing Wall” that emerged in the comments under his last Weibo post continues to serve as a repository for the hopes, dreams, worries,...
A new report from Buzzfeed News identifies 268 new purpose-built detention sites across Xinjiang, detected by cross-referencing areas obscured on Baidu Maps’ satellite view with images from sources not subject to Chinese...
An ongoing terror crackdown in Xinjiang, launched in May 2014 in response to escalating violence...
CDT translation contributor Alicia translates a propaganda song that she found to be ubiquitous...
At Global Voices, Oiwan Lam reports that residents in a district of Urumqi, the capital of the...
Following a deadly knife attack in Pishan county, Xinjiang on February 14 and amid an...
A deadly knife attack in Xinjiang’s Pishan county last week, in which eight people including the...
As mounting violence in recent years has led to an ongoing security crackdown in Xinjiang, the...
Since 2012, China has been slowly but steadily increasing diplomatic engagement with Afghanistan—a...
Xinjiang government news portal Tianshan Net reported [Chinese] that police shot and killed six...
The Urumqi legislature’s standing committee has approved a ban on wearing the veil, which now...
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