Uyghurs Demand an End to Mass Incarcerations Ahead of 22nd Anniversary of Ghulja Massacre

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Uyghurs Demand an End to Mass Incarcerations Ahead of 22nd Anniversary of Ghulja Massacre
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Uyghur protesters in Frankfurt, Germany, call for an end to mass incarcerations in Xinjiang, Feb. 2, 2019.

Thousands of Uyghurs turned out in protests in cities around the world at the weekend to demand an end to what they called Beijing’s repression of the mostly Muslim ethnic minority group in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Uyghurs’ historic homeland.

The protests, which were held in countries as far apart as Germany, France, Austria, Belgium,  the U.K, Australia, Turkey, and Japan, will be followed on Feb. 5 by a demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in Washington D.C. calling for the release of over a million Uyghurs now held in political re-education camps in China.

February 5 marks the 22nd anniversary of a 1997 massacre by Chinese state security forces of hundreds of Uyghur protesters in the Xinjiang city of Ghulja, which was observed with a commemorative gathering this weekend in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan.

Read more at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/ghulja-02042019175208.html