Chinese citizens will have to realise Uighurs are not only ones targeted, says Jewher Ilham. FMTNews Politics China Virus Covid19
GENEVA: Chinese suffering under harsh measures used to fight the deadly new coronavirus should recognise that similar methods have been deployed against China’s minorities for years, an exiled Uighur rights activist said this week.
“This is a time when the Chinese citizens will have to realise that the Uighurs are not the only ones who are targeted,” Ilham told AFP this week in Geneva, where she was attending a conference for human rights activists. Chinese authorities have taken drastic means to try to halt the spread of Covid-19, which has killed more than 2,200 people since emerging in December, with more than 75,000 people infected in China and hundreds more in over 25 other countries.
But rights advocates have raised alarm over the crackdown both on freedom of movement and of expression and have also raised questions about access to food and medicine for those under lockdown.“The treatment for those Wuhan patients or non-patients is not new. We found it very similar to what the Uighurs have been experiencing for the past decade, like locking them up at home, not giving food,” Ilham said.
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