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How China Uses Financial Repression to Erase the Uyghur People (hrf.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Hotznplotzn to c/news@beehaw.org

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“If [the] government goes to the bank with a list of 100 Uyghur names and says, you know, ‘give me the bank balance for these people [and] how much money they have.’ The bank will print it out and hand it over to the CCP [Chinese Communist Party]. Then, they shut down the bank accounts, freeze their assets, and they take their properties,” she said.

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