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How China Uses Financial Repression to Erase the Uyghur People (hrf.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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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

By 1998, Radio Free Asia had launched a Uyghur Service where Abbas became the first Uyghur reporter broadcasting on Xinjiang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia

In 2017, Abbas founded Campaign for Uyghurs. The non-profit is based in Washington, DC, and is used to organize internationally for the rights of Uyghur people. The primary focus of the organization are the ongoing crimes against humanity in China.

Multiple Congress people in DC are also listed: Tom Suozzi of New York and Chris Smith of New Jersey, Marco Rubio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushan_Abbas#Campaign_for_Uyghurs

What's Marco Rubio up to at the moment?