Uyghur Persecution in China

Comments focus on allegations of concentration camps, forced sterilizations, surveillance, and genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang by the Chinese government, with references to news reports and human rights organizations.

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Sample Comments

antioedipus Feb 27, 2019 View on HN

This is unfortunately true: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/world/asia/china-xinjiang...

martin_a Apr 17, 2025 View on HN

Overstatement? China is going fully facist on the Uyghurs for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_Chin...

ChemSpider Aug 26, 2021 View on HN

Not OP, but China does many shady things in the Uighur region. For example:https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/ch...

mapgrep Aug 26, 2021 View on HN

You are wrong dang. Why is this 100% simple factual post citing an internationally very prominent Chinese government official with an nytimes link -2?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28319070This post referring to the internationally condemned repression in xinjiang with an Atlantic link is also bizarrely downvoted<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28318

mapgrep Aug 26, 2021 View on HN

It’s worse than birth control. There are concentration camps in xinjiang. Called “re-education” or “vocational training.” There are many places to begin educating yourself on this (not directed at the person I’m replying to, but to the downvoters). You can start here if you like. Hrw is human rights watch. https:

esarbe Dec 29, 2020 View on HN

Yes.I don't get the downvotes here. Has anyone missed news about the concentration camps build for Uigurs[0]?[0] https://freebeacon.com/national-security/satellite-images-re...

fucking_tragedy Feb 12, 2019 View on HN

China is mass imprisoning, torturing and murdering Uyghur people[1].[1] https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...

joshypants Apr 11, 2019 View on HN

There's been a lot of reporting on this really dangerous situation, here's a recent article:https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/11/china-hi-tech-w...

Avamander Jun 14, 2019 View on HN

thankfully probably not as bad as the (Uyghur muslims)[https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/liam-sigler/panel-2-mil...]

bArray Sep 20, 2025 View on HN

Newsflash: China is conducting a ethnic genocide against the Uyghur Muslims [1], where they are held in concentration camps and likely harvest their organs.If that's what population investment looks like, count me out.[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22278037