At least 71 Uyghur journalists, professional and non-professional, are currently being held in China in the context of the persecution against this Muslim minority in the province Xinjiang, according to yesterday’s report Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
In its report entitled “The Great Leap Behind Journalism in China”, the Press Freedom Organization denounces “the unprecedented crackdown on the Chinese regime in recent years against journalism and the right to information throughout the world. people”.
According to RSF, at least 127 journalists are detained throughout China.
The Beijing justifies the arrests of professional journalists and citizen journalists by saying that they incite riots, with RSF to point out that the situation in China worsened after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Uighurs make up the majority of detained journalists
Human rights organizations accuse China that more than one million Uighur Muslims have been imprisoned in political retraining centers in Xinjiang, a huge province in the northwest China.
The Uyghurs, a minority who make up the majority of the province’s population, have been targeted by the authorities following a series of attacks on Islamists and separatists. The Beijing claims that the camps are vocational training centers and aim to prevent the radicalization of the Uighurs.
The communist regime has imposed a “blackout on information” in Xinjiang, blocking the access of freelance journalists there, the journalist estimated from abroad Gulcera Hoxha, belonging to the Uyghur minority and referred to in their report RSF.
Among the Uighur journalists detained is the intellectual Χαλχαμ Τότι, honored with Sakharov Prize 2019 of the European Parliament, who had a website listing the problems faced by his minority. THE Gulmira Imin, director of another website, has been detained since 2009.
The Chinese president Xi Jinping “Violently ended” hopes for improved press freedom in China, estimated by Christoph Delouar general secretary of RSF.
Last year, 18 foreign journalists were forced to leave China and an Australian journalist working for Chinese television, the Cheng Lei, arrested.
At least 10 journalists, professional or not, have been arrested for covering the lockdown in early 2020 in Ohan, where Covid-19 was first located.
One of them, the Zhang Zhan, has been sentenced to four years in prison. According to her relatives, her life is in danger as she goes on a hunger strike.
The RSF rank China 177th out of a total of 180 countries in World List of Freedom of the Press 2021.
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