Does Chinese influence and diplomatic relations in countries around the globe affect media reports and mentions on a controversial Uyghurs’ issue?
The story will explore the timeline (probably from 2017-2021) of the media reports on Uyghur’s per country and compare with the respective country’s diplomatic relations with China.
Uighurs are a largely Muslim ethnic minority primarily from the Xinjiang region of northwest China. The program sends Uighurs and other ethnic minorities into factory and service jobs. Now, their labor is part of the P.P.E. supply chain. BuzzFeed News found 268 detention compounds in Xinjiang built since 2017. An investigation by The New York Times last year found that courts in Xinjiang — where Uighurs and other largely Muslim minorities make up more than half of the population of 25 million — sentenced 230,000 people to prison or other punishments in 2017 and 2018, far more than in any other period on record for the region.
- Storyline on China’s Oppression of Muslims from the NYTimes
- BBC Report: Who are the Uighurs and why is China being accused of genocide?
- Visual Investigation from the New York Times Secret Video Offers Rare Look Inside Chinese Labor Program
- Visual Investigations from the New York Times in collaboration with Human Rights Center at Berkeley Wearing a Mask? It May Come From China’s Controversial Labor Program
- Buzzfeed Investigations on Blanked-Out Spots On China's Maps Helped Us Uncover Xinjiang's Camps