Stop deportation of Uighurs to china

china has repackaged its repression of Uighurs as a fight against 'terrorism'," said Amnesty International. "Since the 11 September 2001 attacks on the USA, the chinese government has been using "anti-terrorism" as a pretext to increase its crackdown on all forms of political or religious dissent in the region."

Over the last three years, tens of thousands of people are reported to have been detained on grounds of "anti-terrorism" in the East Turkestan. This is despite the claim by the head of the regional government in April that "not one incident of explosion or assassination took place in the last few years".

The chinese government continues to detain prisoners of conscience -- who have never used or advocated violence  showing that china's policies of repression in the region stretch far beyond combating acts of violence or "terrorism".

One prisoner of conscience, Rebiya Kadeer, 57, used to be celebrated as a model businesswoman by the chinese government: she was part of the official delegation to the UN World Conference on Women in 1995. Then in 2000 the mother of eleven was sentenced in a secret trial to eight years in prison for "providing secret information to foreigners". It turned out she had sent publicly available local newspapers to her husband, a former political prisoner who went to live in the USA. Rebiya Kadeer now suffers chronic gastritis and is on daily medication in prison. Amnesty International welcomes the reduction in her sentence by one year announced in March, but continues to call for her immediate and unconditional release.

The government has also shut down a number of mosques and banned some religious schools and practices, as it tightens restrictions on the religious rights of Uighurs, most of whom are Muslims. As well as sweeping restrictions on religious, cultural and social rights, suspected "separatists, terrorists or religious extremists" have for years faced imprisonment or execution after unfair trials, as well as torture and long-term detention without charge or trial or access to lawyers or family.

"At current levels of repression, the space for independent expression of Uighur cultural or religious identity is narrowing dangerously", said Amnesty International.

Many Uighurs choose to flee to neighbouring countries, such as Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Nepal and Pakistan. But even then they are not safe, as the chinese government pressures such countries to forcibly return the asylum-seekers. Back in china, they face serious human rights violations, including torture, unfair trials, and even execution.
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THE 10 CONDITIONS OF LOVE is a story of a woman, a man, a family, a people and a homeland. It is the story of Rebiya Kadeer, china's nightmare, the woman it accuses of inciting terrorism.

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It is also the story of the other Tibet, the Muslim Tibet - the country its people call East Turkestan, but which the hinese call xinjiang province - the darkest secret on china's moral character.

It is a big story: a story of the ruthless oppression of 20-million people; of the global politics of energy; of Super Power politicking over the War on Terror; and of the pain of a deeply loving family torn violently apart.

Exiled in the US, Rebiya Kadeer is fighting for the human rights of her people, the Uyghur pronounced weeger, china's oppressed Muslim minority. But Rebiya Kadeer's campaign condemns her sons to on-going solitary confinement in a chinese prison. Having done six years' solitary herself, she understands the appalling consequences for them of her actions - but she will not relent.

Twice nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, once the richest businessperson in china, Rebiya Kadeer is a remarkable woman who pays daily a terrible price for patriotism.And it will never be over.