Since 2014, the world has gradually been learning about the horrors that occur in China’s #Xinjiang #Uyghur Autonomous Region. #Media reports have described how #Uyghurs are put in “vocational training camps,” which are effectively concentration camps. People can be put there for the smallest expression of religiosity, and any hope of getting out requires undergoing a “reeducation” process, though some never escape at all. Members of Xinjiang’s other ethnic groups are put in the camps, too — primarily Kazakhs. Since February 2021, the relatives and loved ones of Kazakh people currently being held in the Xinjiang camps have held daily #protests outside of the Chinese Consulate in #Almaty. Meduza is publishing photographer Ofeliya Zhakaeva’s project “Nearby,” which focuses on Chinese Kazakhs whose relatives have disappeared into the Xinjiang internment system. She photographed protest participants outside of the Consulate with objects that remind them of their loved ones and recorded their stories.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/06/07/i-asked-them-to-remove-mom-s-chains-they-refused #china #kazakhstan #opression #shanghai
