Rahile Dawut loses appeal against a charge of endangering state security, a rights group says.

A prominent Uyghur academic has been reportedly jailed for life by China for “endangering state security”.

Rahile Dawut’s sentence was confirmed after she appealed against a 2018, according to the US-based Dui Hua Foundation rights group.

The 57-year-old professor lost her appeal this month.

China has been accused of crimes against humanity against the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang.

Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls “re-education camps”.

  • tetraodon@feddit.itEnglish
    221·
    1 year ago

    They’ll say nothing first and, if pushed, “but what about Guantanamo?”

    Tankies are so predictable.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Such bs.

      Can’t USA and China both have problems? I don’t get why it’s always one or the other. Guess it helps not living in either.

      • tetraodon@feddit.itEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        I have no problem admitting Guantanamo, and all the other horrific shit that America did in South America, the Middle East, and around the world.

        Tankies on the other hand actively defend Chinese atrocities and failing that, use American atrocities to deflect. Just watch hexbear/lemmygrad tankies swarm any topic even loosely related to the Tiananmen Square Massacre with revisionist bullshit. Example: https://lemmy.zip/post/3180475

        We are not the same.

    • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 year ago

      Mainstream media should also come up at some point after letting them know whataboutism isn’t a personality.