In total, at least 127 journalists are in detention across the country, according to the NGO.
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Some 71 Uyghur journalists are detained in China as part of the repression of this Muslim ethnic group in Xinjiang province, said Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Tuesday (December 7th). In a report titled “The great leap back of journalism in China”, the association for the defense of press freedom denounces “an unprecedented crackdown by the Chinese regime in recent years against journalism and the right to information around the world”. According to RSF, at least 127 journalists are in detention across the country.
The communist regime imposed “an information blackout” in Xinjiang by de facto preventing independent reporting on the ground, said Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja from abroad, quoted in the report. Among the Uyghur perpetrators in detention are the intellectual Ilham Tohti, winner of the 2019 Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament and who maintained a website listing problems faced by his minority. Gulmira Imin, administrator of another website, has been imprisoned since 2009.
More than a million Uyghurs have been locked up in political re-education centers as part of the crackdown initiated by the Xi Jinping regime, according to human rights associations. Beijing disputes this figure and speaks of vocational training centers intended to remove “trainees” radicalization.