Tell the World: The Silent Plight of China’s Uighurs (WATCH)

Tell the World: The Silent Plight of China’s Uighurs How mass detention camps and heavy surveillance in Xinjiang are affecting Uighurs not just in China but also abroad. Filmmaker: Sophie McNeill Most members of the Australian Uighur community are missing someone. They all say they have a family member detained, imprisoned or trapped in what the Chinese […]

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Why are Iraqis protesting against the government? | Inside Story

Thu 03 October 2019: Iraq’s barely year old government is being forced to deal with the largest nationwide protests since taking over. Riot police contained demonstrators in Baghdad on Wednesday, 24 hours after bullets and tear gas were fired. At least three people died and hundreds of others were injured in Baghdad as well as […]

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‘I’m innocent’: Tariq Ramadan on rape allegations | Talk to Al Jazeera

Tue 01 October 2019: Tariq Ramadan is recognised by many as the most prominent Islamic studies academic in the Western world. But at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2017, Ramadan was forced to take leave from his post as Oxford University’s Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies over sexual assault allegations. He denied the […]

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Kashmir In Crisis: What’s India Doing? (WATCH)

Wed 18 September 2019: Kashmir has been under a strict lockdown ever since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the state of its autonomy in August 2019. But repression in Kashmir isn’t new. Since partition in 1947, Kashmir has faced heavy militarization, brutal crackdowns and communication blackouts. Why have Indian governments attempted to squash dissent […]

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Xinjiang: The story China wants the world to forget | The Listening Post (Full)

Tue 10 September 2019: In this special edition of The Listening Post, we focus on Xinjiang’s detention camps and examine how Uighur journalists, Chinese state media, and “open-source” researchers have covered the story. How China spins the Xinjiang story to the Chinese It is not clear how many people are currently being held against their […]

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How Islamophobia contributed to Modi’s crackdown on Kashmir

Wed 28 August 2019: Weeks after India initiated its ongoing military crackdown and communications blackout in Kashmir, activist Kavita Krishnan says that Islamophobia has played a “huge role” in justifying India’s encroachments on the region’s autonomy. “What they are doing is that they are projecting this victory over Kashmir, this triumph over this rebellious Muslim […]

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“This is rape culture language”: Activist Kavita Krishnan on Modi’s rhetoric toward Kashmiri women

Wed 28 August 2019: Since India enforced a crackdown on the disputed territory of Kashmir on Aug. 5, people in the region have been under a severe communications lockdown and experienced shortages of food and medicine. Kashmiri women and girls have expressed particular anger about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements implying that the change in […]

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