updoots to the left

edit: thanks for the gold kind hexbearritor! tip of my hat to you m'gentlesir!

  • doggydog2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    ive been trying to look into these articles cuz i remember seeing claims similar to the ones in it for a couple years now.

    suspiciously enough every article has the same usual suspects :soviet-hmm:

    Ivan Watson, "During his time with CNN, Watson has roamed across the world, reporting on a wide range of stories. Most recently, he played a key role covering Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution pro-democracy movement. " https://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/watson.ivan.html Ben Westcott, another CNN Hong Kong rep,

    and Abduweli Ayup: the 2nd guy interviewed in the article. "Mr. Abduweli Ayup is a Uyghur linguist, currently living in Bergen, Norway, as a Fellow with the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN). He received his Master's Degree in Linguistics from the University of Kansas in 2011. After returning to China, he promoted social and cultural rights through promotion of Uyghur-language education. He was imprisoned in 2013-2014, and suffered months of incommunicado detention and torture. His career as a human-rights defender and advocate for linguistic rights is covered in an in-depth UHRP report published in May 2019, "Abduweli Ayup and the Movement for Uyghur Mother Tongue-Based Education."" listed right next to my boy zenz https://www.hillhappenings.com/list/2020/2/18/the-ordeal-of-a-uyghur-county-case-records-of-mass-detention

    also it seems like they added an element of gang r*** by inmates to his story?? https://uyghurtribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/04-1710-JUN-21-UTFW-013-Abduweli-Ayup-English-1.pdf

    also :1984: Abduweli Ayup, a 47-year-old Uyghur language teacher currently in exile in Norway, has read Nineteen Eighty-Four in three languages, and recognises Winston Smith’s ordeals. When I spoke to him, he told me that, starting in 2015, after being accused of militant separatism, he spent 15 months enduring detention and torture, and being pressured to confess to separatist extremism. He recalled that watching broadcast confessions while in detention in Urumqi had an extraordinary effect. “Some of my cellmates told the same story they heard on TV,” he says. “They made those stories become their own story.” https://www.newstatesman.com/world/asia/2020/07/how-orwell-foretold-remaking-xinjiang

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Abduweli Ayup, a 47-year-old Uyghur language teacher currently in exile in Norway, has read Nineteen Eighty-Four in three languages, and recognises Winston Smith’s ordeals.

      Absolutely and completely beyond parody.