China counters Uighur criticism with explicit attacks on women witnesses
www.reuters.com
China, under growing global pressure over its treatment of minority Muslim Uighurs in far west Xinjiang, is mounting an unprecedented and aggressive campaign to push back, including explicit attacks on women who have made claims of abuse.

China really dropping the ball on this one.

Chinese officials have named women, disclosed what they say is private medical data and information on the women’s fertility, and accused some of having affairs and one of having a sexually transmitted disease. The officials said the information was evidence of bad character, invalidating the women’s accounts of abuse in Xinjiang.

This on the heels after last month referring to Uighur women as baby making machines.

China has to work on their PR game.

  • maverick [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Thanks for the link.

    After reading through it the worst thing I could find was that he said one of the women that did interviews with BBC is infertile. Somewhat over the line to say that in a press conference but it wasn't to attack her character but to attack her claims of forced sterilization. Not great but not nearly as bad as the article above makes it out to be.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah the really bad stuff is the Xinjiang local officials, but I don't speak mandarin and am not gonna bother the people I know who do to go hunt for it right now lol.

      • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        So in other words, you have no evidence for this "really bad stuff" and are just gonna take Reuters' word for it.