Uyghur Muslim men are held in a Chinese detention center where prisoners are shaved, blindfolded and have their hands bound behind their back. The detainees are seen wearing purple vests with the words 'Kashgar Detention Center' written on their backs. Source: Drone video released on YouTube, September 2019.
HMTC presented a virtual program, “China’s Crimes Against Humanity and the Enslavement of the Uyghur People,” on June 16, 2020.
The speakers were: Dr. Adrian Zenz, a Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and Rushan Abbas, the founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, who outlined the ethnic cleansing of the Uyghur Muslim minority population currently taking place in western China, which the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China has labeled as “Crimes against Humanity.”
The program was co-sponsored by the Islamic Center of Long Island, the Nassau County Office of Asian American Affairs and The Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock.
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