"I miss her so much: Australian man pleads for wife's release from Chinese prison.
High school sweethearts – both originally from China's Xinjiang Uighur region dreamed of living together in Australia. However, their dream shattered when his newly pregnant wife, Bizainafu Abudourexit, was caught up in a Chinese crackdown on the Uighur Muslim minority group, detained without charge, and sentenced to seven years in jail with no legal support.
Nizamidin is now waging a lonely campaign as an Australian citizen to get his wife released from a Chinese women's prison at a time when Australia is navigating a new relationship with China." Quoted from The Guardian.
This is just one example of Uyghur community stories in Australia hear every day nowadays.
"I don't know what to do. I am really scared. I am so worried about my father, my mother and my young brother. I don't know where they are now. I also don't know if they are still alive or dead." Quoted from Change. Currently, this is the usual conversation between Uyghur community members in Australia.
Based on media reports, an estimated number of Uyghurs detained in the camps stands around one million in April 2018 across the region.
Two returnees, Abdusalam Mamat and Yasinjan, died in December 2017 under uncertain circumstances during their time in the camps. In January 2018, Muhammed Salih Hajim, a respected religious scholar and translator of the Quran, died in a 're-education' camp at age 82. In addition, reports have indicated that a young Uyghur was driven to suicide in February 2018, and a Uyghur teenager died under mysterious circumstances in March 2018. One Kazakh national was imprisoned for over seven months on allegations of helping Uyghurs obtain passports and was subsequently sent to a camp for 20 days.
China's 're-education camp' system puts in violation of a number of international human rights norms, including those established in the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. Based on Australia's National Framework for Human Rights and National Action Plan, we request the Australian Government to call on China to end the 're-education' camp system and to release all Uyghurs detained in these facilities. Silence and inaction are not options with so many innocent lives at stake. Silence and inaction are only to encourage China to inflict more suffering on Uyghurs.
The voice of the voiceless Uyghurs languishing in the camps appeals urgently to your moral duty to say "STOP" to such a crime against humanity being committed by China.
Break your silence before we are silenced.
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