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My testimony from 2018 (as the single most useful thing I can post here):

livingotherwise.com/2018/07/31/h...

6 years later, this is still the world I live in, and it remains the strongest thing I've ever written, and probably will ever write. Translations attached.
Gene A. Bunin: How the “Happiest Muslims in the World” are Coping with Their Happiness
Disclaimer: The greater part of this article seeks to convey the words, views, and behaviors of ethnic Uyghurs residing in both China proper (“inner China”) and China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous R…
livingotherwise.com
Paper with a comprehensive review of Xinjiang's judicial statistics now online: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

This is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject to date, and should be useful as it covers a lot of ground/data.
(PDF) Accounting for missing data and inconsistencies in official judicial statistics for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
PDF | The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China has traditionally seen high levels of incarceration by both domestic and international... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
www.researchgate.net
July 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The other day, I had to inform an Uyghur person outside China that their relative passed away in detention in 2017-2018 (this information was somewhere in the ~50000 internal records we have access to).

It's 2025, and they didn't know.
April 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My testimony from 2018 (as the single most useful thing I can post here):

livingotherwise.com/2018/07/31/h...

6 years later, this is still the world I live in, and it remains the strongest thing I've ever written, and probably will ever write. Translations attached.
Gene A. Bunin: How the “Happiest Muslims in the World” are Coping with Their Happiness
Disclaimer: The greater part of this article seeks to convey the words, views, and behaviors of ethnic Uyghurs residing in both China proper (“inner China”) and China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous R…
livingotherwise.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:15 AM