Lockdowns and crackdowns
2022.09.20
Cartoon by Rebel Pepper
Photo: RFA
China's uncompromising zero-COVID lockdown policies have caused starvation and death among the Uyghurs of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, where they have long endured extensive high-tech monitoring, repressive re-education policies and arbitrary incarceration under what China says is a campaign to combat extremist violence.
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