{"id":114928,"date":"2019-10-17T01:44:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/17\/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests\/"},"modified":"2019-10-17T01:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:44:40","slug":"think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114928","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Think of your family&#039;: China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France have complained of intimidation by Beijing Two days after Abdujelil Emet sat in the public gallery of Germany\u2019s parliament during a hearing on human rights, he received a phone call from his sister for the first time in three years. But the call from Xinjiang, in western China, was anything but a joyous family chat. It was made at the direction of Chinese security officers, part of a campaign by Beijing to silence criticism of policies that have seen more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities detained in internment camps.Emet\u2019s sister began by praising the Communist party and making claims of a much improved life under its guidance before delivering a shock: his brother had died a year earlier. But Emet, 54, was suspicious from the start; he had never given his family his phone number. Amid the heartbreaking news and sloganeering, he could hear a flurry of whispers in the background, and he demanded to speak to the unknown voice. Moments later the phone was handed to a Chinese official who refused to identify himself. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/17\/think-of-your-family-china-threatens-european-citizens-over-xinjiang-protests\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Think of your family&#039;: China threatens European citizens over Xinjiang protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France have complained of intimidation by Beijing Two days after Abdujelil Emet sat in the public gallery of Germany\u2019s parliament during a hearing on human rights, he received a phone call from his sister for the first time in three years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}