The Uyghur World Congress (WUC), an International Uigures coalition that fled persecution in China, issued a statement on Wednesday that confirmed a man arrested in Sweden under suspicion of espionage for China was a spokesperson for a long time for the group.
The suspect, Dilshat Realthit, began service As the Chinese spokesman in the Chinese language for the WUC in 2004. The hero is the position until his trial last weekend, when the WUC inherited an emergency meeting to say goodbye.
According to Swedish prosecutors, the restart is suspicious Or “having illegally collecting information and intelligence about people in the Uigures environment on behalf of the Chinese Intelligence Service.”
The WUC saying He realized the Reshit trial on Wednesday.
“Recent judgments in several countries and the Western Parliament have highlighted the growing introduction and scope of Chinese espionage networks,” the group said.
“In this context, it is important to remember the reports of the media and credible investigations that reveal the existence of the ‘Police Stations’ unofficial police stations, Europe Europe, which are supposedly used to monitor, intimidate and repress, suggestions, eagle, eagle, eagle, yy tibut, and including others,” the statement said.
The WUC said that it has “implemented internal counterintelligence measures,” including the closest possible investigation for its officials, but “we lack institutional and financial resources to face the full scale and sophistication of transnational repression.”
“Therefore, we ask all governments and host countries that guarantee effective cooperation between their counterintelligence services and Uigures organizations. In urgency, greater coordination and institutional support are urgently needed to protect vulnerable communities and ensure that the legitimate work of human rights can continue free of foreign intimidation and interference,” said the WUC.
China’s transnational repression machinery has become generalized, which increases alarm in governments around the world. The last years saw the exposure Or “Chinese police stations in Europe and the United States, advanced positions of Chinese communist repression that specialized in monitoring and threatening dissidents who live abroad.
Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreigners and Security for the Government in Exile of Turkestán Oriental (ETGE), saying Wednesday was a dismay to see a founding member of the WUC exhibited as Chinese spy.
“Confirm what we have warned for years: the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated deeply organizations and communities to derail the Eastern Turkistan Independence Movement from the inside,” said Hudayar.
“East Turkestan” are the uigures’ traditional For his homeland, which was invaded and conquered by China several times in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and formally annexed under the name of “Xinjiang” in 1994. Many uigures consider Xinjiang, which simply “new territory” means in Chinese.
“For about two decades, a man now accused of working with Chinese intelligence stood at the front of an organization that claims to represent our people. This is not a failure of research research, it is deliberate,” said Hudayar.
“This is not simply espionage. It is a political war,” he said.
The ETGE argued On Friday, this Chinese infiltration has “significantly tissue the global defense of the uigures” to weaving calls to the independence of Oriental Turkestani, in favor of “more moderate calls for human rights and cultural autonomy.”
“The Uigures continue to face mass arbitrary arbitrations, forced sterilizations, systemic forced labor, severe religious restrictions and extensive transnational repression,” said ETGE.
