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Twitter blocks dehumanizing Chinese Embassy tweet claiming Uighur women are no longer baby-making machines
Joshua ZitserJan 9, 2021, 17:48 IST
A woman holds a placard during a London protest in support of Uighur people over ongoing human rights violations in China s Xinjiang autonomous region on October 08, 2020.Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
On Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in the US posted a tweet claiming that Uighur women were no longer baby-making machines because of the eradication of extremism.
Twitter removed it on Saturday morning for violating rules against the dehumanization of a group of people, according to Ars Technica.
The tweet was linked to an article, published by the Chinese Communist Party, that celebrated the decline in birth rates in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of northwestern China.
Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
On Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in the US posted a tweet claiming that Uighur women were no longer baby-making machines because of the eradication of extremism.
Twitter removed it on Saturday morning for violating rules against the dehumanization of a group of people, according to Ars Technica.
The tweet was linked to an article, published by the Chinese Communist Party, that celebrated the decline in birth rates in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of northwestern China.
China has been accused of using inhumane birth control practices on Uighur women. Forced abortions, sterilization, and unwanted IUDs are widespread and systematic practices, according to the AP.
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