Twitter Locks Account of China s US Embassy For Statement on Uighurs
The tech company said that a tweet that defended China s policy towards Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang violated its stand against dehumanising people.
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Shanghai: Twitter has locked the account of China’s US embassy for a tweet that defended China’s policy towards Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, which the US social media platform said violated its stand against “dehumanising” people.
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Twitter has locked the account of China’s U.S. embassy for a tweet that defended China’s policy toward Muslim Uyghur in Xinjiang, which the U.S. social media platform said violated its stand against “dehumanizing” people.
China’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it was confused by the move and that it was the embassy’s responsibility to call out disinformation and clarify the truth.
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Published: 21 Jan 2021 10:30 PM BdST
Updated: 21 Jan 2021 10:30 PM BdST
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China’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it was confused by the move and that it was the embassy’s responsibility to call out disinformation and clarify the truth.
The Chinese Embassy account, @ChineseEmbinUS, posted a tweet this month that said that Uighur women had been emancipated and were no longer “baby-making machines”, citing a study reported by state-backed newspaper China Daily.
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New Delhi: Faced with an angry outburst not just from the Uyghur community but also prominent politicians, human rights activists and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Twitter has finally removed a tweet from a Chinese government account justifying its genocidal policy in the Uyghur dominated Xinjiang region, the westernmost part of the country.
In a tweet Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in the United States had shared a China Daily report on the population change in Xinjiang published by the Xinjiang Development Research Center defending China s oppression of Uyghur Muslims.