{"id":403,"date":"2024-07-26T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/?p=403"},"modified":"2024-07-26T19:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T19:42:06","slug":"coercive-family-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utjd.org\/news\/coercive-family-separation\/","title":{"rendered":"Coercive Family Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With 1 to 3 million people incarcerated in some form of mass internment, many Uyghur children have been deprived of one or both parents. Countless families have been coercively separated, in some cases there were relatives or extended families to take care of the children, but the regime forcibly sent thousands of children to de facto orphanages anyway; in many other cases, where given the regime\u2019s large-scale mass internment drive not only the parents but also the extended families have been sent away to the mass internment camps, as a result, the younger children would end up in \u201cchild welfare guidance centres\u201d, while older children may end up in state-run vocational schools, according to locals in \u00dcr\u00fcmchi and Kashgar (Feng 2018b). When Associated Press journalists visited one kindergarten with \u201ca walled enclosure lined with barbed wire\u201d in Khotan where one of their Uyghur informants\u2019 four children were believed to be kept, they were prevented from doing their job of investigating, and were ordered to delete any photos taken by armed police (Wang & Kang 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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