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Coulda just thrown my hands up, given up on trying to make a difference, and just decided I was going to grab as much as I humanly could but noooo...

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On the evening of 12 June 2013, according to court documents, three “Chinese intruders” were arrested by the Indian army in Sultan Chusku, a remote and uninhabited desert area in the mountainous northern region of Ladakh.

The three Thursun brothers – Adil, 23, Abdul Khaliq, 22 and Salamu, 20 – had found themselves in an area of unmarked and disputed borders after a 13-day journey by bus and foot over the rugged Himalayan terrain through China’s Xinjiang province, which borders Ladakh.

The men told army officials that they had fled their family home near the city of Kashgar in Xinjiang after the Chinese authorities intensified their crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and took several of their relatives into detention centres.

More than a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang appear to have been imprisoned in “re-education” camps and subjected to torture over the past decade for just attending a mosque or wearing a hijab.

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Latief U Zaman Deva, a former senior government official in Indian-administered Kashmir, of which Ladakh was part until 2019, believes the three men are victims of discrimination.

“Jailing these three violates the law. This is one of many examples where the current government demonstrates how it deals with a particular community: Muslims,” Deva says.

“The law being used against them is intended for people involved in anti-national activities or serious offences, not for persecuted people seeking refuge.”

Shafi says he will continue to fight for their release. “India has given refuge to tens of thousands of people from different persecuted communities at different stages of history. Even thousands of persecuted Tibetans live here and run their government in exile.

“If the government doesn’t want them to live here, they can release them and allow them to travel to a country which can offer them asylum. I hope they will be free one day – that is the goal of my life.”

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On February 27, 2025, Thailand returned 40 Uyghur refugees to China despite staggering amounts of evidence indicating they were at high risk of torture, enforced disappearance, and other inhuman treatment. Now, Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission found that the Thai Government, National Security Council and Immigration Office violated both international and Thai law, and undermined international confidence in Thailand, affecting Thailand’s global economic and trade relations and its standing among Muslim-majority countries.

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An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That’s when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to. The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart gadget worked for a while, it just refused to turn on soon after. After a lengthy investigation, he discovered that a remote kill command had been issued to his device.

Large amounts of personal information about medical professionals are available on people search sites. A new analysis by Incogni’s researchers shows how much data about doctors appears online and how easily it can be found. The findings should concern healthcare leaders who support staff safety, workforce protection, and clinical operations. Doctors have searchable profiles Researchers examined 786 medical doctors working in major U.S. hospitals. 97% of them appeared on at least one people search site. … More → The post Data brokers are exposing medical professionals, and turning their personal lives into open files appeared first on Help Net Security.

The partnership is designed to protect undersea oil and gas pipelines, as well as cables for data traffic.

Both navies will operate as one – sharing maintenance facilities, technology and equipment to create truly interchangeable forces able to deploy rapidly wherever needed, the British Ministry of Defence said in a press release.

This is the most comprehensive defence agreement in modern times, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence added as the deal was sign by Defence Secretary John Healey and his Norwegian counterpart Tore O. Sandvik at 10 Downing Street on December 4.

"The British presence in the High North plays a crucial role in safeguarding Norwegian and European security," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said after he met his British colleague Keir Starmer in London.

The two prime ministers then flew north to the Royal Airforce base Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland. It is from here British P-8 maritime patrol aircraft are operating when flying missions over the North Sea or further north over the Norwegian and Barents Seas.

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On the evening of 12 June 2013, according to court documents, three “Chinese intruders” were arrested by the Indian army in Sultan Chusku, a remote and uninhabited desert area in the mountainous northern region of Ladakh.

The three Thursun brothers – Adil, 23, Abdul Khaliq, 22 and Salamu, 20 – had found themselves in an area of unmarked and disputed borders after a 13-day journey by bus and foot over the rugged Himalayan terrain through China’s Xinjiang province, which borders Ladakh.

The men told army officials that they had fled their family home near the city of Kashgar in Xinjiang after the Chinese authorities intensified their crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and took several of their relatives into detention centres.

More than a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang appear to have been imprisoned in “re-education” camps and subjected to torture over the past decade for just attending a mosque or wearing a hijab.

[...]

Latief U Zaman Deva, a former senior government official in Indian-administered Kashmir, of which Ladakh was part until 2019, believes the three men are victims of discrimination.

“Jailing these three violates the law. This is one of many examples where the current government demonstrates how it deals with a particular community: Muslims,” Deva says.

“The law being used against them is intended for people involved in anti-national activities or serious offences, not for persecuted people seeking refuge.”

Shafi says he will continue to fight for their release. “India has given refuge to tens of thousands of people from different persecuted communities at different stages of history. Even thousands of persecuted Tibetans live here and run their government in exile.

“If the government doesn’t want them to live here, they can release them and allow them to travel to a country which can offer them asylum. I hope they will be free one day – that is the goal of my life.”

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Ukrainian children abducted by Russia are being forcibly sent to a summer camp in North Korea, a legal expert has said.

Kateryna Rashevska, a representative from Ukraine’s regional centre for human rights, told the US Senate that at least two young girls had been sent to Songdowon camp in North Korea.

At the children’s camp, the two girls – Misha, 12, and Liza, 16 – were “taught to ‘destroy Japanese militarists’ and met Korean veterans who … attacked the US Navy ship Pueblo”, she said.

Ms Rashevska made the comments at the start of the US Senate’s hearing on Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children.

At least 19,546 Ukrainian children are believed to have been abducted from Russian-controlled territory and taken to Russia since the start of the invasion in Feb 2022.

They are often taken to re-education camps, where they are “militarised and Russified”, Ms Rashevska said, adding that the human rights centre had identified at least 165 such camps.

The Songdowon camp – located in Wonsan, North Korea – hosts around 400 children every year. It hosts a series of activities, including a water park, a football pitch and a large private beach.

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Russia is one of a handful of countries that is allowed to send children to the camp. A former attendee, Yuri Frolov, previously told CNN that he attended the camp when he was 15, and socialised with children from Laos, Nigeria, Tanzania and China.

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Earlier this week, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, said only 1,859 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia had been brought back so far. Kyiv has made the return of stolen Ukrainian children a key demand during US-brokered peace negotiations with Russia, which are set to continue on Thursday.

Red squirrels have expanded their range across the Highlands by more than a quarter after a 10-year reintroduction programme moved hundreds to new homes.

The species once came close to extinction in Britain when foresters killed them as pests and their natural habitat was destroyed. A deadly virus carried by invasive grey squirrels has hampered their recovery.

Scotland is the red’s heartland, home to 80% of the UK’s population of about 200,000. The reintroduction project, run by the rewilding charity Trees for Life, has established more than a dozen thriving new sites, from Ullapool to Morvern to Lairg.

Republic Windows and Doors Occupation (2008)

Fri Dec 05, 2008

Image: Pickets outside Republic Windows and Doors offices. A sign facing the camera reads "You got bailed out We got sold out" [ueunion.org]

On this day in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, 300 workers at Republic Windows and Doors occupied their workplace after being laid off, losing health insurance and owed vacation pay with just 3 days notice.

On Tuesday, December 2nd, workers were told that the business would close at the end of the week. Two hundred and forty local union members voted to have a sit-in at the end of the week. They carefully organized the action, dividing into three shifts to manage and clean the factory equipment, provide security, and communicate with the media and supporters 24 hours a day.

Protesting workers displayed signs that said "No More Bailouts for the Ruling Class!" and "You got bailed out, We got sold out". The action won national attention, and eventually the corporation changed ownership, and all workers were able to keep their jobs.

Richard Gillman, the former CEO of Republic Windows and Doors, was convicted of stealing more than $500,000 from the company, fined $100,000 and sentenced to four years in prison. On May 30th, 2012, members of the local union founded the New Era Windows Cooperative with the help of The Working World, an organization that finances worker cooperatives.

• Date: 2008-12-05
• Learn More: libcom.org, www.peoplesworld.org, www.ueunion.org.
• Tags: #Labor.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

I think they've gone too far. Im boycotting