newspaper said,The Wall Street Journal“China has confiscated tens of millions of dollars from the property and assets of the Muslim Uighur detainees in Xinjiang.

At least 150 assets, ranging from household appliances to real estate and company shares, have been seized by courts in northwest China’s Xinjiang, and auctioned on e-commerce websites, the newspaper said.

The newspaper pointed out that the seized assets belong to 21 people from the Uighur minority, and a total value of $ 84.8 million, while the Xinjiang government did not respond to the newspaper’s request for comment.

In recent years, the Chinese government has cracked down on Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, with authorities destroying mosques and other religious sites and arresting hundreds of thousands of people in camps, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Human rights groups and several Western countries, including the United States, accuse China of committing acts of genocide in its suppression of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim groups.

However, Beijing vehemently denies this, and asserts that the camps are aimed at rehabilitation as part of a campaign to eradicate extremism, while the Uighurs assert that their culture is being destroyed.

Chinese law enables authorities to confiscate assets and sell them for certain civil disputes and criminal charges. “This is probably just the tip of the iceberg,” said Nicole Morgrett, director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project.

A Wall Street Journal analysis of corporate records in Hotan – home to many prominent Uyghur real estate developers – indicates that authorities’ orders to freeze the assets of minority entrepreneurs increased sharply in 2018, one year after Xinjiang authorities began the mass crackdown. against Muslim minorities.

In this context, the newspaper publishedThe New York TimesA report by two journalists, Tinsui Li Wei and Moo Yixiu, said that Afghans of the Uighur ethnicity fear that Afghanistan will hand them over to the Chinese authorities, after the Taliban came to power.

In the report, they said Ibrahim’s parents fled political turmoil in China for Afghanistan more than 50 years ago. At that time, Mao Zedong unleashed the Cultural Revolution, and life was turned upside down for many Uighurs, the mostly Muslim ethnic group living in Xinjiang to which Ibrahim’s parents belonged.

Ibrahim was born in Afghanistan. But now he is also trying to escape the clutches of Chinese tyranny, and he and his family have been afraid to leave their home in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control last month, venturing out to buy only the necessities.

Ibrahim, whose full name has been withheld for his safety, said: “We are very worried and nervous.. Our children are worried about our safety, so they asked us to stay at home.”

For years, Chinese officials have issued calls to leaders in Afghanistan to crack down and deport Uighurs they claimed were sheltering in Afghanistan. Officials said the fighters belonged to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a separatist organization that Beijing has blamed for a series of terrorist attacks in China since the late 1990s.