Magnus Fiskesjö
@magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social
I teach Anthropology & Asian studies @ Cornell University. Formerly Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy in Beijing; 2nd secretary Swedish embassy in Tokyo. Views my own.
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Bibliography - Uyghur Human Rights Project
For an extensive bibliography of many of the relevant new reports and academic works on the Uyghur issue, please see below or download the document. Compiled by Magnus Fiskesjö [[email protected]]. Las...
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Updated bibliography on the Chinese government's mass atrocities against #Uyghur, #Kazakh & other peoples in #EastTurkistan/#Xinjiang since 2017:
uhrp.org/bibliography/
Now updated to: November 25, 2025.
Updates posted periodically. Free to use.
Send me missing items! Thanks.
uhrp.org/bibliography/
Now updated to: November 25, 2025.
Updates posted periodically. Free to use.
Send me missing items! Thanks.
This is exactly right. And one more thing driving towards WWIII: dividing the world into interest spheres to abolish the UN order, so Putin takes Ukraine, Xi Taiwan, and T Greenland.
Such a might-is-right "balance" is illusory. It will last about 5 minutes. Check history
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Such a might-is-right "balance" is illusory. It will last about 5 minutes. Check history
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Trump wants a Nobel. His Ukraine plan—written by a real estate developer using a Kremlin translator—could trigger World War II
Historian Timothy Snyder on why excluding Ukraine from negotiations about its own future guarantees future conflict.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/26/t...
Historian Timothy Snyder on why excluding Ukraine from negotiations about its own future guarantees future conflict.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/26/t...
Trump wants a Nobel. His Ukraine plan could trigger World War III
If implemented, it would encourage Russia to continue waging war in Europe, undermine the international order, and increase the risk of nuclear war.
euromaidanpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is exactly right. And one more thing driving towards WWIII: dividing the world into interest spheres to abolish the UN order, so Putin takes Ukraine, Xi Taiwan, and T Greenland.
Such a might-is-right "balance" is illusory. It will last about 5 minutes. Check history
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Such a might-is-right "balance" is illusory. It will last about 5 minutes. Check history
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
Palestina-aktivisterna som gillar folkmord -- mot uigurer:
"Första chocken kom när hon hörde aktivister avfärda förtrycket av uigurerna som sionistisk, västerländsk propaganda..Till en början en marginell radikal del av rörelsen..men det blev mer utbrett med tiden"
kvartal.se/nathalieroth...
"Första chocken kom när hon hörde aktivister avfärda förtrycket av uigurerna som sionistisk, västerländsk propaganda..Till en början en marginell radikal del av rörelsen..men det blev mer utbrett med tiden"
kvartal.se/nathalieroth...
Hon är modekreatören som gjorde slut med Palestinarörelsen – Kvartal
”Det fanns absolut ingen tolerans för nyanser.”
kvartal.se
November 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Palestina-aktivisterna som gillar folkmord -- mot uigurer:
"Första chocken kom när hon hörde aktivister avfärda förtrycket av uigurerna som sionistisk, västerländsk propaganda..Till en början en marginell radikal del av rörelsen..men det blev mer utbrett med tiden"
kvartal.se/nathalieroth...
"Första chocken kom när hon hörde aktivister avfärda förtrycket av uigurerna som sionistisk, västerländsk propaganda..Till en början en marginell radikal del av rörelsen..men det blev mer utbrett med tiden"
kvartal.se/nathalieroth...
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Martin Kragh: Throughout 2025, the Kremlin has used the prospect of peace negotiations as a tool to subvert the threat of new sanctions, or otherwise hinder a development considered contrary to Russian interests.
sceeus.se/publikatione...
sceeus.se/publikatione...
The 28-point plan and its implications - Sceeus
SCEEUS Commentary | The 28-point plan and its implications | By Martin Kragh
sceeus.se
November 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Martin Kragh: Throughout 2025, the Kremlin has used the prospect of peace negotiations as a tool to subvert the threat of new sanctions, or otherwise hinder a development considered contrary to Russian interests.
sceeus.se/publikatione...
sceeus.se/publikatione...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Updated bibliography on the Chinese government's mass atrocities against #Uyghur, #Kazakh & other peoples in #EastTurkistan/#Xinjiang since 2017:
uhrp.org/bibliography/
Now updated to: November 25, 2025.
Updates posted periodically. Free to use.
Send me missing items! Thanks.
uhrp.org/bibliography/
Now updated to: November 25, 2025.
Updates posted periodically. Free to use.
Send me missing items! Thanks.
Bibliography - Uyghur Human Rights Project
For an extensive bibliography of many of the relevant new reports and academic works on the Uyghur issue, please see below or download the document. Compiled by Magnus Fiskesjö [[email protected]]. Las...
uhrp.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Updated bibliography on the Chinese government's mass atrocities against #Uyghur, #Kazakh & other peoples in #EastTurkistan/#Xinjiang since 2017:
uhrp.org/bibliography/
Now updated to: November 25, 2025.
Updates posted periodically. Free to use.
Send me missing items! Thanks.
uhrp.org/bibliography/
Now updated to: November 25, 2025.
Updates posted periodically. Free to use.
Send me missing items! Thanks.
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It's somewhat amusing that you can pass yourself off as a Russia expert commenting on this "peace deal" as messy but at least "a way to end the war" without realising Kremlin sees it as just a tactic to continue it later.
It will end nothing.
It will end nothing.
November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's somewhat amusing that you can pass yourself off as a Russia expert commenting on this "peace deal" as messy but at least "a way to end the war" without realising Kremlin sees it as just a tactic to continue it later.
It will end nothing.
It will end nothing.
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The Putin–Trump pact is being sold as diplomacy, but Marko Mihkelson argues it follows the logic of appeasement: Ukraine gives up its sovereignty while Russia keeps the gains of aggression.
Europe cannot afford this illusion of peace.
Europe cannot afford this illusion of peace.
Why Europe cannot afford the illusion of peace
Call it what it is: the Putin–Trump plan demands Ukraine’s capitulation, not peace.
euromaidanpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The Putin–Trump pact is being sold as diplomacy, but Marko Mihkelson argues it follows the logic of appeasement: Ukraine gives up its sovereignty while Russia keeps the gains of aggression.
Europe cannot afford this illusion of peace.
Europe cannot afford this illusion of peace.
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NEW research by @peterirwin.bsky.social for UHRP #Insights💡
Building on July research, Irwin finds cargo flights from Ürümchi to Europe increasing, with more carriers to new destinations.
New routes fly directly to 🇫🇷 Paris and Lyon.
uhrp.org/insights/fro...
Building on July research, Irwin finds cargo flights from Ürümchi to Europe increasing, with more carriers to new destinations.
New routes fly directly to 🇫🇷 Paris and Lyon.
uhrp.org/insights/fro...
From Ürümchi to Paris and Brussels: The Spread of Uyghur Region Air Cargo Across Europe - Uyghur Human Rights Project
November 24, 2025 A UHRP Insights column by Peter Irwin, Associate Director for Research and Advocacy In July 2025, I warned in research with Henryk Szadziewski, UHRP Director of Research, about new a...
uhrp.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW research by @peterirwin.bsky.social for UHRP #Insights💡
Building on July research, Irwin finds cargo flights from Ürümchi to Europe increasing, with more carriers to new destinations.
New routes fly directly to 🇫🇷 Paris and Lyon.
uhrp.org/insights/fro...
Building on July research, Irwin finds cargo flights from Ürümchi to Europe increasing, with more carriers to new destinations.
New routes fly directly to 🇫🇷 Paris and Lyon.
uhrp.org/insights/fro...
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Uyghur student #KamileWayit, Uyghur songwriter #YasharShohret and filmmaker #ChenPinlin remain imprisoned today simply for exercising their basic rights to freedom and expression.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Uyghur student #KamileWayit, Uyghur songwriter #YasharShohret and filmmaker #ChenPinlin remain imprisoned today simply for exercising their basic rights to freedom and expression.
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🔗 www.nchrd.org/2024/11/beij...
#BlankPaper
🔗 www.nchrd.org/2024/11/beij...
Chinese intelligence fake posing as the US ACLU [American civil liberties union], to trick a poster into revealing sources of info on the execution of Uyghurs.
There is no limit to what the Chinese communists will do.
x.com/v_brigade/st...
There is no limit to what the Chinese communists will do.
x.com/v_brigade/st...
V字旅 on X: "Australian Federal Police are investigating Chinese intelligence posing as US ACLU to extract sources of Uyghur execution material from Eric. @V_brigade_Eric was mass-reported and frozen after posting it.@ACLU @X @Support https://t.co/7quydPpGq9" / X
Australian Federal Police are investigating Chinese intelligence posing as US ACLU to extract sources of Uyghur execution material from Eric. @V_brigade_Eric was mass-reported and frozen after posting it.@ACLU @X @Support https://t.co/7quydPpGq9
x.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Chinese intelligence fake posing as the US ACLU [American civil liberties union], to trick a poster into revealing sources of info on the execution of Uyghurs.
There is no limit to what the Chinese communists will do.
x.com/v_brigade/st...
There is no limit to what the Chinese communists will do.
x.com/v_brigade/st...
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@safeguarddefenders.bsky.social @iccl.bsky.social
🎧New Episode☘️
A conversation about secrecy, power, and the Uyghur crisis.
Dr. David O’Brien helps us pull back the curtain on China’s hidden diplomacy▶️
Apple
apple.co/3M46kqU
Spotify
bit.ly/4riqsWj
SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/WhXgCsx2ekbo...
🎧New Episode☘️
A conversation about secrecy, power, and the Uyghur crisis.
Dr. David O’Brien helps us pull back the curtain on China’s hidden diplomacy▶️
Apple
apple.co/3M46kqU
Spotify
bit.ly/4riqsWj
SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/WhXgCsx2ekbo...
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
@safeguarddefenders.bsky.social @iccl.bsky.social
🎧New Episode☘️
A conversation about secrecy, power, and the Uyghur crisis.
Dr. David O’Brien helps us pull back the curtain on China’s hidden diplomacy▶️
Apple
apple.co/3M46kqU
Spotify
bit.ly/4riqsWj
SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/WhXgCsx2ekbo...
🎧New Episode☘️
A conversation about secrecy, power, and the Uyghur crisis.
Dr. David O’Brien helps us pull back the curtain on China’s hidden diplomacy▶️
Apple
apple.co/3M46kqU
Spotify
bit.ly/4riqsWj
SoundCloud
on.soundcloud.com/WhXgCsx2ekbo...
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392,000 followers on X.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
392,000 followers on X.
She stood up to China. Now she’s exposing how her university caved in
Emails released to Laura Murphy reveal the full story of how her research into forced labour in China was blocked by Sheffield Hallam. The Sunday Times. November 23, 2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Emails released to Laura Murphy reveal the full story of how her research into forced labour in China was blocked by Sheffield Hallam. The Sunday Times. November 23, 2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
She stood up to China. Now she’s exposing how her university caved in
Emails released to the academic Laura Murphy reveal the full story of how her research into forced labour in China was blocked by Sheffield Hallam
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
She stood up to China. Now she’s exposing how her university caved in
Emails released to Laura Murphy reveal the full story of how her research into forced labour in China was blocked by Sheffield Hallam. The Sunday Times. November 23, 2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Emails released to Laura Murphy reveal the full story of how her research into forced labour in China was blocked by Sheffield Hallam. The Sunday Times. November 23, 2025
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
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Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
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Two months after Charlie Kirk's assassination, a government-backed campaign — blessed by top Republicans and driven by right‑wing influencers — has led to firings, suspensions and investigations of more than 600 people reut.rs/4pb4T8g
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Two months after Charlie Kirk's assassination, a government-backed campaign — blessed by top Republicans and driven by right‑wing influencers — has led to firings, suspensions and investigations of more than 600 people reut.rs/4pb4T8g
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WashPost editorial board: These distortions dishonor Khashoggi’s legacy, stand at odds with the facts and are beneath the office of the president. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | ‘Things happen’
Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
WashPost editorial board: These distortions dishonor Khashoggi’s legacy, stand at odds with the facts and are beneath the office of the president. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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2013: Wang Shuping on "What Happened to People who Spoke Out About HIV/AIDS in China"
王淑平：《那些在中国公开谈论艾滋病/艾滋病防治的人后来怎么样了》
gaodawei.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/2...
王淑平：《那些在中国公开谈论艾滋病/艾滋病防治的人后来怎么样了》
gaodawei.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/2...
2013: Dr. Wang Shuping on “What Happened to People who Spoke Out About HIV/AIDS in China”
My old friend Dr. Wang Shuping shared this article with me in 2013. With December 1st AIDS Day coming up again, I now share it here. For more background on China’s AIDS problems and it cover-…
gaodawei.wordpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
2013: Wang Shuping on "What Happened to People who Spoke Out About HIV/AIDS in China"
王淑平：《那些在中国公开谈论艾滋病/艾滋病防治的人后来怎么样了》
gaodawei.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/2...
王淑平：《那些在中国公开谈论艾滋病/艾滋病防治的人后来怎么样了》
gaodawei.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/2...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025.
Take action for Yalqun Rozi (China – Xinjiang).
Name: Yalqun Rozi. Occupation: Writer, Journalist, Editor, Publisher, Literary Critic. Situation: Imprisoned #YalqunRozi #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
Take action for Yalqun Rozi (China – Xinjiang).
Name: Yalqun Rozi. Occupation: Writer, Journalist, Editor, Publisher, Literary Critic. Situation: Imprisoned #YalqunRozi #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
Yalqun Rozi — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
www.pen-international.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025.
Take action for Yalqun Rozi (China – Xinjiang).
Name: Yalqun Rozi. Occupation: Writer, Journalist, Editor, Publisher, Literary Critic. Situation: Imprisoned #YalqunRozi #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
Take action for Yalqun Rozi (China – Xinjiang).
Name: Yalqun Rozi. Occupation: Writer, Journalist, Editor, Publisher, Literary Critic. Situation: Imprisoned #YalqunRozi #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
@kovrig.bsky.social: Wise words for other countries too.
Like #Sweden mindlessly de-icing China relations with its FM groveling in the Beijing imperial court right on the 10th anniversary of China's continuing kidnapping of our citizen #GuiMinhai, NOT brought home.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviF...
Like #Sweden mindlessly de-icing China relations with its FM groveling in the Beijing imperial court right on the 10th anniversary of China's continuing kidnapping of our citizen #GuiMinhai, NOT brought home.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviF...
Michael Kovrig: Why Canada Should Have No Illusions About China | TVO Today Live
YouTube video by TVO Today
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
@kovrig.bsky.social: Wise words for other countries too.
Like #Sweden mindlessly de-icing China relations with its FM groveling in the Beijing imperial court right on the 10th anniversary of China's continuing kidnapping of our citizen #GuiMinhai, NOT brought home.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviF...
Like #Sweden mindlessly de-icing China relations with its FM groveling in the Beijing imperial court right on the 10th anniversary of China's continuing kidnapping of our citizen #GuiMinhai, NOT brought home.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WviF...
Uyghur Forced Labour in Solar: From Awareness to Action.
Prof. Laura Murphy & Luke de Pulford |
Webinar from Stop Uyghur Genocide, 9 Oct 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mk...
Prof. Laura Murphy & Luke de Pulford |
Webinar from Stop Uyghur Genocide, 9 Oct 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mk...
Prof. Laura Murphy & Luke de Pulford | Uyghur Forced Labour in Solar: From Awareness to Action
YouTube video by Stop Uyghur Genocide
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Uyghur Forced Labour in Solar: From Awareness to Action.
Prof. Laura Murphy & Luke de Pulford |
Webinar from Stop Uyghur Genocide, 9 Oct 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mk...
Prof. Laura Murphy & Luke de Pulford |
Webinar from Stop Uyghur Genocide, 9 Oct 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mk...
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Today marks 6 years since the death of Waris Ababekri (shahit.biz/eng/3682), a well-known screenwriter and former student-movement leader. Detained in January 2019, he died of a heart attack shortly after release the same year.
He was 54.
He was 54.
Entry 3682: Waris Ababekri
Waris Ababekri was born in Urumqi. In 1985, he helped organize the “November Twelfth” student movement, and in 1987 - together with Dolkun Isa and Rushan Abbas - founded the Science and Culture Studen...
shahit.biz
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Today marks 6 years since the death of Waris Ababekri (shahit.biz/eng/3682), a well-known screenwriter and former student-movement leader. Detained in January 2019, he died of a heart attack shortly after release the same year.
He was 54.
He was 54.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
