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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Uighur Muslims Around the World Protest China's Aggressive Security Crackdown [Watch (HLS stream): Uighur Muslims Around the World Protest China's Aggressive Security Crackdown](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/qqM9yPJl.m3u8) (1:27)  _Published 2018-03-16. Members of the Uighur Muslim ethnic group held demonstrations in cities around the world to protest a sweeping Chinese surveillance and security campaign that has sent thousands of their people into detention and political indoctrination centers._ --- Jul 27, 2023 11:39 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [China Forces Birth Control on Uighurs to Suppress Population](/video/beAnfIvU/) ### China Forces Birth Control on Uighurs to Suppress Population [Pompeo Calls China's Treatment of Uighurs the 'Stain of the Century'](/video/38zt1oUy/) ### Pompeo Calls China's Treatment of Uighurs the 'Stain of the Century' [Militants From China’s Uighur Minority Plead Allegiance to ISIS](/video/uHBAUNn4/) ### Militants From China’s Uighur Minority Plead Allegiance to ISIS --- ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Would you like a flyer that talks about Rohingyas? Thank you. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Basically in these camps they are forced to denounce Islam, adopt atheism, and then do things. To praise the Chinese state. And they wake up in the morning. Do a flag raising ceremony. Have strict procedures. And the conditions in these camps are overcrowded. International community honestly really doesn't know anything about us. And we're basically another Tibet, another Palestine. And there are millions of us and we're basically crying for help. [ INAUDIBLE ] Now China built a lot of concentration camps. About half a million people they detained for no reason. And most people here, we cuoldn't talk to our families back in China because they're afraid if they talk to us they're gonna get arrested. They want to destroy us. As a people. Now you're not allowed to speak our own language at school and we're not allowed to practice our cultures. We're not allowed to practice our religions. 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