CHINA-XINJIANG: COLLECTION OF DATA ON UYGHURS ABROAD

An article in Foreign Policy on March 2, 2018 claimed that as part of the campaign to monitor and control the Uighur diaspora, Chinese police are demanding that Uighurs living in France hand over personal information, photos, and identity documents — and in some cases, the personal information of their French spouses. Police officers from local public security bureaus in China have asked French Uighurs to send their home, school, and work addresses, photos, scans of their French or Chinese ID cards, and, in some cases, the ID cards of their spouses and scans of their marriage certificates if they were married in France. Chinese police have also reportedly contacted French Uighurs directly via phone or WeChat, or have paid visits to their family members in China, asking relatives to convey these demands, according to screenshots of WeChat conversations and a phone recording obtained by Foreign Policy. The Chinese Embassy did not respond to a request for comment. The French Embassy also did not respond.







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