New camps are established around factories (for forced labor) but also around hospitals, where suspicious activities take place, perhaps connected with organ harvesting
by Leila Adilzhan
Where a medical center, a hospital, a factory once stood, there is now in Xinjiang’s Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture a concentration camp. Not that factories or medical facilities have disappeared. They have monstrously metastasized into so-called transformation through education camps that include inside of them either a factory or a medical center.
In the case of factories, inmates can be subjected there to slave labor without even have the inconvenience of transporting them. What happens inside the hospitals and medical centers is more mysterious. The medical facilities are surrounded by barbed wire, high fences, and high control towers, and no one is allowed to come near them, unless they are camp personnel (and not even all of them). Surveillance is carried out through cameras and guards at the same time. The windows are sealed with wooden planks or iron plates, so that no one can see what is happening inside, and people inside also cannot see outside. The bodies of those who die there are swiftly cremated. This raises the suspicion that was is really going there is organ harvesting, as many rumors would indicate.
Positive and negative changes have been introduced, and some passed, at the Commission on Laws stage. The text will go to the Senate’s floor on March 30.
by Massimo Introvigne
Until one month ago, articles on the draft French law against “separatism,” rechristened “Law for the respect of Republican principles,” were being published by mainline international media almost daily. With some colleagues, I had published a first “White Paper” emphasizing problems for religious liberty in the original text, and a second one suggesting that the law may offer a positive opportunity to go beyond the restrictive definition of “religion” prevailing in French case law.
Eventually, the objections by French and international scholars, after the French State Council had made similar remarks, were heard by the government, which amended the text by eliminating the most controversial provisions. The law was then approved in first reading by the National Assembly and sent to the Senate, where it has been discussed by the Commission on Laws. It will go to the Senate floor on March 30, and the discussion is scheduled to continue until April 8.
