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- globalnews@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
A Swedish court on Wednesday ordered the detention of a man suspected of spying on ethnic Uyghurs for China, Sweden’s prosecution authority said on Wednesday.
The prosecution authority declined to give more detail on the case or whether it concerned the small population of Uyghurs living in Sweden or groups elsewhere.
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The man, whose nationality was also not disclosed, is in custody in the Swedish capital, court documents showed.
“The man is suspected of having illegally collected information and intelligence on people in the Uyghur environment on behalf of the Chinese intelligence service,” Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said in a statement earlier on Wednesday.
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Rights groups accuse Beijing of widespread abuses of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority group of about 10 million people who live in China’s far western Xinjiang region.
Beijing denies any abuse and has accused Western countries of interference and peddling lies.
In 2022, a landmark United Nations report said that China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity.
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I am sorry, but I don’t understand what you want to say. Who ruins what?
People from autocratic countries ruining democracy for people in democratic countries.
But why? Autocratic regimes try to ruin democracies, but people fleeing their autocracies just want freedom (and often try to save their lives), they don’t ruin nothing imo.
I’m not saying that they all do (I’m one of them), but that the ones that do (so informants and the like, like the man in the article) are scum of the Earth.
Ah, okay. No I’ve got it. Yeah, that’s bad. Thanks for clarification.