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07-19-2022, 04:08 AM
A last-minute booking, a furtive cab ride and a spy in the window. For the past year, Paul Mozur has been investigating the story of a son determined to free his mother from a repressive system of detention and surveillance in western China. In doing so, he found a crack in China’s surveillance state — and a mother on her deathbed in Xinjiang.
Today, we hear from the man’s mother for the first time.
Guest: Paul Mozur (https://www.nytimes.com/by/paul-mozur), a technology reporter for The New York Times based in Shanghai, spoke with Ferkat Jawdat, a Uighur who is an American citizen and lives in Virginia, and his mother in Xinjiang, China. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
Background reading:
The Chinese authorities are using a vast secret system of facial recognition technology to control the Uighurs (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html), a largely Muslim minority in western China. The government may also be taking citizens’ DNA (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html) without consent to enhance the system.
“We must be as harsh as them, and show absolutely no mercy.” Leaked documents reveal (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html) how the Chinese authorities orchestrated the crackdown on one million or more ethnic Uighurs.
If you missed our previous interviews with Mr. Jawdat, here are Part 1 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/podcasts/the-daily/china-xinjiang-uighur-detention.html) and Part 2 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/podcasts/the-daily/china-uighurs-internment-camps-surveillance.html).
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)
Today, we hear from the man’s mother for the first time.
Guest: Paul Mozur (https://www.nytimes.com/by/paul-mozur), a technology reporter for The New York Times based in Shanghai, spoke with Ferkat Jawdat, a Uighur who is an American citizen and lives in Virginia, and his mother in Xinjiang, China. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.
Background reading:
The Chinese authorities are using a vast secret system of facial recognition technology to control the Uighurs (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html), a largely Muslim minority in western China. The government may also be taking citizens’ DNA (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/china-dna-uighurs-xinjiang.html) without consent to enhance the system.
“We must be as harsh as them, and show absolutely no mercy.” Leaked documents reveal (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html) how the Chinese authorities orchestrated the crackdown on one million or more ethnic Uighurs.
If you missed our previous interviews with Mr. Jawdat, here are Part 1 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/podcasts/the-daily/china-xinjiang-uighur-detention.html) and Part 2 (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/podcasts/the-daily/china-uighurs-internment-camps-surveillance.html).
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)