China’s internment camps under lens
In a face-off with Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on law and order, chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday recalled SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s “boys will be boys” remark on rape. During zero hour, Yadav referred to crimes against women in Prayagraj, Chandauli, Siddharthnagar and Lalitpur, claiming maximum crimes against women were committed in UP. Responding to him, Adityanath said, “This is the government of the BJP. Here it’s not said that boys will be boys.” Claiming a reduction in crime under his government, Adityanath said that property worth over ₹2,000 crore of criminals was confiscated, adding, “Whether it is a matter of women’s safety or the safety of 25 crore citizens, all these are on a priority.”
Days after a woman was killed by a leopard in Uttarakhand’s
Pauri Garhwal district, irate villagers on Tuesday burnt alive a leopard captured by forest officials, people aware of the matter said. Nityanand Pandey, Garhwal region conservator of forests (CF) said a woman was killed by a leopard in Saplodi village on May 15, following which forest officials placed a cage there to catch the animal. “On Tuesday morning, the forest officials got information that a leopard had been caught in the cage. But when they went there, the angry villagers had already burnt the leopard alive,” Pandey said. It was not immediately clear whether the leopard killed was the same as the one involved in the fatal attack on May 15. Pandey said the leopard’s body was taken into possession by forest officials and was sent for post-mortem. “After the post-mortem result is received, we will lodge an FIR against the villagers who took law and order into their own hands,” he said.
A leak of thousands of photos and official documents from China’s Xinjiang has shed new light on the violent methods used to enforce mass internment in the region, researchers said Tuesday. The files, obtained by academic Adrian Zenz, were published as UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet begins a long-awaited and controversial trip to Xinjiang. Activists say Chinese authorities detained over one million Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in detention centres and prisons, which Beijing has defended as training centres. But the photographs and documents — sent to Zenz by an anonymous source — add to evidence that the mass internments weren’t voluntary, with leaked documents showing top leaders including President Xi Jinping calling for a forceful crackdown.