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Magnus Fiskesjö
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I teach Anthropology & Asian studies @ Cornell University. Formerly Director, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, in Stockholm; Cultural Attaché, Swedish Embassy in Beijing; 2nd secretary Swedish embassy in Tokyo. Views my own.
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · Sep 16
Updated bibliography on the Chinese government's mass atrocities against #Uyghur, #Kazakh & other peoples in #EastTurkistan/#Xinjiang since 2017:

uhrp.org/bibliography/

Now updated to: SEPT. 15, 2025.
Updates posted periodically.
Free to use.
Send me missing items! Thanks.
Bibliography - Uyghur Human Rights Project
For an extensive bibliography of many of the relevant new reports and academic works on the Uyghur issue, please see below or download the document. Compiled by Magnus Fiskesjö [[email protected]]. Las...
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无国界记者 - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) @rsf-chinese.bsky.social · 16h
#中国： 瑞典出版人桂民海于十年前在泰国遭中国特工劫持。过去五年来，我们始终未能获知其处境或下落。无国界记者率领90个非政府组织所组成联盟，再次呼吁当局将他释放。他不应在牢中多待任何一秒。 #释放桂民海

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China: 90 NGOs, led by RSF, demand the release of Gui Minhai on the 10th anniversary of his kidnapping
A coalition of 90 press freedom and human rights NGOs, led by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), has called for the release of Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, founder of the Hong Kong-based publishing hou...
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Carl Heath @carlheath.se · 9h
Anna-Karin Hatts avgång visar att hat och hot mot förtroendevalda är ett strukturellt problem. Plattformars algoritmer belönar konflikt. Vi kan inte lägga ansvaret på individen att stå emot strukturen. Dags att förändra den.

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En tanke om en avgång - när strukturen formar hatet
Anna-Karin Hatt avgick idag som partiledare för Centerpartiet. Efter fem månader konstaterar hon att hatet och hoten varit värre än hon kunde föreställa sig, att det kryper under huden…
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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 1d
At @thewirechina.bsky.social, @eliotchen.bsky.social talks with @lauratmurphy.bsky.social about her research on supply chains and forced labor in Xinjiang, and how the Entity List can be a collaboration between academics and the US government.
Laura Murphy on Enforcing America’s Ban on Uyghur Forced Labor - The Wire China
The academic talks about why governments need to redouble their efforts to keep products made using forced labor in Xinjiang off store shelves.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d
⚡️ Chinese shipments of fiber-optic cable to Russia up nearly tenfold, WP reports.

Exports of fiber-optic cable rose nearly tenfold from July to August after record highs in May and June, and lithium-ion battery shipments also increased over the summer.
(9) Ukraine war latest updates: A new Tomahawk missile launcher just dropped
Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates. U.S. defense company Oshkosh Defense on Oct. 13 revealed a new mobile, ground-based missile launcher capable of ...
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 1d
Manifestation för Gui Minhais frihet utanför Kinas ambassad i Stockholm, Lidovägen 8 i Stockholm, fredag 17 oktober kl 12.00

Vi glömmer inte Gui Minhai! Därför anordnas en manifestation för Gui Minhais frihet utanför Kinas ambassad,

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Manifestation för Gui Minhais frihet utanför Kinas ambassad i Stockholm fredagen 17 oktober kl 12.00 Den 17 oktober är det tio sedan som den svenske poeten och förläggaren Gui Minhai...
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 1d
10 years this Friday! of the outrageous kidnapping of Gui Minhai from Thailand & his incomunicado detention in China:

China: End Decade-long Disappearance of Swedish Publisher Gui Minhai. Case emblematic of Beijing’s threat to free expression in China, globally.
www.nchrd.org/2025/10/chin...
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 1d
Some interpretations suggest it's not about those people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T8j...
What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains
YouTube video by Dr Russell Razzaque
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 2d
Infrastructure is political. We are waking up late.

Decommission the Chinese systems in Norway!

And in Sweden, re-nationalise the train systems we sold to China.
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 3d
🚨Amazing:
🇳🇴 Norway’s drone detection system protecting Oslo Airport comes from 🇨🇳 Chinese company DJI Aeroscope, with system updates coming directly from DJI in China.

Unexpectedly that 🇨🇳 system was down for a full 19h from the evening of September 22nd, which is why the airport had to be closed.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 2d
The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand. In full: buff.ly/UDWB6Cy
EU parliament urges China to release Swedish bookseller, 10 years on
The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand.
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 3d
Fifth Digital Appeal to Free Gui Minhai.

Take part in the digital manifestation on October 17 which marks 10 years since Swedish publisher Gui Minhai was kidnapped and imprisoned in China.

Join in standing up for him: internationalpublishers.org/fifth-digita...
Fifth Digital Appeal to Free Gui Minhai – International Publishers Association
This year marks ten years since the Swedish publisher Gui Minhai was imprisoned in China. Join us in standing up for him — and for imprisoned publishers around the world — by taking part in the Swedis...
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 3d
European Parliament voted with a massive majority (546-3) to demand China must liberate our citizen #GuiMinhai.

See the adopted resoution: www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...
Texts adopted - 10th anniversary of the detention of jailed Swedish publisher Gui Minhai in China - Thursday, 9 October 2025
www.europarl.europa.eu
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Dr Diana T. Kudaibergen @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social · 20d
New episode of YurtJurt podcast on decoloniality! with Intizor! A multi-disciplinary Uyghur artist!

Tune in here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 3d
Also delighted that our Swedish MEPs delegates are united on this demand to China. Left, right, center don't matter here.
We all demand China release our citizen #GuiMinhai.
It has been ten years. That's ten years too much. Do it now!
#freeguiminhai
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 3d
EU Parliament votes 546-3 demanding #China frees our citizen #guiminhai whom they have detained for 10 years now.
Shame on China, and, shame on the absentee MEPs and the 3 naysayers who apparently like torture. But despite the baddies, our broad unity sends a strong signal to China. Enough!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4d
United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, flanked by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, get loudly booed in Tel Aviv, Israel as they praise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4d
💔🕯️ Update: Konstiantynivka. Russian bomb took the lives of a 4-year-old girl and a priest who tried to hide the child in a church.
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 4d
The deportation of pro-democracy dissidents to their home countries is a major reversal of years of U.S. policymaking on a topic that had bipartisan support.
Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression
Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 4d
Could be Putin is on drugs. High on war
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 13d
Wind of Change Research Group assesses with high confidence that Vladimir Putin was drunk at the Valdai Club.
Appearing disheveled, he deviated markedly from his characteristic poise, and was undisciplined enough to speak about and show fear of Tomahawk missiles.
Putin claims to not drink alcohol.
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 4d
TRUE Scenes from war-torn Portland

#ShowMeYourHellhole

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD_5...
#ShowMeYourHellhole TRUE Scenes for Jimmy from Portland, OR!!
YouTube video by Knowledge Workings Theater
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 5d
It's tiresome to see all the Americans trying to make the Nobel Peace Prize about US domestic politics.

And yo, that prize is not given by "Norway."
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 5d
Is the US turning into China now for real?

Declare the reality you would like to be, regardless of what it is, whether it is yours to claim, and making a fool of yourself.

Classic Chinese Communist partyspeak

The next step would be to prohibit people from pointing out it doesn't work like that
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 8d
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7d
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Magnus Fiskesjö @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social · 8d
2022, the report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights #OHCHR
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