darūn-i urdūgāh'hā: Persian 1401

Novel forms of state violence and colonialism have been evident for years in China's vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have disappeared into labor camps and related factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and more than a decade of research, Darren Byler, a leading expert on the Uyghur community and China's surveillance systems describes how the vast network of technology provided by private companies discovers "Facial surveillance, voice recognition, smartphone data" have allowed governments and companies to blacklist millions of Uyghurs for their religious and cultural practices since 2017. Detainees were charged with "pre-crimes," which sometimes only involve installing social media apps. They are put in camps for "education" - forced to praise the Chinese government, renounce Islam, deny families, and work in factories. Byler travels to Xinjiang to show how the convenience of smartphones has doomed the Uyghurs, showing that the technology is used around the world and sold by tech companies from Beijing to Seattle, creating new forms of unfreedom. produces for vulnerable people.