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YouTube Removed Videos That Uncovered China’s Persecution Of Uighur Muslims

Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights says it was documenting abuses in Xinjiang province

Credit: Alex Castro / The Verge

From TheVerge.com….

YouTube took down several videos from a human rights organization’s channel, which was attempting to document human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang province, for violating its anti-harassment policy, Reuters reported.

On June 15th, Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights said the Google-owned video platform disabled its channel entirely, telling the group it had received too many strikes against its channel for videos where people displayed identification cards showing they were related to missing Xinjiang residents. That apparently broke YouTube’s rule against displaying personal information, which led to the videos’ removal. The channel was restored three days later, according to Reuters.

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