China’s War on Dissidents Spreads Online

30 years after Tiananmen Square, Tibetans and Uyghurs activists are being targeted via chat apps and the internet

A demonstrator at a protest against China’s human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims. Credit: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Rukiye Turdush was studying history in Shanghai in 1992 when she came across some Russian history books. They told a very different story about her people: the Uyghurs of what she calls East Turkestan, and…