beijing residents of a city in chinas far west xinjiang region say they are experiencing hunger forced quarantines and dwindling supplies of medicine and daily necessities after more than 40 days in a virus lockdownhundreds of posts from ghulja riveted users of chinese social media last week with residents sharing videos of empty fridges feverish children and people screaming from their windowsread alsostrapped to tiger chair raped drugged damning un report reveals how china tortured abused uighurs in xinjiangthe united nations on wednesday released its longawaited report about the horrific human rights abuses in chinas xinjiang region citing possible crimes against humanity but stopping short of calling it genocidethe report detailed a string of rights violations against uighurs and other muslimwho says chinas zerocovid strategy unsustainablegeneva chinas flagship zerocovid strategy to defeat the pandemic is unsustainable the world health organization said tuesday adding that it had told beijing so and called for a policy shift china has imposed draconian measures trapping most of shanghais 25 million people at home for weeks aswhy chinas zerocovid lockdowns are indias big opportunityindian manufacturing has a huge chinamade opportunity but its open for only a brief periodthe dire conditions and food shortages are reminiscent of a harsh lockdown in shanghai this spring when thousands of residents posted online complaining they were delivered rotting vegetables or denied critical medical carebut unlike in shanghai a glittering cosmopolitan metropolis of 20 million people and home to many foreigners the harsh lockdowns in smaller cities such as ghulja have received less attentionas more infectious variants of the coronavirus creep into china flareups have become increasingly common under chinas zerocovid strategy tens of millions or people are experiencing rolling lockdowns paralyzing the economy and making travel uncertainthe lockdown in ghulja is also evoking fears of police brutality among the uighurs the turkic ethnic group native to xinjiang for years the region has been the target of a sweeping security crackdown ensnaring huge numbers of uighurs and other largely muslim minorities in a vast network of camps and prisons an earlier lockdown in xinjiang was particularly tough with forced medication arrests and residents being hosed down with disinfectantyasinuf a uighur studying at a university in europe said his motherinlaw sent fearful voice messages this weekend saying she was being forced into centralized quarantine because of a mild cough the officers coming for her reminded her she said of the time her husband was taken to a camp for over two yearsits judgement day she sighed in an audio recording reviewed by the associated press we dont know whats going to happen this time all we can do now is to trust our creatorfood has been in short supply yasinuf said his parents told him they were running low on food supplies despite having stocked up before the lockdown with no deliveries and barred from using their backyard ovens for fear of spreading the virus his parents have been surviving on uncooked dough made of flour water and salt yasinuf declined