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US Teen's TikTok Video on Xinjiang Goes Viral

Agence France-Presse

   BEIJING - A TikTok post by a young woman, pretending to give eyelash
   curling advice while actually condemning China's crackdown on Muslims
   in Xinjiang, has gone viral on the Chinese-owned app that has been
   accused of censoring anti-Beijing content.

   The clip by US teen Feroza Aziz, who describes herself as "17 Just a
   Muslim", had millions of views across several social media platforms by
   Wednesday.

   But Aziz said she has been blocked from posting on the hugely popular
   video platform TikTok for a month after uploading Sunday's clip
   slamming China, a claim disputed by the app.

     Part three to getting longer lashes [1]#tiktok [2]#muslims
     [3]#muslimmemes [4]#Uyghurmuslims [5]#freepalestine
     [6]pic.twitter.com/OoFpDpYPvj
     -- feroza.x (@x_feroza) [7]November 25, 2019

   Human rights groups and outside experts say more than one million
   Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been rounded up in a
   network of internment camps across the fractious region of Xinjiang.

   China, after initially denying the camps existed, describes them as
   vocational schools aimed at dampening the allure of Islamist extremism
   and violence through education and job training.

   Aziz starts her video telling viewers: "The first thing you need to do
   is grab your lash curler."
   

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