About
Creator of Shahit.biz, who has been extensively documenting detentions in the Xinjiang Crisis.
Trustworthiness
- He’s very fair and trustworthy. He does not shy away from criticizing Uyghur activists for abusing data and news organizations from making claims that lack evidence.
- He criticized the New York Times for using the false statistic of 80% of IUDs in China being administered in Xinjiang.^[https://twitter.com/shahitbiz/status/1404179690076753921?s=20]
- He criticized the BBC for alleging systematic rape happens, based on 3 testimonies. There is no evidence for systematic rape in Xinjiang camps.
- Even China at a press conference quoted him because they believe it supports their narrative:
Recently, Bin ji’en, founder of “Xinjiang Victims Database”, posted on his “Facebook” account that he would stop the “Uygur Pulse” activity, stop receiving Uygur “testimony” videos and close his social network account. Bin ji’en said that the demands of Uygur people, which he spent a lot of energy to obtain, were repeatedly used by those who spread false information. They were busy with self attack and self harm instead of doing practical and useful work.
On May 25 this year, the South China Morning Post published an article saying that Bin ji’en and others believed that labeling the situation in Xinjiang as “genocide” had something to do with geopolitics because of the tension between the United States and China. Western media carried out “coverage” reports on it, and “Xinjiang human rights crisis” had been politicized. Bin ji’en said that the BBC’s report on “systematic rape in Xinjiang detention camp” lacks evidence. “You can’t write a news report based on the description of three witnesses, claiming that there was systematic rape, and not all of them are credible.” “If the media reports with terrifying headlines , rather than with the conclusive evidence provided to them, then they would undermine the original intention of recording evidence of human rights violations in a correct way. ”^[2021/06/20, The 11th Press Conference by Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Xinjiang-related Issues in Beijing]
