Members of the Muslim Uyghur minority keep symbolically their hands tied with a rope as they demonstrate to ask for news of their relatives at Uskudar square in Istanbul on February 26, 2021.

Yasin Akgul
Members of the Muslim Uyghur minority keep symbolically their hands tied with a rope as they demonstrate to ask for news of their relatives at Uskudar square in Istanbul on February 26, 2021.

Human-rights advocates who spoke with the Register painted a picture of an emboldened Chinese regime, led by President Xi Jinping, that is bent on suppressing any and all dissent.