US Teen Blocked on TikTok Accuses Video App of ‘Covering Up’ Truth

US Teen Blocked on TikTok Accuses Video App of ‘Covering Up’ Truth
U.S. teen Feroza Aziz informs viewers about the Chinese Communist Party's detention of at least 1 million Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, in a video on TikTok, which was later censored. Courtesy of Feroza Aziz/Twitter
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The U.S. teenager whose TikTok account was suspended after she posted videos calling out the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its oppression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has accused the Beijing-based company behind the video-sharing app of “covering up” the truth.

In a now-viral three-part video cleverly disguised as a tutorial on how to curl eyelashes, Feroza Aziz, a 17-year-old high school junior in New Jersey, tells her viewers to “spread awareness” of the human rights abuses in China’s troubled northwestern region, where it is estimated at least one million Uyghurs are being held in the region’s network of mass internment camps.

Isabel van Brugen
Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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