Kodak deleted an Instagram post featuring the work of a photographer who criticized Uyghur suppression. Patrick Wack's images of Xinjiang, China, were deleted after blowback from Beijing supporters. Kodak apologized on WeChat, saying: "We will continue to respect the Chinese government." 10 Things in Politics: Get the latest political & economic news. Kodak deleted an Instagram post featuring photos from the Xinjiang region of China, where the government has been accused of human rights violations against the majority-Muslim Uyghur people, after blowback from Beijing supporters, according to The New York Times.
The post featured the work of French photographer Patrick Wack, who is releasing a book of images from his multiple trips to Xinjiang between 2016 and 2019.
In the deleted post, Wack described his images as a visual narrative of Xinjiang's "abrupt descent into an Orwellian dystopia," The Times reports.
China has been accused of cracking down on the Uyghur people by forcing them into re-education camps , surveilling them , controlling birth rates , destroying mosques and shrines , and supporting settlement in Xinjiang of China's majority race, the Han.

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