The tweet, which read Uighur women were no longer “baby-making machines,” was shared on January 7
Twitter has temporarily locked the official account for the Chinese Embassy to the U.S. after a post that glorified Beijing's policies in the western region of Xinjiang, where critics say China is engaged in the forced sterilization of minority Uighur women.
The tweet, which read Uighur women were no longer “baby-making machines,” was shared on January 7, but wasn’t taken down by Twitter until more than 24 hours later. It has been replaced by a label saying, “This tweet is no longer available.” Twitter requires the account owner to manually delete the post in order to regain access to the account.
“We have taken action on this Tweet for violating our policy against dehumanization,” a Twitter spokesman said in a statement. Twitter prohibits the “dehumanization of a group of people based on their religion, caste, age, disability, serious disease, national origin, race, or ethnicity.”
Chinese state media had earlier called Twitter’s decision to delete the tweet “hypocrisy.”
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