Feroza Aziz Posts A TikTok Video About Uyghur Muslims, Making The Chinese Tech Giant VERY Nervous

Feroza Aziz, 17-year-old Muslim, is a social rights activist residing in the US. Her TikTok account was suspended by the tech company right after she added a three-part video starting as a beauty tutorial and ending up being an awareness video about the concentration camps in China.

Feroza started her video by telling her followers how to get big lashes using a curler and suddenly shifted gears to the plight of Uyghur Muslims in Chinese detention camps.

This is what Feroza said in the video that had TikTok grandly nervous:

“So the first thing you need to do is to grab your eyelash curler, curl your lashes, obviously. Then you’re gonna put them down and use your phone that you’re using right now to search up what’s happening in China.”

Here’s the three-part video in which Feroza talks about Uyghurian Muslims.

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A post shared by Feroza Aziz🧿 (@ferozzaaa) on Nov 25, 2019 at 2:25pm PST

Her video got 1.6 million views but soon it was removed and her account suspended.

According to Eric Han, head of TikTok’s US content-moderation team, it was due to “human moderation error” and the account has been restored as it does not violate any guidelines.

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TikTok issued a public apology and said that her account was suspended because of a satirical video that she had uploaded previously but Feroza doesn’t think so.

UPDATE: tik tok has issued a public apology and gave me my account back. Do I believe they took it away because of a unrelated satirical video that was deleted on a previous deleted account of mine? Right after I finished posting a 3 part video about the Uyghurs? No. pic.twitter.com/ehUpSJiyy1

— Feroza Aziz (@ferozaazizz) November 27, 2019

Soon after Feroza gave an interview to the BBC.

Feroza gave an interview to BBC implying quite explicitly that the suspension of her account by the Chinese tech giant was linked to the video in which she had posted about the human rights violations happening in Chinese detention centers.

There was a strong backlash after the news spread on social media.

This girl pointed out that it was a “Big test case for TikTok & censorship.”

Big test case for TikTok & censorship. The person who made the viral eyelash curling video that was actually about China's prison camps for Muslims was blocked from accessing TikTok on her device. But the video is still up: https://t.co/fa8mjsJ84x

— Sarah Frier (@sarahfrier) November 26, 2019

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People blamed the Chinese government for the suspension of her account.

thank you very much for spreading the truth. Tiktok is a Chinese Gov controlled app which is probably the number one social media across the world. That’s scary! What if Chinese Gov get all your info and send people harass you if you speak out against them at any time?

— Democracy_Is_Air (@George03974714) November 26, 2019

China is afraid of people knowing & telling the truth.
After decades of governance of #CCP in China, they can only maintain the stability by strict monitor & control. So the people can live in a delusion bubble!
Now, they never change their bidding and Tiktok is just one of it.

— tckc612 (@tckc612) November 28, 2019

Feroza said that this incident won’t make her stop talking about the human rights violations against Muslims around the world.

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