NJ Teen’s TikTok Account Restored After She Posted About China

NEW JERSEY – A New Jersey teen went to social media this week to protest Muslim persecution in China – and she was banned for it before her account was restored.

Feroza Aziz says in the TikTok video, while using an eyelash curler, that she's "going to teach you guys how to get long lashes" before telling her viewers to put the tool down and "search up what’s happening in China" involving Muslims.

Aziz, who was identified by The Washington Post as a teenager from New Jersey, claims "they’re getting concentration camps, throwing innocent Muslims in there, separating their families from each other, kidnapping them, murdering them, raping them, forcing them to eat pork, forcing them to drink, forcing them to convert to different religions.”

"This is another Holocaust, yet no one is talking about it," she said. "Please be aware, please spread awareness.”

TikTok, which is owned by the China-based ByteDance, disabled access to Aziz’s account and removed the video on Wednesday, but then soon restored it after getting criticism and apologized.

"In this post, we want to clarify the timeline of events, apologize for an error and explain more about our moderation philosophy and the next steps our team will be taking in our continued commitment to our community," TikTok said.

Here is the video:

Aziz then went back to social media to say she plans to respond to TikTok, but then continued to speak about the treatment of Muslim Uighurs.

The U.S. government and human rights organizations estimate 1 million Muslim Uighurs, or 10 percent of the Uighur population in Xinjiang, western China, are locked up in concentration camps, NBC and nj.com reported.