カテゴリー: Uyghurs
Michelle Bachelet’s report on alleged rights abuses in China’s Uyghur region remains under wraps despite recent six-day tourPressure to release a long-awaited Xinjiang report is mounting on the UN’s rights head, as her recent six-day visit to China lef…
Analysis: It is a worrying sign that, amid the talk of a ‘new cold war’, even the UN is unable to help bridge the divideUN rights chief Michelle Bachelet’s six-day trip to China began with some controversy, and ended with even more. On Saturday, wester…
US secretary of state says conditions imposed on Michelle Bachelet prevented independent assessment of abuses against Uyghurs, including genocide US secretary of state Antony Blinken has expressed concern over China’s “efforts to restrict and manipula…
Leader warns against using issue as ‘excuse to interfere in internal affairs of other countries’ as Michelle Bachelet goes to XinjiangChina’s leader, Xi Jinping, has spoken with the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, as she visited the Xinjiang …
Documents detailing shoot-to-kill policy for people who try to escape published as UN human rights chief visits regionA new trove of hacked Chinese police photographs and documents shedding light on the human toll of Beijing’s treatment of its Uyghur m…
Michelle Bachelet begins trip amid fears that authorities will use Covid restrictions as cover to limit her accessChina has said the UN rights chief’s visit to the country this week will be conducted in a “closed loop” as previously agreed with the UN,…
Exclusive: Politicians accuse China of organising a ‘Potemkin-style tour’ for Michelle BacheletA group of 40 politicians from 18 countries have told the UN high commissioner for human rights that she risks causing lasting damage to the credibility of h…
One in 25 people sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges in Konasheher, Xinjiang province, where Communist party represses Muslim minorityNearly one in 25 people in a county of the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terr…
Traces in shirts and T-shirts appear to contradict German firms’ promises to revise supply chainsResearchers say they have found traces of Xinjiang cotton in shirts and T-shirts made by Adidas, Puma and Hugo Boss, appearing to contradict the German clo…
Tory MPs want ministers to follow health bill amendment banning goods from regions with ‘risk of genocide’Ministers are looking “sympathetically” at plans to stop the government buying health goods made in China’s Xinjiang province when the health and …
Michelle Bachelet’s announcement comes as 192 groups call for release of long-postponed report into regionThe UN rights chief has announced that she will make a long-delayed visit to China in May, including to Xinjiang, where activists and western lawm…
Lawyers say delay in case against three defendants including a Briton is to avoid embarrassing China The trial in Greece of activists who protested against Beijing holding the Winter Olympics has been postponed amid accusations that proceedings were de…
The NBA has owned the inside track on the sports world’s most coveted growth market, with operations worth about $5bnThe US state department has described the Uyghur human rights issue as a genocide and the largest-scale detention of an ethno-religious…
Watchdog’s latest report argues autocrats around the world are getting desperate as opponents form coalitions to challenge themIncreasingly repressive and violent acts against civilian protests by autocratic leaders and military regimes around the worl…