カテゴリー: Uyghurs
SenseTime raised $512m from non-US investors and recently debuted on the Hong Kong stock exchangeSenseTime, China’s largest facial recognition startup, has come under increasing scrutiny by the US government for its alleged role in the surveillance of …
Elon Musk and Tesla must consider human rights in the Chinese region or risk being complicit, says Human Rights WatchTesla has opened a new showroom in the capital of Xinjiang, a region at the heart of years-long campaign by Chinese authorities of repr…
It is not known if Chen Quanguo’s replacement by Guangdong governor Ma Xingrui signals fresh approachChina has replaced the Communist party official widely associated with a security crackdown targeting ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims in the far-west …
Chinese social media users call for boycott of US chip maker after it issues directive to suppliers over human rights concernsIntel, the US computer chip maker, is facing a backlash from China after telling its suppliers not to source products or labou…
Almas Nizamidin, whose wife has been sentenced to seven years in prison in Xinjiang, says a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics is not enoughWhat Almas Nizamidin knows of his wife’s arrest and disappearance is second-hand: the harried reports relayed by…
US lawmakers have ramped up pressure on China in a bid to censure the country’s treatment of the Muslim minorityThe United States has unleashed a volley of actions to censure China’s treatment of the Uyghur minority, with lawmakers voting to curb trade…
Independent report says crimes include torture and the systematic suppression of birthsUyghur people living in Xinjiang province in China have been subjected to unconscionable crimes against humanity directed by the Chinese state that amount to an act …
Content was often ‘embarrassingly’ produced and pumped out via repurposed accounts, analysts sayTwitter has shut down thousands of state-linked accounts in China that seek to counter evidence of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as part of what experts …
Listing properties on land owned by XPCC, which has been linked to human rights abuses, risks breaching US regulationsAirbnb has reportedly listed more than a dozen properties on land owned by the Xinjiang paramilitary corporation, which has been sanct…
Secret documents urge population control, mass round-ups and punishment of UyghursExcerpts from previously unpublished documents directly linking China’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang province to speeches by the Chinese l…
Official newspaper calls Truss ‘radical populist’ after her alleged row with Caroline Wilson over UK’s hard lineAn official Chinese newspaper has weighed in on an alleged spat between the British foreign secretary and the UK’s ambassador to China, sugg…
Uyghur representatives file third attempt to have international criminal court investigate ChinaChinese officials are operating in foreign countries to get Uyghurs deported back to China by creating visa problems and coercing them into becoming informa…
Counter-meeting attendees urge leaders not to let China off hook over human rights abuses in return for climate cooperationLegislators from around the world have gathered on the fringes of the G20 summit in Rome to protest against the presence of the C…
Authorities using predictive policing and human surveillance on Muslims in Xinjiang, thinktank saysAuthorities in the Chinese region of Xinjiang are using predictive policing and human surveillance to gather “micro clues” about Uyghurs and empower neig…
Biden administration announces plan after meeting between US national security adviser and China’s top diplomat The US president, Joe Biden, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are planning to meet by video link before the end of the year, a senio…