カテゴリー: Uighurs
Independent Rex Patrick moves after similar parliamentary motions passed in Canada and the NetherlandsAn Australian senator will seek support from fellow upper house members to recognise China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority as genocide, afte…
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Fleeing to Kyrgyzstan in the 1960s, communities established mosques and villages but the local leaders, or dzhigit-beshchis, are a dying breedDzhigit-beshchi is the name Uighur people in Kyrgyzstan give to the leader they elect for their mahallah – or …
Chinese newspaper said countries that boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over treatment of Uighurs would face retaliationThe Liberal Democrats have warned China against “international bullying” after a call by UK MPs for countries to boycott the 2022…
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey and Labour MP Chris Bryant urge officials and athletes to protest against oppression of Uighur communitiesSenior political figures have called for British athletes to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to…
State department says ‘atrocities’ against detained Uighur and Muslim women in region must be ‘met with serious consequences’The United States is “deeply disturbed” by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for et…
UK community speaks out in effort to pressure government to take stronger stanceLeading figures in the UK Jewish community are using Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January to focus on the persecution of Uighur Muslims, saying Jews have the “moral authori…
European commission will come under fire over agreement that is already causing tensions with USTransatlantic tensions over how to handle China will come into the open next week when MEPs condemn the European commission for rushing to sign a controvers…
Defeated measure aimed to give high court more power to protect minorities such as China’s UighursThe government has narrowly defeated a move requiring the government to reconsider any trade deal with a country found by the high court to be committing …
Outgoing secretary of state imposes new sanctions on BeijingOfficials say 1m minorities in Xinjiang have been imprisonedThe US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has declared that China is committing “ongoing” genocide against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang …
John Morrison and Sam Watson on Dominic Raab’s commitment to fine businesses over modern-day slavery in supply chainsThe commitment made by Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, to strengthen businesses’ supply chain requirements under the Modern Slaver…
Activists will write to companies in bid to persuade them to use their influence with Chinese governmentCampaigners fighting against the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China are to target private companies sponsoring the Beijing Winter Olympics in an…
High court could rule on whether Uighur people are suffering genocide in China if amendment passesThe Foreign Office was facing a battle to stave off a parliamentary defeat after the Board of Deputies of British Jews said it was backing calls for the B…
Human Rights Watch lists persecutions in Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet and Hong Kong but notes new willingness to condemn BeijingChina is in the midst of its darkest period for human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre, Human Rights Watch has said i…
Foreign secretary sets out measures to ensure UK companies cannot profit from forced labour in XinjiangChina’s treatment of the Uighur people amounts to torture, the British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said as he set out measures designed to e…