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After 10 years living in France, I returned to China to sign some papers and I was locked up. For the next two years, I was systematically dehumanised, humiliated and brainwashedThe man on the phone said he worked for the oil company, “In accounting, a…
Read MorePost claimed women in Xinjiang had been ‘emancipated’ as a result of China’s claimed efforts to eradicate extremismTwitter has removed a post by China’s US embassy claiming that Uighur women have been “emancipated” from extremism and were no longer “ba…
Read MoreExclusive: More than 70 Harvard schools and student organisations sign open letter urging US state department to take stronger action over Ekpar Asat The US government must do more to demand China release a Uighur man who was jailed for 15 years after …
Read MoreDeal set to anger incoming Biden administration in US, which demanded to be consulted before deal went aheadChina and the EU appear to have resolved their differences over protecting labour rights in China and are set to sign a long-delayed investment …
Read MoreCritic of UK decision to ban Huawei from 5G networks to be replaced by China’s vice-foreign ministerChina’s long-serving envoy to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, a staunch defender of closer UK-China economic ties and the imposition of new security laws in Hong…
Read MoreOsborne-era hopes for trade have been eclipsed by worries over national security and human rights abusesIn 2003, the Cabinet Office decided to allow the Chinese state-backed Huawei telecommunications network to start supplying BT for the first time. No…
Read MoreRahima Mahmut and Rose Harvie add their voices to that of the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, in urging readers to take action to put pressure on China The moving call to arms by the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, challenges us all to speak out against what…
Read MoreForced labour much more widespread than initially thought in China region that supplies a fifth of the world’s cottonMore than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang have been coerced into picking cotton, on a scale far greater t…
Read MoreGovernment says deal allowing Beijing officials to interrogate Chinese nationals was standard ‘technical arrangement’The Swiss government has strongly rejected accusations that a deal allowing Chinese officials to enter Switzerland and interrogate Chin…
Read MoreCourt expected to rule there is still insufficient evidence against China, but file to be kept openThe International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked for more evidence before it will be willing to open an investigation into claims of genocide against Uig…
Read MoreSadam Abudusalam met his three-year-old son for the first time when he landed in SydneyAn Australian Uighur man whose family was under house arrest in China has been reunited with his wife, and met his three-year-old son for the first time, after they …
Read MoreChinese authorities using a data-driven ‘predictive policing’ network to intern people from Muslim minoritiesA rare leak of a prisoner list from a Chinese internment camp shows how a government data programme targets Muslim minorities for detention ove…
Read MoreChina’s crackdown in Xinjiang has put Uighur poetry on the verge of extinction, leaving the diaspora stfighting to keep it aliveUighur poetry is heir to a thousand-year tradition, stretching back to works like the eleventh-century Wisdom of Royal Glory…
Read MoreBeijing says pontiff’s remarks have ‘no factual basis’ despite evidence a million of the Muslim minority group are being held in campsChina has dismissed criticism of its treatment of Uighurs in a new book by Pope Francis in which he describes the “per…
Read MoreFrancis mentions plight of Muslim minority in China, alongside Rohingya and Yazidi, in new bookPope Francis has for the first time called China’s Muslim Uighurs a “persecuted” people, something human rights activists have been urging him to do for year…
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