カテゴリー: Uighurs
‘Chance should not be squandered’ to bring Chinese government to justice, letter statesThe chief prosecutor of the international criminal court has been urged by an international alliance of parliamentarians to accept a complaint alleging genocide by C…
State department says ‘no credible’ evidence the East Turkestan Islamic Movement exists The United States has removed from its list of terror groups a shadowy faction regularly blamed by China to justify its harsh crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinji…
More than 180 cases traced to garment factory where Uighurs must take up work placementsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina’s largest coronavirus outbreak in months appears to have emerged in a factory in Xinjiang linked t…
Republican senator John Cornyn says resolution ‘is the first step toward holding China accountable for their monstrous actions’US senators have sought to declare that China is committing genocide against Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking Muslims, a ste…
Canada concluded China’s actions against ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang province constituted a genocide and called for sanctions China has warned Canadian lawmakers to halt their “blatant interference” in its internal affairs, in the latest episode of …
Researcher says Xinjiang files reveal government strategy of long-term social controlThousands of Uighur children appear to have been left without parents as their mothers or fathers were forced into Chinese internment camps, prison and other detention…
The UN must be allowed to conduct an inquiry into possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the shadow foreign secretary saysBritain must oppose giving China a seat on the UN’s human rights body this week in protest at its abuse of Uighur Muslims, …
Salahidin Abdulahad, Khalil Mamut and Ayoub Mohammed are desperate to be reunited with their children in Canada They were captured by bounty hunters, shipped across the world by American soldiers and held for years in Guantánamo Bay.Salahidin Abdulahad…
Foreign secretary tells committee withdrawal not ruled out if evidence against China continues to mountBritain may not be able to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 if evidence mounts of the abuse of Uighur Muslims in China, the foreign…
Beijing formally confirmed death to UN but man’s daughter disputes suggestion he died of ‘pneumonia and tuberculosis’ in 2018The Chinese government has taken the rare step of formally confirming to the UN the death of a Uighur man whose family believe …
Exclusive: MPs and peers aim to grant minorities in China the right to petition British courtsUighurs and other Muslim minorities would be given the right to petition a UK high court judge to declare that genocide is taking place in China, requiring th…
Layla Moran will urge UK consumers to consider boycotting Chinese firms at party conferenceThe Liberal Democrats are to call on the government to consider sanctions against Chinese leaders over rights abuses against the Uighur people, and urged the Bri…
Construction has continued despite Beijing’s claim ‘re-education’ system is winding downChina has built nearly 400 internment camps in Xinjiang region, with construction on dozens continuing over the last two years, even as Chinese authorities said the…
Hikvision’s surveillance tech has also been installed in leisure centres in LondonSurveillance cameras made by Hikvision, the Chinese company that has been implicated in grave human rights violations and has been blacklisted by the US government, are b…
Document defending camps for Uighurs released days after US blocked some Xinjiang importsClues to scale of Xinjiang labour operation emerge as China defends campsChina’s new white paper on forced labour in Xinjiang suggests a government uneasy about gr…