カテゴリー: Uighurs
From Tibet to Taiwan, China’s leader is intent on wielding absolute power. Instead he is fanning the flames of dissentIt’s often said that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely – but does it also induce leaders to act in foolhardy, hea…
Chinese government threatened woman when she resisted in move to suppress Muslim minority birth ratesA teacher coerced into giving classes in Xinjiang internment camps has described her forced sterilisation at the age of 50, under a government campaign…
The reassessment of China highlighted by Wang Yi’s trip has political, economic and security implicationsThe Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi did not exactly end his week-long European tour with his tail between his legs but he may have been chastened …
Protests against treatment of Hongkongers and Uighurs accompany foreign minister’s continental visitA network of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have disrupted a week-long European charm offensive by the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, by demandin…
Measures in capital of semi-autonomous region include being made to take traditional medicine despite no new cases in over a week Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageResidents in the capital of Xinjiang are being forced to take …
Heavily supervised visits to indoctrination centres present reporters with smiling inmates and tales of cultural acceptanceJournalist Sherif Sonbol was taking pictures of ethnic dancers during an official tour of China’s far western Xinjiang province w…
Statement signed by Rowan Williams, bishops, imams and rabbis says Chinese Muslim minority faces ‘human tragedy’Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, is among more than 70 faith leaders publicly declaring that the Uighurs are facing “one…
Merdan Ghappar’s texts and videos reveal shocking conditions in Xinjiang internment campsRare footage and text messages secretly sent by a detained Uighur man show chilling evidence of human rights violations by China, as global scrutiny of the situati…
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps assets frozenPompeo: China’s treatment of minorities is ‘stain of the century’The United States has imposed sanctions on a major economic and paramilitary organization with vast interests in China’s north-west…
The KTK Group is a major supplier of interior fittings to state transport departments including NSW, Queensland and VictoriaA Chinese train company with major government clients in Australia that has been accused of using Uighur labour has engaged lawy…
In Xinjiang province, China, more than 1 million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are being held in ‘re-education’ camps that the government claims are benign vocational centres teaching useful career skills. But former camp detainees have described…
Xi has stifled dissent at home and is increasingly willing for China to assert itself abroad Earlier this week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a rare meeting in Beijing with business leaders. Admitting that the Covid-19 pandemic had a “huge impact” on …
Exclusive: Sanctions on China and companies operating there, along with use of treaty agreements, can bring Beijing to account, British barristers argueThe international community is legally obliged to take action on China’s alleged abuse of Uighur and…
At least two Australian companies have imported stocks of masks from manufacturer involved in labour program criticised as ‘highly coercive’Face masks manufactured at a Chinese factory using allegedly coerced Uighur labour are being sold in Australia, …
China’s ambassador to the UK has denied reports of abuse of the Uighur population in the Xinjiang region, as he was confronted with footage of shackled prisoners being herded on to trains.Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Liu Xiaoming said: ‘I d…