カテゴリー: Uighurs
UK expected to suspend extradition arrangements with Hong Kong as Liu Xiaoming blames reports of forced sterilisation on ‘anti-China elements’China’s ambassador to the UK gave a brazen defence of his country’s human rights record on Sunday, insisting t…
Republican senators among those hit by sanctions brought in response to US measures The Chinese government has announced sanctions against US officials, including the Republican senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, in response to US sanctions over Beijin…
Mike Pompeo says US ‘will not stand idly by’ over abuses of ethnic minorities in China’s western region of XinjiangThe United States has imposed sanctions on three senior officials of the Chinese Communist party, including a member of the ruling polit…
Activist group submits evidence to international court accusing Xi Jinping and other Beijing officials of crimes against humanityA group of Uighurs in exile has submitted evidence to the international criminal court, calling for an investigation into s…
Border officials say shipment contained 13 tons of weaves and other hair products worth $800,000US federal authorities have seized a shipment of products made from human hair believed to have been taken from Muslims in labor camps in China’s western Xi…
Uighurs are among those facing involuntary contraception or threats over birth quotasChinese authorities are carrying out forced sterilisations of women in an apparent campaign to curb the growth of ethnic minority populations in the western Xinjiang r…
Washington legislation allows US to freeze assets of Chinese officials it deems responsible for arbitrary detentions in Xinjiang regionBeijing has criticised a new US law that would sanction Chinese officials over the mass incarceration of Uighurs and …
Lawmakers from EU parliament and eight other countries create new bodyInternational cooperation is needed to protect democratic values from an increasingly assertive communist China, a new group made up of lawmakers from eight countries and the EU parl…
Istanbul has become world’s largest diaspora hub for Uighurs fleeing Chinese persecutionIn Hayrı Gül’s house, there was a lot to do before the Eid al-Fitr, or Bayram, holiday marking the end of Ramadan began on Saturday. There were traditional sangza n…
Istanbul has become world’s largest diaspora hub for Uighurs fleeing Chinese persecutionIn Hayrı Gül’s house, there was a lot to do before the Eid al-Fitr, or Bayram, holiday marking the end of Ramadan began on Saturday. There were traditional sangza n…
Nadila Wumaier, the mother of an Australian, says police visited her in Xinjiang after she contradicted diplomat’s claim she did not want to be with husband A Uighur woman who is reportedly under house arrest in Xinjiang says she was visited by Chinese…
Database known as the ‘Karakax list’ shows people sent to internment camps for reasons such as ‘minor religious infection’Growing a beard, wearing a veil or accidentally visiting a foreign website were among the justifications for sending Uighurs to Ch…
Relatives of detainees worry that conditions in the camps could spell disaster if the virus takes holdMembers of China’s Uighur minority living in exile are sounding the alarm over the risk of the coronavirus spreading in camps inside the country, wher…
Facial recognition firm SenseTime discussed use of AI in universities with governmentA government trade minister held a one-on-one meeting with a facial recognition firm accused of enabling the Chinese government’s campaign of persecution against Uighu…
Libby Ruffle on China’s economic gains and humanitarian failings, and Jim Denham on Beijing’s global dominanceMartin Jacques writes about the “world-transforming” effect of China’s economic growth on Europe and the US (This decade belonged to China. So…