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Uyghur representatives meet Norwegian leaders, seek Xinjiang genocide reco
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Oslo [Norway], May 7 (ANI): Representatives from the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), including its President Dolkum Isa met with Norwegian lawmakers and officials in Oslo, during a two-day visit to the country on May 5-6, and called for the recognition of the 'Uyghur genocide' in China's Xinjia
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China hoodwinks world as human rights violations continue in Tibet
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 5 (ANI): Even as China wants the world to believe that things are all rosy in Tibet, recent incidents in which two Tibetans immolated themselves within a span of one month has exposed the human rights violations inflicted by Beijing.
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China using diplomatic leverage to target Uyghurs abroad
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 28 (ANI): China is using its diplomatic heft with countries in Central, West, and South Asia to hunt down and target Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities who have taken refuge abroad, a media report said.
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Uyghur internment camp survivors demonstrate outside UN office in Geneva
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 27 (ANI): Uyghur activists, many of whom are survivors of the internment camps set up by China in the Xinjiang region on Monday demonstrated for a week outside the United Nations compound in Geneva demanding a meeting with the UN human rights chief, a media report
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After protests by rights groups, Saudi Arabia halts deportation of four Uy
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], April 15 (ANI): After worldwide protests by human rights groups, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday halted the deportation of four Uyghur individuals to China, which included a woman and her 13-year-old daughter.
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China says US Human Rights report reveals hypocrisy, double standards
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 15 (ANI): Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected the annual human rights report released by the US Department of State, saying that the document reveals the "hypocrisy and double standards" of the Americans.
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Blinken says China continues to commit human rights abuses in Xinjiang
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 13 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused China of committing gross human rights violations, particularly in the Xinjiang region, in a speech on the annual human rights report released on Tuesday.
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CCP attempting to erase memories of Tiananmen Square massacre: Report
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 9 (ANI): Asserting that the recollection of the Tiananmen Sqaure massacre still haunts the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a media report said that the party is making attempts to erase the memory of the ruthless political crackdown from public memory.
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China denies treatment for non-Covid illnesses: HRW
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [US], April 7 (ANI): The Chinese government should respect the right to health and other basic rights in its response to the COVID-19 surge in the country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.
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Prominent Tibetan writer released after 13 years in China prison
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], March 22 (ANI): Prominent Tibetan writer and co-founder and editor of the first-ever Tibetan literary website 'Chomei' (Butter Lamp) Kunchok Tsephel has reportedly been released by Chinese authorities after a harrowing 13 years in prison.
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Amid sustained repression, Xi calls for minorities in China to 'stick toge
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 7 (ANI): China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday urged the minorities in the country to forge "ethnic unity" and a sense of community for the Chinese nation even as new laws have been introduced to repress minorities' identity.
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Ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang among Ukrainian refugees in Poland
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Warsaw [Poland], March 6 (ANI): Amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, an ethnic Kazakh from China's North-Western province of Xinjiang has found his way to Poland with other Ukrainian refugees, a media report said on Friday.
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