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Once oppressed, Xinjiang's Uyghur women take on Chinese government
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 14 (ANI): Uyghur women have found themselves the targets of some of Beijing's cruellest tactics - featuring forced sterilisations and intrauterine devices (IUD) implantations--meant to slash birth rates, which dropped 24 per cent in 2019 in Xinjiang compared with 4.2 p
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Pressure rises on China as hundreds protest in Istanbul against Beijing's
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], March 11 (ANI): International pressure on China's aggressive crackdown on ethnic minorities has risen, with the latest report of hundreds of women staging a march in Istanbul demanding an end to Beijing's 'genocide' and protection of Uyghur women's rights.
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Brothers of US-based journalist detained after Xinjiang coverage, in appar
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 9 (ANI): Two brothers of US-based Journalist Eset Sulaiman have been detained by the authorities in China's Xinjiang as part of an intimidation campaign aimed at preventing him from reporting on rights abuses, according to Radio Free Asia.
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Trudeau slammed for abstaining from Parliament's meeting on Uyghur rights
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 26 (ANI): While lauding the Canadian Parliament's recognition of the Uyghur genocide, the US-based Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU) has slammed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet for abstaining during the meeting of House of Commons on the matter.
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Activists, Uyghurs protest in Paris to ensure Pakistan is placed on FATF b
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Exiled journalists, human rights activists, and Uyghurs on Tuesday gathered at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) headquarters in Paris to persuade the anti-terror financing organisation to place Pakistan on the blacklist.
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Exiled dissidents protest outside FATF headquarters to urge blacklisting P
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Paris [France] February 20 (ANI): Exiled dissidents from Pakistan, Tibet and Hong Kong gathered outside the headquarters of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in Paris on Saturday urging the international monitoring body to blacklist Pakistan and deliver on its mandate of stopping terror
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China working to 'erode' Utsuls religious identity
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Sanya [China], February 16 (ANI): With the new restrictions imposed on the Utsuls residing in the Chinese city of Sanya, it is clear that Beijing is " is working to erode the religious identity of even its smallest Muslim minorities".
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The saga of China's crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 14 (ANI): China's sweeping crackdown on Muslim ethnic minority, Uyghurs in Xinjiang since 2017 in the name of counterterrorism has drawn global ire, particularly US State Department, that has classified it as 'genocide', reported The Washington Post.
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China fumes over reports on atrocities against Uyghurs, retaliates after U
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 5 (ANI): Retaliating to the United Kingdom's move to revoke the broadcasting license for China Global Television Network (CGTN), the Chinese Foreign Ministry has said that "BBC has made some false reports" on human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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'Imran Khan's silence on Uyghur issue undercuts his projection as Muslims'
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 31 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's work in projecting himself as the messiah of Muslims around the world has been undercut by his deafening silence on the atrocities on the Uyghur Minorities by the country's all-weather ally China, said Michael Kugelman,
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Twitter locks account of Chinese Embassy in US over tweet on Uyghur women
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], January 21 (ANI): Twitter has blocked the account of Chinese Embassy in the US over its earlier tweet which claimed that Uyghur women in Xinjiang region are now "emancipated" and no longer "baby-making machines."
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In final act, outgoing Trump administration declares China's atrocities ag
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): In a final blow to Beijing, the outgoing Trump administration on Tuesday (local time) determined that China has committed genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang and said that Chinese Communist Party (CC
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