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CFU marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, urges global action on ongoing Uyghur
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) commemorated the millions of innocent people killed during the Holocaust and paid respect to the survivors whose resilience and testimony have ensured that history is remembered. The day marked the 81st anniversary of the liberatio
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China continues to persecute its Uyghur populace
Updated : 8 months, 4 weeks ago IST
China's harsh treatment of ethnic minorities, such as Muslim Uyghurs in the northwest province of Xinjiang, has not garnered as much international attention in recent times. This must delight the government in Beijing, especially given its earlier notoriety for a sophisticated network of co
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UK lawmaker slams China over Uyghur abuses, calls for global action
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Baroness Helena Kennedy KC, UK House of Lords member and leading human rights lawyer, condemned China's abuses against Uyghur Muslims at the East Turkistan Uyghur Summit, calling them "crimes against humanity" and urging global action to end the repression in Xinjiang. She detailed mass d
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Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Rose Girone, dies at 113
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The New York Times reported in its recent edition that Rose Girone, the oldest Holocaust Survivor, died at 113. She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. According to the report, "she would often say, "Aren't we lucky?" Rose G
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US Congresswomen raise concern over Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
She highlighted that the Uyghurs face genocide in modern-day concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Virtual reality puts new twist on holocaust education
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Visitors wearing a virtual reality headset are taken on a 50-70 minute visit to Krakow's pre-war Jewish community followed by a guided tour of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Leaked documents help explain CCP's paranoia over Xinjiang
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, May 31 (ANI): A cache of tens of thousands of leaked documents from the Chinese police and re-education camps have confirmed that the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) - reaching right to Chairman Xi Jinping at the top - are totally complicit in the human rights
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Uyghur community holds protest in Vienna against Chinese atrocities in Xin
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], May 30 (ANI): A demonstration was organized by the Uyghur community at Herbert-Von-Karajan-Platz, next to the State Opera House, in Vienna, Austria against Chinese atrocities in Xinjiang.
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Time to boycott China by divesting companies complicit in Uyghur genocide,
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 24 (ANI): An estimated one million Uyghurs are in concentration camps, treated as little more than chattel, and enslaved. Both men and women endure systematic physical and sexual abuse, including rape and torture. Young men remain absent from the streets of Urumqi, a
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New evidence shows China's repression of Uyghurs
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 19 (ANI): Fresh evidence has emerged against China showing surveillance, intimidation and harassment of members of the Uyghur Muslim minority community at concentration camps in China's Xinjiang region.
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Protests outside Chinese embassy in UK over Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], November 14 (ANI): Protests were held outside the Chinese embassy in London and consulate in Manchester against China's treatment of Uyghur Muslims, demanding Beijing to close the concentration camps in Xinjiang province.
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Imran Khan's comic reply on China's Uyghur persecution exposes double spea
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 23 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan refusal to condemn China's alleged human rights abuses against the Muslim-majority Uyghur minority in Xinjiang has exposed his image as the world's leading anti-Islamophobia crusader.
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