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China continues to persecute its Uyghur populace
Updated : 11 months, 1 week 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 : 1 year 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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US Congresswomen raise concern over Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
She highlighted that the Uyghurs face genocide in modern-day concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Leaked documents help explain CCP's paranoia over Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years 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 : 4 years 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, 4 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, 6 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, 6 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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After perplexing silence over China's dismal human rights, New Zealand wak
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 11 (ANI): New Zealand, which is usually outspoken on human rights matters in general has remained largely silent on the China's concentration camps thinly veiled as "re-education camps" for the Uyghur Muslims.
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Islamabad HC slams Pak govt for depriving bears of natural habitat, says z
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 15 (ANI): Following the relocation of elephant 'Kaavan' to a sanctuary in Cambodia from Pakistan, the Islamabad High Court has compared zoos to concentration camps and slammed the government for depriving two Himalayan bears at Marghazar Zoo of their natural ha
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China along with its allies turn blind eye on persecution of Islam in East
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 9 (ANI): The persecution of Islam in East Turkestan by China is unparalleled. The demolition of thousands of mosques and the prohibition of religious symbols go hand-in-hand with the establishment of concentration camps and human-rights violations qualify as genocide
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Uyghur activist protests outside Chinese Embassy in US on anniversary of s
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI): Rushan Abbas, an Uyghur American activist, staged a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in the United States on the second anniversary of her sister's detention in northwestern China's Xinjiang province.
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