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China slams UN report on Xinjiang and calls it 'farce'
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 1 (ANI): China on Thursday slammed the UN human rights office over a report that found Beijing's crackdown on ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and called the finding a "farce".
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Uyghur academic sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in China's Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], April 24 (ANI): A Uyghur lecturer has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region [XUAR], said a media report citing a security officer at the university where he worked.
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Uyghur farmer serving 8-year sentence for saving wife from forced abortion
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 16 (ANI): A Uyghur farmer, sentenced to eight-year imprisonment for saving his wife from forced abortion, died in jail in 2020, said a media report citing another Uyghur in the know of the development and local police officials.
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China: Uyghur scholar gets 10-year imprisonment for promoting separatism,
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 10 (ANI): A Uyghur professor and translator has been sentenced to 10-year imprisonment in China's Xinjiang for "separatism" and "promoting Western culture", said a media report citing a village official and the convicted man's former Uyghur classmate.
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US needs to act more against China for human rights abuses against Uyghurs
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 16 (ANI): Even though the US sanctions on China for numerous human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims are hurting the nation but more action needs to be taken by the Biden administration to further enhance the pressure on Beijing's increasing crackdown on ethnic mino
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Pressure rises on China as hundreds protest in Istanbul against Beijing's
Updated : 5 years, 3 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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