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Retired Uyghur civil servant died at China's Xinjiang detention camp: Repo
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 22 (ANI): Retired Uyghur civil servant Niyaz Nasir is confirmed to have died in China's Xinjiang internment camp, according to a report.
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Former Chinese detective reveals extent of torture against Uyghurs
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 5 (ANI): A former Chinese detective in exile revealed how hundreds of police officers armed with rifles went house to house in Uyghur communities in the far western region of China, pulling people from their homes, handcuffing and hooding them, and threatening to sho
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Ram Alladi bags best director award at the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Fi
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 14 (ANI/PNN): Ram Alladi's film Ra's Metanoia has won significant critical acclaim and awards for Gandhi's life. Shot entirely in New York and New Jersey, 'Ra's Metanoia' combines vintage film styling with state of the art computer-generated sets to creat
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Uyghurs in Xinjiang given long prison sentences
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, June 25 (ANI): Chinese government figures show a steep rise in the number of people given lengthy prison sentences in Xinjiang from 2014, when Beijing's crackdown on the region's Muslim-majority Uyghurs ramped up.
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Indian-origin journalist wins Pulitzer Prize for exposing China's Uyghur M
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 12 (ANI): Indian origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan, along with two contributors, has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed secretly built China's mass detention camps for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province.
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My family members were abducted after I became vocal about Uyghurs in Chin
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], October 18 (ANI): The situation in Xinjiang started deteriorating in 2017 when the Chinese government was holding one million people in detention camps and now the number has increased to 3 million, an Uyghur-American activist in an interview.
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At UNGA, 39 countries urge China to shut down Xinjiang detention camps
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], October 6 (ANI): As many as 39 countries at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on Tuesday urged China to close the detention camps in Xinjiang.
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Uyghur detention facilities found in Xinjiang's Turpan, where Disney's Mul
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [DC], September 9 (ANI): Detailed locations of as many as 15 detention camps for Uyghurs have been unearthed in Turpan city of the northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang, the region where several scenes of Disney's new film 'Mulan' were filmed, according to a Washington-based Uyg
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China must be held accountable for its crime against humanity: Uighur acti
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 7 (ANI): Rushan Abbas, a Uighur American activist, whose sister went missing in China almost two years ago and is believed to be locked in a detention camp, said that the Chinese regime must be held accountable for its crime against humanity which it manifests in m
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Octogenarian father in Kolkata awaits son's release from detention centre
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Feb 23 (ANI): An 85-year-old father, along with other family members, is eagerly awaiting the release of his son Asgar Ali from a detention camp in Assam on completion of three years there in July this year.
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BJP will sell off everything except detention camps: Mamata Banerjee
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Krishnanagar (West Bengal) [India], Feb 5 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP's central government and said that it would "sell out" everything and what will remain are the detention camps.
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Students make replica of detention camp during protest against CAA, NRC in
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Dec 30 (ANI): Students made a replica of detention camp while protesting here against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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