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Uyghur dies days after release from China detention camp, son collapses de
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 25 (ANI): A shocking incident has came to light from China's Xinjiang, as a goldsmith from the region's ethnic minority population died 20 days after being released from President Xi Jining's detention camp, followed by the death of his 20-year-old son the next day at hi
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Uyghurs, Tibetans protest outside UN compound in Geneva
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 15 (ANI): Ahead of Michelle Bachelet's visit, the UN's high commissioner for human rights in China's Xinjiang, about 20 Uyghurs, Tibetans and international human rights groups protested outside the United Nations compound in Geneva.
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Repression of Uyghurs by China continues, 7 teachers imprisoned in Xinjian
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], May 6 (ANI): Seven teachers have been imprisoned in the third-largest city of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) as a crackdown on the community continues by the Chinese government.
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Minorities prisoners inside China's detention camps tortured, monitored co
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 4 (ANI): Minorities like Kazakhs, Tajiks, and Uyghurs inside China's detention camps are constantly subjected to violence and constantly monitored.
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China: Uyghur scholar gets 10-year imprisonment for promoting separatism,
Updated : 4 years 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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Uyghurs in Xinjiang given long prison sentences
Updated : 4 years, 8 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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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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Detention camps were set under the Foreigners Act during UPA rule, context
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Dec 28: Former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said that detention camps were set up under the Foreigners Act during the UPA regime but the context was very different now.
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