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Uyghur farmer serving 8-year sentence for saving wife from forced abortion
Updated : 4 years 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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Freedom struggle will go on till Tibet finally gets justice: Report
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], March 15 (ANI): The Tibetan cause and the freedom struggle will go on till Tibet finally gets justice, and this would also pave the way for other ethnic groups which are similarly helpless under China's oppressive rule, said a media report.
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Acquired during lockdown by Rugs In Style owners, KIAASA today is on path
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 14 (ANI/TPT): The entrepreneur duo Om Prakash and Amit Chauhan, owners of Rugs In Style (Manufacturer exporter of Handmade Carpet ), have recently launched KIAASA, a women's ethnicwear retailing brand. The brand is aimed at fulfilling the demand in the women's clothi
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Parties convene Jirga to defend rights of pashtuns in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Bannu [Pakistan], March 12 (ANI): To protest for the rights of ethnic minority Pashtuns and to discuss the issues faced by them, many parties in Pakistan's Bannu city convened a jirga on Friday.
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Xi Jinping replacing Uyghurs ethnic culture in garb of 'cultural nourishme
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 12 (ANI): Chinese government is using Uyghur-speaking government officials and other individuals to promote the idea of cultural nourishment as a way of forcing Uyghurs to give up their ethnic and cultural identities and promote Chinese culture.
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Tibetans stage protest in Austria against Chinese atrocities
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Vienna [Austria], March 11 (ANI): Tibetan diaspora in Austria has protested against China over the human rights violations and atrocities faced by the religious and ethnic minorities including Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Hongkongers.
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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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Amid sustained repression, Xi calls for minorities in China to 'stick toge
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Beijing [China], March 7 (ANI): China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday urged the minorities in the country to forge "ethnic unity" and a sense of community for the Chinese nation even as new laws have been introduced to repress minorities' identity.
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Ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang among Ukrainian refugees in Poland
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Warsaw [Poland], March 6 (ANI): Amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, an ethnic Kazakh from China's North-Western province of Xinjiang has found his way to Poland with other Ukrainian refugees, a media report said on Friday.
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Nearly 800 Uyghurs detained by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang's Manas cou
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Beijing [China], March 6 (ANI): Chinese authorities have detained nearly 800 Uyghurs in Manas county of Xinjiang region, said a media report citing an official from the area who previously worked at the detention facility.
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Human Rights Activist condemns ethnic cleansing in Pakistan, says country
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Birmingham [UK], March 1 (ANI): Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party, condemned Pakistan and said that the 'deep state' is collapsing as there is fascism and extremism.
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Myanmar extends ceasefire with ethnic armed groups
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], March 1 (ANI): Myanmar's military has extended its ceasefire agreements with ethnic armed groups until the end of 2022, local media reported on Tuesday.
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