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Uyghur internment camp survivors demonstrate outside UN office in Geneva
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 27 (ANI): Uyghur activists, many of whom are survivors of the internment camps set up by China in the Xinjiang region on Monday demonstrated for a week outside the United Nations compound in Geneva demanding a meeting with the UN human rights chief, a media report
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Uyghur kids made to recite Chinese propaganda
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 16 (ANI): The level of Chinese indoctrination of Uyghur kids has heightened under President Xi Jinping. A video was uploaded by an Uyghur Twitter account on March 14 that showed that Uyghur kids were made to recite Chinese language propaganda.
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Retired Uyghur postal worker sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for 're
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 5 (ANI): A retired Uyghur postal worker in China's Xinjiang region, released from an internment camp due to health issues, was rearrested in 2020 and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment for participating in "illegal religious activities", said a media report.
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Retired Uyghur civil servant died at China's Xinjiang detention camp: Repo
Updated : 4 years, 5 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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Researcher finds Chinese govt role in Uyghur Internment camps in XUAR
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], September 19 (ANI): German researcher Adrian Zenz in London had presented a report at the second session of the Ughyur Tribunal last week.
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Uyghur businessman, who disappeared in 2017, confirmed to be held in Xinji
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 25 (ANI): A Uyghur entrepreneur, who disappeared four years ago following his return from the US, has been confirmed detained by authorities in an internment camp in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, sources familiar with the case told Radio Free Asia.
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Turkistan Islamic Movement: A grave national security crisis awaiting Chin
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 10 (ANI): The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), also known as the Turkistan Islamic Movement is a grave national security threat to China, said a Canada-based think tank.
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Blinken meets Uyghur internment camp survivors, calls for end of China's g
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 7 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday virtually met Uyghur internment camp survivors, and relatives of individuals detained in Xinjiang, and expressed Washington's commitment to pressure China to halt ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs minority.
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Elderly Uyghur woman detained in Xinjiang for 'religious extremism'
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 30 (ANI): Authorities in China's Xinjiang region confirmed the detainment of an elderly Uyghur woman in an internment camp earlier this year on suspicions of 'religious extremism' after she intervened in a domestic dispute between her neighbours, informed authorities.
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Pak court raps interior secy for not providing details on missing persons
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday directed Pakistan's Interior Secretary to personally produce details from internment centres about missing persons and recalled an arrest warrant issued earlier against him.
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Prominent Uyghur scholar's niece confirmed dead under detention in China's
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 27 (ANI): Prominent Uyghur scholar and linguist-in-exile Abduweli Ayup's niece is confirmed to have died last year under detention by state security police in China's Xinjiang region, informed official sources.
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Lithuanian parliament latest to term China's treatment of Uyghurs 'genocid
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Vilnius [Lithuania], May 21 (ANI): The parliament in Lithuania on Thursday became the latest to describe China's treatment of its Uyghur minority as "genocide", voting to call for a UN probe of the internment camps in the country's northwest region of Xinjiang.
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