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Pak continues cotton trade with China, Xinjiang despite growing int'l cond
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 7 (ANI): Despite fierce condemnation from the international community over cotton produced from forced labour in Xinjiang, Pakistan has announced to continue its cotton trade with China, especially from the region where over a million Uyghurs are detained in inter
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China used Twitter, Facebook more than ever for Xinjiang Propaganda in 202
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, March 31 (ANI): The Chinese government's propaganda activity on Twitter and Facebook over its policies toward ethnic minorities in Xinjiang reached an all-time high last year, as Beijing sought to portray its approach, including use of widespread internment camps and surveillance
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Missing Uyghur entrepreneur's sister urges Biden administration to act on
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 12 (ANI): Uyghur entrepreneur and philanthropist Ekpar Asat disappeared upon returning to China almost five years ago, after participating in a prestigious US State Department programme, believed to be one of the two million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities detained
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'China monitors social media posts of Uyghurs settled abroad'
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 17 (ANI): China has devised a new social media surveillance system to put a tab on Uyghurs staying overseas. Concerned about international opinion, the Chinese Communist Party has started to monitor social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and WeChat reports C
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Uyghur poet continues writing in internment camps, his poems testimony of
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 25 (ANI): A Uyghur poet, who had been sent to Chinese internment camps in 2018, continues to write poetry while being locked up in the cell and his poems are the "powerful testaments" to a continuing catastrophe in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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China formally confirms death of Uyghur man who was held in Xinjiang camp
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], October 4 (ANI): As the worldwide condemnation against China over human rights violation grows, Beijing has confirmed to the United Nations the death of a Uyghur man whose family says that he was held in the Xinjiang internment camp since 2017, The Guardian reported.
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US report says China uses counter-terrorism as pretext to detain, carry ou
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 24 (ANI): A US report issued by the Department of State has said that China uses counter-terrorism (CT) as a pretext to detain and carry out a repressive campaign against millions of Uighurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in internment camps in the Xi
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Coronavirus may have started in Xinjiang's prison camps
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Feb 22 (ANI): The coronavirus epidemic in China appears to have started from the cramped prison system, possibly at internment facilities in Xinjiang, according to media reports and social media posts.
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Turkey calls on China to shut down Uighur "concentration camps"
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Feb 9 (ANI): Turkey slammed China for its "systematic assimilation policy towards Uighur Turks," labelling it a "great embarrassment for humanity" while urging Beijing to shut down the "concentration camps".
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