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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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China committing systematic genocide of Uyghurs: Report
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Beijing [China], February 25 (ANI): The Uyghur genocide in China is the characterization of the series of ongoing human rights abuses against other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang by the Chinese government, resulting in the severe birth drop in the region.
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China choosing Uyghur athlete to light Olympic flame attempt to distract v
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 7 (ANI): US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Sunday (local time) confronted China over choosing an Uyghur athlete to light the Beijing Olympic flame.
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Pakistani student outfit holds conference on 'Uyghur genocide' in Lahore
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], February 7 (ANI): Anjuman Talaba-e-Islam (ATI), a Pakistan-based student outfit held a conference in Lahore on February 5 to discuss the "Uyghur genocide."
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Chinese President Xi Jinping to launch Beijing Winter Olympics with Vladim
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], February 4 (ANI): Chinese Xi Jinping is set to launch the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 in a grand ceremony on Friday along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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CCP will utilize Beijing Olympics to whitewash genocide, say rights activi
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): A few days ahead of the Beijing Olympics, several Uyghur activists and human rights experts at a webinar argued that the Winter Games will implicitly approve of the rights violation of the Muslim minority community in China.
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Webinar questions Olympics committee decision to award winter games to Bei
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], January 25 (ANI): A webinar held in London on Monday by The Open Forum questioned the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decision to award China to host the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 amid reports of genocide against the Uyghurs.
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Time to boycott China by divesting companies complicit in Uyghur genocide,
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 24 (ANI): An estimated one million Uyghurs are in concentration camps, treated as little more than chattel, and enslaved. Both men and women endure systematic physical and sexual abuse, including rape and torture. Young men remain absent from the streets of Urumqi, a
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East Turkistan govt in exile praises France for recognizing Uyghur 'genoci
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], January 21 (ANI): The East Turkistan Government in Exile praised the French people and their National Assembly for recognizing the Chinese Government's atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in East Turkistan as genocide and called out for a full boycott of t
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Former UN employee claims China wants to ensure the Uyghur genocide is nev
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 3 (ANI): A United Nations employee, who was fired last week for accusing the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) of providing the names of Chinese government opponents and activists to the Chinese government, has called for an ext
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Canada: Protesters urge Prime Minister Trudeau to recognise Uyghur genocid
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada] July 20 (ANI): More than 200 people across Canada joined a rally outside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office in Ottawa to call the Canadian government to take action to stop the Uyghur genocide. The protest occurred on Sunday and was joined by women and children.
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Grave concerns raised about 'Uyghur genocide' in China at UN rights counci
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 23 (ANI): Expressing grave concerns over the "Uyghur genocide" in China's Xinjiang province, Canada delivered a joint statement on behalf of 42 countries at the UN Humans Rights Council on Tuesday.
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