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East Turkistan Government in-Exile condemns China's village name changes a
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The ETGE condemned these actions as part of China's broader strategy to erase the rich heritage of East Turkistan and emphasised the urgent need for global intervention to halt what it described as a genocidal campaign.
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China changes village names as part of cultural destruction of Uyghur comm
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
These names are being replaced with names reflecting the Chinese Communist Party ideology.
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Paris: Campaigners for Tibet, Xinjiang protest as Chinese president Xi Jin
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Chinese President Xi Jinping is on his first journey to Europe in half a decade, with the visit expected to revolve around Russia's conflict in Ukraine and economic tensions between Beijing and Brussels.
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1 in 26 Uyghurs jailed, accounting 1/3 of China's prison population: Uyghu
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
An annual report by a Uyghur advocacy group revealed ongoing persecution in China's far-western Xinjiang province, with an estimated 1 in 26 Uyghurs jailed, accounting for a third of China's prison population, 3.5 times the world's highest rate of imprisonment.
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US Congresswomen raise concern over Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
She highlighted that the Uyghurs face genocide in modern-day concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Rights group organises virtual discussion to highlight China's atrocities
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), organized a virtual discussion to highlight mass arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution, separation of families, forced labor, sexual violence, and violations of reproductive rights
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US bill would punish non-US companies found working with entities supporti
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Two lawmakers in the United States re-introduced a bill to Congress on Tuesday that would expand US sanctions to include foreign companies that do business with entities that are contributing to human rights violations against ethnic Uyghurs in China's Far West, reported Radio Free Asia.
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World Uyghur Congress advocates Uyghur rights in Turkey parliament
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) commemorates the 35th anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy Uyghur student protest in Urumchi and highlights the courage of the protestors.
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Activists gather in Dharamshala to discuss 'China and the Changing Global
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Activists from across the world gathered in the North Indian hill town Dharamshala to participate in a 3-day conference on 'China and the changing global Order'.
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Uyghur asylum seekers keep dying in Thailand's detention centres
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Mattohti is the fifth Uyghur asylum seeker to die in Thai detention over the past nine years. In 2018, a 27-year-old man died of cancer at a Thai immigration detention facility after being detained there for four years. Another two Uyghur children died in 2014, according to media reports, in
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UNESCO accused of failing to acknowledge Beijing's actions towards Uyghurs
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
These actions by Beijing include "destroying built heritage and desacralizing religious traditions, criminalizing grassroots cultural practices while using their staged representations to promote China's chosen political narratives."
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Civilization at risk if governments continue "business as usual" with Chin
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Kanat expressed his gratitude to the Jewish community and to the many others for advocating universal human rights and continuing to demand "Never Again" in defence of the Uyghur people.
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