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Uyghurs living abroad under surveillance, their families threatened by CCP
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], April 28 (ANI): Uyghurs and their families living abroad are constantly under surveillance in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) occupied East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) or Xinjiang and being threatened to cooperate with the Chinese st
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Fearing 'extremist' tag, Xinjiang's Uyghurs not fasting in Ramzan
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 22 (ANI): After three years of ban on fasting during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), Uyghur Muslims from Xinjiang refrain fasting during Ramadan despite easing of restrictions this year, due to lingering fear of
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China defends its atrocities in Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Hong Kong, April 12 (ANI): The horrors of Chinese atrocities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in China's northwest, are inexorably emerging on an almost daily basis. In response, China has continually changed its narrative about its mass internment of Uyghurs.
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Global lawmakers call out China for abuses against minority women in Xinji
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 11 (ANI): A group of global lawmakers have called on governments to hold China to account for abuses against minority women in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), amid reports of systematic sexual abuse in detention and violations of reproductive rights. Read More
Ahead of Quad meeting, India, Japan discuss South China Sea, freedom of na
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI): Ahead of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) head of states meet, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga had a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier today. The conversation lasted for forty minutes.
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Xinjiang forced labour issue may hit China's investment agreement with EU
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 20 (ANI): With the European Parliament (EP) passing a resolution on forced labour and the condition of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China's plans to have investment agreements with the European Union (EU) member states seem to be now
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European Parliament asks China to allow UN fact-finding team to visit Xinj
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], December 18 (ANI): The European Parliament on Friday passed a resolution on forced labour and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region while calling on the EU to proactively work towards an independent UN inquiry on China with a view to ensuri
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Uyghur poet continues writing in internment camps, his poems testimony of
Updated : 5 years, 3 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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Chinese authorities detaining hundreds of Uyghur Imams in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 23 (ANI): As atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in China continue, Chinese authorities in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have now detained hundreds of Muslim Imams, according to an Uyghur linguist in exile.
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Weakening China's pretext for Uyghur crackdown, US drops ETIM from terrori
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 6 (ANI): The US government has removed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) from its list of terrorist organisations after nearly two decades that has led to the weakening of China's anti-terror pretext for a draconian crackdown on Uyghurs in its Xinjiang Uygh
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US passes Bill requiring firms to disclose connection with forced labour i
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], October 1 (ANI): Lawmakers from the Lower House of the United States Congress have passed legislation that would require US-listed companies to disclose if their supply chains are connected to forced labour in China's Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
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Am concerned about Uyghurs Muslims in China, says UN High Commissioner for
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 14 (ANI): The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, in her inaugural statement at the 45th session of the Human Rights Council on Monday, raised concerns over rights violations in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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