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Carmakers found purchasing goods banned under Uyghur Forced Labor Preventi
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
A two-year-long research by the Senate Finance Committee in the US found out that car brands like BMW, Lands Rover, Jaguar, and Volkswagen have over time been purchasing spare parts originating from the Xinjiang region of East Turkistan, a report by The New York Times stated.
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US bans 26 textile firms over alleged links to forced labour in China
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The Biden administration in the US moved Thursday to block goods from 26 Chinese cotton traders and warehouse facilities believed to be linked to forced Uyghur labor camps from the Xinjiang area of China
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Activists decry China's repression, call for ending Uyghur and Tibetan opp
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Abduweli Ayup, a Uyghur linguist and poet accused the Chinese government of implementing forced sterilisations and abortions among the Muslim minority in Xinjiang.
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Paris: Campaigners for Tibet, Xinjiang protest as Chinese president Xi Jin
Updated : 1 year, 10 months 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 : 1 year, 10 months 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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Discussed China's "dangerous actions" in South China Sea: Antony Blinken
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that he discussed China's "dangerous actions" in the South China Sea.
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Human rights situation in Xinjiang remains grave: Amnesty International re
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
In its yearly report, Amnesty International stated that people who participated in events to commemorate the victims of an apartment block fire in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi and other protests against stringent COVID-19 policies known as the A4 protests or White Paper Revolution due to protes
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US report exposes arbitrary detention of Uyghurs, other Muslim minority gr
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
From criminal prosecution of journalists to the prohibition of independent trade unions, the findings underscore a troubling pattern of oppression and injustice.
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G7 foreign ministers express concern over China's human rights violations
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Regional peace and stability are "indispensable to security and prosperity for the whole international community," the ministers said, calling for a peaceful resolution of cross-strait issues.
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US Congresswomen raise concern over Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
She highlighted that the Uyghurs face genocide in modern-day concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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What's happening in Xinjiang, Tibet is part of Chinese colonisation proces
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The speakers included social activists, human rights advocates, representatives and delegates from the World Uyghur Congress, and the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, a social organisation from the US.
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Human rights activist exposes Chinese oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang at
Updated : 2 years ago IST
In his intervention Fujiki outlined China's efforts to erase the unique Uyghur identity and culture, citing mass detentions in "vocational training centers" that serve as de facto internment camps.
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