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Chinese court sentences Uyghur folklorist Rahile Dawut to life imprisonmen
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Rahile Dawut had appealed against the subsequent conviction. However, his appeal was apparently rejected and it remains unclear on when she was sentenced to life in prison.
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UK Foreign Secretary to visit China today, will raise human rights issues
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Foreign Secretary will state that China’s global significance comes with a responsibility for international security
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China's Surveillance cameras with "Skin Color Analytics" raise human right
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
In February 2021, IPVM and the Los Angeles Times reported that Dahua provided a video surveillance system with "real-time Uyghur warnings" to the Chinese police that included eyebrow size, skin colour and ethnicity. IPVM's 2018 statistical report shows that since 2016, Dahua and another Chin
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Bangladesh: Muslim scholars demand end to Chinese persecution of Uyghurs
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A group of Alems; Islamic scholars in Bangladesh have demanded an end to the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province, The Asian Age reported.
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China: Uyghur girls facing abuse, being forced to toil at garment factory
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Nearly 90 Uyghur teenage girls are locked up in a Chinese-run garment factory in Xinjiang, where they are forced to work heavily 14 hours a day, seven days a week, and regularly face verbal and physical abuse
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Activists raise concern over persecution of ethnic minorities by Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
They raised concern over the gross human rights violations committed by Pakistan against Baloch, Sindhi and the Pashtuns, and against the Uyghur Muslims by China.
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How China is using infrastructure as 'tool' of its expansionist intentions
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
One of the most visible elements of China's infrastructure investments in Tibet and Xinjiang has been the construction and upgradation of airports and heliports.
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Antony Blinken raises concerns over Beijing's human rights violations in X
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Blinken also stressed that the US will continue to work with its allies and partners to advance our vision for a world that is free, open, and upholds the 'rules-based international order'.
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Uyghur hatmaker, wife confirmed dead while serving sentence in Xinjiang: R
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Haji'ahun and his wife Mehpiremhan, natives of Maralbeshi county in Kashgar prefecture, were each given a 10-year term in Tumshuq Prison in 2019 for engaging in "illegal" religious activities, sources quoted by RFA said.
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China's insecurity exposed after politicized prosecutions, suppression of
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The arrest of activist Munkhbayar Chuluundorj in Mongolia and the deportation of a well-known Southern Mongolian writer Lhamjab Borjigin back to China have sparked outrage and underscored fears of China's interference in Mongolia's internal affairs.
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Treatment of Uyghurs by China continues to make headlines as minority face
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Uyghur minorities in China continue to make headlines as the newest challenge they pose is of surveillance, according to a report of Modern Diplomacy.
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China's monitoring tactics of Uyghurs are disturbing: Report
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to the latest Al Jazeera report by Erin Hale published on May 4, 2023, which cites a Human Rights Watch (HRW) forensic investigation reveals that Chinese authorities have monitored the phones of the ethnic minority Uyghur for the presence of 50,000 known multimedia files that were
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