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Blinken says his judgment that China committed genocide has not changed
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [US], January 28 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said his views that Chinese officials are engaged in genocide against the Uyghur in China's Xinjiang province remains unchanged.
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Activist urges Biden to fight for all enslaved Uyghurs
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 26 (ANI): Rushan Abbas, founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU), has urged US President Joe Biden and his administration must fight for all enslaved Uyghurs, adding that the freedom of the democratic world is at stake.
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Twitter locks account of Chinese Embassy in US over tweet on Uyghur women
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], January 21 (ANI): Twitter has blocked the account of Chinese Embassy in the US over its earlier tweet which claimed that Uyghur women in Xinjiang region are now "emancipated" and no longer "baby-making machines."
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Uyghur rights group applauds US' atrocity determination of Chinese genocid
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU), a US-based rights group on Tuesday applauded the outgoing Donald Trump administration's reiteration that China has committed genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.
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In final act, outgoing Trump administration declares China's atrocities ag
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 20 (ANI): In a final blow to Beijing, the outgoing Trump administration on Tuesday (local time) determined that China has committed genocide against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang and said that Chinese Communist Party (CC
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Uyghur refugee shares her 3-year of harrowing ordeal in Chinese 're-educat
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], January 18 (ANI): As reports confirming the human rights abuses on Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region continue to surface, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, an Uyghur woman who was lured back to Beijing from France only to be arrested, has recounted her harrowing experience in the "re-educ
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US led the world in exposing 'horrific' abuses in Xinjiang, says Pompeo
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 17 (ANI): The United States led the world in exposing the "horrific" rights abuses in Xinjiang province of China and imposed sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party's officials, said outgoing US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.
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Trudeau, Macron express concern over Human rights situation in Hong Kong,
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], January 15 (ANI): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday expressed concern over the human rights situation in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, the Canadian Prime Minister's office said on Thursday.
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China possibly committed 'genocide' against Uyghurs, says US report
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): China possibly carried out "genocide" against Uyghurs and other minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang, said a commission of the United States Congress in a new report.
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China's Huawei backtracks after filing for patent to identify Uyghurs
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): Chinese technology firm Huawei has backtracked on a patent application it filed for a facial recognition system meant to identify Uyghurs in China. According to a report by CNN, Huawei had filed a patent application saying "identification of pedestrian attr
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US bans cotton, tomato products from China's Xinjiang over use of forced l
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 14 (ANI): The United States on Wednesday (local time) announced a ban on the entry of cotton and tomato products from China's Xinjiang region amid allegations that detainee or prison labour from Uyghurs went into making them, according to the US Customs and Border Pr
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UK chides China for rights abuse of Uyghur minority
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], January 12 (ANI): The United Kingdom on Tuesday blasted China for the "harrowing treatment" of its Uyghur minority and said will introduce new measures to ensure that UK companies are not part of Xinjiang region supply chain.
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