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Yearender 2020: Clampdown in Hong Kong, treatment of Uyghurs worsen China
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): It was a year that worsened China's global image. While COVID-19, which emerged in its city of Wuhan, was a factor, China's coercive tactics with countries in its neighbourhood and beyond, its clampdown on people in Hong Kong in breach of "one governme
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US commission on religious freedom raises alarm over China's extradition t
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], December 31 (ANI): The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Wednesday expressed shock over the reports that China has ratified an extradition treaty with Turkey that could target Muslim minority Uyghurs fleeing persecution from Xinjiang province.
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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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US charges Chinese executive for sabotaging video conferences on Tiananmen
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 19 (ANI): Federal court has charged Chinese executive Xinjiang Jin, also known as "Julien Jin" and an employee of a US-based telecommunications company, for his involvement in a conspiracy to disrupt meetings in May and June this year held to commemorate the June 4,
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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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China's 'labour transfer policy' in Tibet bears similarities with Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], December 15 (ANI): Since last year, China has been introducing new policies to promote the centralised and large-scale transfer of 'rural surplus labourers' to parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), as well as other provinces of the People's Republic of China in repeated
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China continues to arrest, imprison Uyghurs despite international backlash
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], December 14 (ANI): The Communist Party of China hasn't made even little tweaks in its larger, nefarious agenda of systematically eliminating ethnic minority Uyghurs from its northwestern Xinjiang province, experts and Uyghur Muslims living in different parts of the world have sa
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Uyghurs forced to eat pork on Fridays as China pushes to expand pig farms
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], December 4 (ANI): The Uyghur Muslims in Chinese "re-education" camps are forced to eat pork every Friday, confirmed Sayragul Sautbay, who was one of the victims of the atrocities being committed by the Chinese government.
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US blocks China's cotton due to human rights concerns in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], December 3 (ANI): The US government has issued an order to block cotton imports from a Xinjiang governmental organisation in China due to the ongoing human rights abuses of Uyghurs, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Wednesday.
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Uyghur businessman pleads for information of his son missing since "Chines
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], December 2 (ANI): Amid China's attempts to refute reports of atrocities on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, Abdurahman Hasan, an Uyghur, has taken to Twitter pleading for information about his missing son due to the "Chinese invasion".
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Multinationals in US lobby against Xinjiang forced labor bill, says report
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], December 2 (ANI): Nike and Coca-Cola are among the major multinational companies and business organisation lobbying US Congress to water done a bill that would ban imported goods made in China's Xinjiang province, according to a report by the New York Times.
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Muslims in Nepal hold anti-China protest demanding justice for Uyghur
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Pokhara [Nepal], November 29 (ANI): Muslims in Nepal on Sunday organised a protest against atrocities on Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province of China.
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