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Explained: The 'Xinjiang Police Files', and the case against China's Uighur camps
May 26, 2022 4:48 pm
The leaked information contains photos of SWAT teams conducting anti-escape drills from the internment camps and records of speeches from officials in 2018 with orders of “first shoot, then report” for incidents related to suppression of the inmates.
More than 100 UK lawmakers condemn China over Uighurs abuse
September 09, 2020 4:49 pm
In a letter signed by 130 lawmakers, the Parliamentarians in the United Kingdom said that they had written to condemn the oppression and called for it to end immediately.
China cuts Uighur births with IUDs, abortion, sterilisation
June 30, 2020 3:53 pm
The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply. Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines.
‘Publicity gives us protection,’ says whistleblower in China crackdown on Uighur Muslims
December 08, 2019 8:19 am
A Uighur woman living in the Netherlands says she helped leak secret Chinese government documents that shed light on how Beijing runs mass detention camps for Muslim ethnic minorities.
China and West clash over claims Beijing oppresses Uighurs
October 30, 2019 8:25 am
The Western statement -- whose supporters include the United States, France and Germany -- called on the Chinese government to respect human rights including freedom of religion in Xinjiang and throughout China.
Will China’s Uighur detentions spur US sanctions? Mike Pompeo won’t say
May 06, 2019 7:35 am
China has faced growing condemnation from human rights groups in recent months for its detention of up to one million ethnic Uighurs and other minority Muslims in large internment camps.
Chinese envoy calls Muslim detention centres 'campuses'
March 16, 2019 11:31 am
At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Executive Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng reiterated Friday China's insistence that the detention centres are designed to provide training and fight regional terrorism.
Turkey calls on China to close internment camps for Muslims
February 10, 2019 6:52 pm
Ankara called on the international community and the UN secretary general to take action.
US says 800k to 2 million religious minorities detained in Chinese internment camps
December 06, 2018 2:55 pm
At a Congressional hearing, Scott Busby, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State at the Bureau of the Human Right Democracy and Labour, alleged that Beijing was supporting similar repressive moves by other authoritarian regimes across the globe.
China envoy says no accurate figure on Uighurs fighting in Syria
August 20, 2018 10:06 am
China is worried that Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language and hail from China's far western region of Xinjiang, have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight for militants, having travelled illegally via Southeast Asia and Turkey.
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