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US sanctions China, imposes new trade curbs over Uyghur rights
- The United States has been ramping up pressure on China amid a crop of disputes, with President Joe Biden's administration a day earlier targeting producers of painkillers that have contributed to America's addiction crisis.
Published on Dec 17, 2021 04:44 AM IST
AFP |
China retaliates after EU sanctions 4 officials over abuses against Uyghurs
The reaction came immediately after the EU sanctioned four Chinese nationals and one entity as part of a raft of measures targeting alleged human rights offenders around the world.
Published on Mar 22, 2021 11:02 PM IST
hindustantimes.com | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi
Apple is said to cut off component maker China’s Ofilm over Xinjiang labour
- The iPhone maker is thought to have terminated its contracts with Ofilm over the concerns a few months ago
Published on Mar 17, 2021 01:39 PM IST
Bloomberg |
Pompeo slams China’s treatment of Uyghurs, compares it to Nazi Germany
Various testimonies surfacing from the non-Chinese world reveal that Beijing has in fact intensified its operations against Uyghurs by putting more people in internment camps during the pandemic times.
Updated on Dec 15, 2020 01:50 PM IST
Washington | Asian News International | Posted by Nilavro Ghosh
Uyghurs in ‘re-education camps’ forced to eat pork on Fridays as China pushes to expand pig farms in Xinjiang
Sayragul Sautbay, a victim said that on every friday muslims were forced to eat pork at the camps, this is a part of the Chinese policy of ‘secularization’ in the Xinjiang region, which also includes plans to promote and expand pig farming.
Updated on Dec 04, 2020 06:03 PM IST
Stockholm | Asian News International | Posted by Ayshee Bhaduri
Donald Trump may cause problems for China before he leaves presidency: Experts
Even without unsettling eleventh-hour moves, an incoming Biden administration will be confronting a more emboldened Beijing, reported SCMP.
Updated on Nov 09, 2020 09:38 AM IST
Hong Kong | Asian News International | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar
Uyghur American Association holds rally in US to raise awareness about Muslim genocide in China
US rally by Uyghur American Association slams Chinese Communist Party, on 71st National Day of the People Republic of China, for putting a million or more Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities into detention camps and prisons in Xinjiang
Updated on Oct 03, 2020 12:25 PM IST
Washington DC [US] | Asian News International | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz
China rebuked at UNHRC for restricting culture-religion, forced labour, forced birth control in Xinjiang and Hong Kong
‘Culture and religion are severely restricted and we have seen credible reports of forced labour and forced birth control’: Western nations rebuke China at UNHRC over human rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong
Updated on Sep 27, 2020 10:23 AM IST
Geneva [Switzerland] | Asian News International | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz
China accused of eliminating the culture, language and identity of the Uyghurs
US-based journalist Gulchehra Hoja accuses China of enforced disappearances and crackdown on religious freedom of Uyghurs, says will ‘never again contribute to the structure of lies that keep the Chinese tyranny in power’
Updated on Sep 25, 2020 08:12 PM IST
Oslo [Norway] | Asian News International | Posted by Zarafshan Shiraz
‘Investigate acts of genocide in China’: Uyghurs urge UN in new report
The report said that despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese government continues its oppression and persecution of Uyghur Turks and other Muslim communities for its own political and economic interests.
Updated on Jul 09, 2020 10:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by: Amit Chaturvedi
China distorting facts about Xinjiang camps, says exiled Uyghur group
China says it is fighting terrorism in Xinjiang but in accordance with UN norms but Uyghur rights groups allege they were forcing the community to give up their religious and cultural identity and demand Beijing must allow foreign media to visit the camps.
Updated on Oct 17, 2018 06:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Beijing | Sutirtho Patranobis
China legalises re-education camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, inmates to get ‘psychological treatment’
Until last month, Beijing had denied the existence of the camps in the face of mounting criticism that said that the hundreds of thousands of Uyghur men and women had been interned without any legal recourse.
Updated on Oct 12, 2018 05:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Beijing | Sutirtho Patranobis
What camps? says China on ‘million Uyghurs interned’ in Xinjiang
Last week, Gay McDougall, vice-chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination told the UN panel there were deep concerns about Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) being turned into a “massive internment camp”.
Updated on Aug 14, 2018 03:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Beijing | Sutirtho Patranobis