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xinjiang uyghur autonomous region news

Pakistan-China Khunjerab border reopens for travel, trade after four months

Pakistan-China Khunjerab border reopens for travel, trade after four months closure
Published on Apr 02, 2024 01:30 pm IST

China: Heavy snowfall triggers avalanches, rescuers evacuate tourists trapped

In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, tourists are evacuated by a military helicopter from Altay Prefecture in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Chinese state media says that rescuers are evacuating tourists from a remote skiing area in the country's northwest where dozens of avalanches triggered by heavy snow have trapped more than 1,000 people for a week.
Published on Jan 16, 2024 06:12 pm IST

UN human rights chief 'determined' to follow up with China on Xinjiang

Xinjiang: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk is seen.
Published on Dec 09, 2022 03:02 pm IST

50 countries express 'grave' concern at human rights violation in China

Human rights groups have accused China of sweeping a million or more people from the minority groups into detention camps where many have said they were tortured, sexually assaulted, and forced to abandon their language and religion.
Published on Nov 01, 2022 07:52 am IST

Female frontier influencers are new face of China's propaganda: Report

Screenshots of an October 2021 video on the ‘Annie Guli’ YouTube channel.
Published on Oct 21, 2022 07:52 am IST

What did China's Xi Jinping miss in key party speech? Any mention of Xinjiang

Xi Jinping: China's President Xi Jinping waves as he arrives for the opening session of the 20th Chinese Communist Party's Congress.
Published on Oct 16, 2022 11:28 am IST

Why India abstained on UNHRC resolution on rights situation in China’s Xinjiang

The draft resolution on the situation in Xinjiang was presented by a group comprising Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, and was co-sponsored by other countries such as Turkey. (UN video Screengrab)
Updated on Oct 07, 2022 07:40 am IST

‘National interest first’: Wang cuts ties with Intel in solidarity with Xi

Intel faces mounting criticism in China after it asked suppliers not to use Xinjiang labor or products. The company sent a letter in December asking them not to use labor or procure goods and services sourced from the country’s far western region.
Published on Dec 23, 2021 10:52 am IST

Amnesty calls Xinjiang a ‘dystopian hellscape’

A family stands at the entrance to an underground retail street in Aksu in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Published on Jun 12, 2021 12:17 am IST

Guterres says UN negotiating with China on unfettered access to Xinjiang

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the media during a joint news conference in Berlin, Germany, December 17, 2020. Michael Sohn/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Published on Mar 29, 2021 02:56 pm IST

In rare visit, top Indian army commander in China’s Xinjiang that borders PoK

Lieutenant General Ranbir Singh, the chief of the Indian Army’s Northern Command on Thursday reached the northwestern frontier province of Xinjiang
Updated on Jan 09, 2020 10:50 pm IST

No religious repression in China’s Xinjiang: ‘Iron brother’ Pakistan

From denying the existence of the camps until October, China is now inviting diplomats and journalists to visit the province to take chaperoned tours of the “training institutes”.
Updated on Jan 24, 2019 05:01 pm IST

Learn Chinese, study law, play TT - first details emerge from Xinjiang's Uyghur camps

A United Nations human rights platform has been vocal in its criticism of the camps, saying it is targeting the minority community.
Updated on Oct 16, 2018 06:42 pm IST

What camps? says China on ‘million Uyghurs interned’ in Xinjiang

Local Muslims leaving a Mosque after Friday prayers in Hotan, in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomus Region on June 23, 2017.
Updated on Aug 14, 2018 03:31 pm IST

Muslims in China province detained in ‘re-education camps’, invasive surveillance on, say reports

In this Nov. 3, 2017 photo, residents are seen with security personnel on the streets of Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region. China’s “strike hard” campaign in remote Xinjiang is set to intensify in the month of Ramzan with reports saying monitoring of minority Muslim communities in the province had become invasive.
Updated on May 17, 2018 11:34 pm IST