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Congress' Adhir Ranjan writes to Mamata Banerjee on 'pathetic, miserable'
Updated : 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 21 (ANI): Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday wrote to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seeking her attention to the "pathetic and miserable condition" of the Muslim minority in the state.
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Owaisi accuses Shivraj Singh Chouhan of bias against minority community
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], April 13 (ANI): All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday slammed Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for demolishing the houses of the accused involved in the violence during Ram Navami procession in Kharg
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Violence against Shia Muslims continues unabated in Pakistan
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 7 (ANI): Pakistan's largest Muslim minority, Shias Muslims are living under the shadow of fear post a terror attack by a suicide bomber on a Shia mosque in Peshawar during Friday prayers.
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CCP will utilize Beijing Olympics to whitewash genocide, say rights activi
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): A few days ahead of the Beijing Olympics, several Uyghur activists and human rights experts at a webinar argued that the Winter Games will implicitly approve of the rights violation of the Muslim minority community in China.
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US House passes bill to ban imports from China's Xinjiang
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill by a vote of 428 to 1 banning imports from China's Xinjiang made with forced labour and threatening sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for persecuting the minority community.
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New evidence shows China's repression of Uyghurs
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
Beijing [China], November 19 (ANI): Fresh evidence has emerged against China showing surveillance, intimidation and harassment of members of the Uyghur Muslim minority community at concentration camps in China's Xinjiang region.
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China's new strategies to control Uyghurs include community policing, targ
Updated : 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 21 (ANI): China has now come up with a new strategy to control the Muslim minority Uyghurs which includes community policing and targeting users of Mobile app Zapya.
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French artist paints portrait of Uyghur activist on building in Marseille
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Paris [France] October 20 (ANI): A French artist painted a portrait of an activist from the Uyghur community on a building in Marseille city, in a bid to raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Muslim minority group in China's Xinjiang region.
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Former Chinese policeman reveals chilling account of Uyghurs in China's Xi
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
London [UK], June 8 (ANI): After a four-day hearing at a London-based tribunal on the treatment of Uyghurs, chilling testimony regarding torture of the Muslim minority has been revealed by a witness depicting blatant humans rights violation taking place in northwest China's Xinjiang province
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Upcoming UN meet on Uyghur crackdown upsets China
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Beijing [China], May 11 (ANI): Fuming over an upcoming UN video conference on Beijing's crackdown on the Uyghur Muslims, China has called on members of the United Nations not to attend the event, saying it "is based on sheer lies and political bias".
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Uyghur body supports complaint against French brands over link to forced l
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Munich [Germany], April 10 (ANI): A pro-Uyghur body has endorsed the formal complaint submitted by a French lawyer against four France-based multinational companies over allegations of their involvement in forced labour of the Muslim minority group in China
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The saga of China's crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 14 (ANI): China's sweeping crackdown on Muslim ethnic minority, Uyghurs in Xinjiang since 2017 in the name of counterterrorism has drawn global ire, particularly US State Department, that has classified it as 'genocide', reported The Washington Post.
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