Search For "uighur"
China fear 'Terror group' in Xinjiang amid US withdrawal from Afgh
Updated : 2 weeks, 6 days ago IST
Beijing [China], July 8 (ANI): Amid the ongoing US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, China is worried about the instability to come in the country, a revival of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), its cross-border agitation and terrorism in Xinjiang region, said scholar Salman Rafi
Read More
Indian-origin journalist wins Pulitzer Prize for exposing China's
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
New York [US], June 12 (ANI): Indian origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan, along with two contributors, has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed secretly built China's mass detention camps for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province.
Read More
Xinjiang facing worst kind of ethnic genocide, says activist
Updated : 5 months ago IST
Xinjiang [China], February 23 (ANI): The Xinjiang autonomous region is facing the worst kind of cultural and ethnic genocide at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said an Uighur activist.
Read More
Uyghur women not 'emancipated' by forced abortions, sterilisations
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], January 12 (ANI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reacted sharply to Chinese Embassy tweet about Uighur women being "emancipated" from extremism and were no longer "baby-making machines", stating that forced abortions and sterilizations do not emancipate them.
Read More
Japan mulls US-style law to deal with human rights issues in China
Updated : 8 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], November 12 (ANI): Amid growing criticism against China for its human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Japan is mulling a legal foundation for sanctions, similar to those imposed by the US and Europe.
Read More
Hard to find greater a 'hypocrite' than Imran Khan: Analysts on Pa
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 30 (ANI): As Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan raised the issue of Islamophobia and attacked French President Emmanuel Macron over his remarks on Islamist radicalism, analysts have questioned Khan's "hypocrisy" and selective outrage over the "hatred against Muslims"
Read More
Germany, Western allies slam China's human rights record, call for
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
New York [USA], October 7 (ANI): In a United Nations speech on Tuesday, supported by 38 other countries, Germany criticised China’s human rights record and called on the world to accept persecuted Uyghur Muslims as refugees, reported South China Morning Post.
Read More
Allow 'meaningful access' to Xinjiang for independent observers: E
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 26 (ANI): European Union has called on China to allow meaningful access to Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region for independent observers, including for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Read More
Rights defender Hillel Neuer slams China for atrocities against Ui
Updated : 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): Human Right Defender Hillel Neuer tore into China at the United Nations Human Right Councils (UNHRC) for its massive human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province and slammed countries who backed Beijing by turning a blind eye towar
Read More
US House approves bill to ban imports from China's Xinjiang
Updated : 10 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): The US House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would effectively ban imports from China's Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region due to the suspected use of state-sponsored forced labour there.
Read More
Growing calls for UN to probe gross human rights violations in Xin
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], August 30 (ANI): As China continues with its massive human rights abuses in Xinjiang, there have been growing calls for a probe by UN commission into the relentless oppression of Uighur Muslims.
Read More
'US doesn't recognise Chinese Communist Party as legitimate system
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], August 8 (ANI): A senior US diplomat has said the Donald Trump administration does not consider the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a "legitimate system" of governance.
Read More