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China fear 'Terror group' in Xinjiang amid US withdrawal from Afgh
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks 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
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Indian-origin journalist wins Pulitzer Prize for exposing China's
Updated : 4 months, 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.
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Hard to find greater a 'hypocrite' than Imran Khan: Analysts on Pa
Updated : 12 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"
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Rights defender Hillel Neuer slams China for atrocities against Ui
Updated : 1 year, 1 month 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
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'US doesn't recognise Chinese Communist Party as legitimate system
Updated : 1 year, 2 months 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.
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Muslim Uighurs are forcibly put in concentration camps in China: H
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 01 (ANI): M Hashim Qureshi, Chairman of J-K Democratic Liberation Party, has highlighted the treatment meted by the Chinese Communist Party to Muslim and Christians, saying Muslim Uighurs are put in concentration camps in Xinjiang province.
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US shutting China's Houston consulate aimed at reducing Beijing's
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 29 (ANI): The shutting down of the Chinese consulate in Houston indicates that the US is likely making it an example in order to achieve its goal of a reduction in Beijing's espionage activities without taking even harsher measures, such as shuttering its San Franci
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France demands free entry of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Paris [France], July 22 (ANI): French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has demanded free entry of international independent observers and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to China's western province of Xinjiang, home to about one million Uighurs.
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Beijing faces criticism for human rights violations in Xinjiang
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], July 21 (ANI): During a hearing before the House of Commons human-rights subcommittee, several experts called out China for human rights violation in Xinjiang where Beijing has locked up millions of Uyghurs.
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US sanctions additional 11 Chinese firms over human rights violati
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 21 (ANI): The United States on Monday (local time) announced sanctions against a new group of 11 Chinese companies for their alleged involvement in human rights violations in China's western province of Xinjiang, home to about 1 million Uighurs Muslims.
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'United States will continue to shine the light of truth on Xinjia
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], July 14 (ANI): US National Security Advisor Robert C. O'Brien has hit out at China for "horrifying repression" of Uighurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang province while saying that US will continue to "shine the light of truth" on Xinjiang.
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China to finally be tried at International Criminal Court for tort
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The Hague [Netherlands], July 10 (ANI): After years of getting tortured for their identity, the Uighurs have finally approached the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking justice.
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