Tag: Xinjiang
about 1 year ago
telegraph.co.uk

HSBC admits putting human rights at risk in China pivot

Bank's strategic shift to Asia faces scrutiny as MPs accuse it of siding with Beijing

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over 3 years ago
theguardian.com

Poetry, the soul of Uighur culture, on verge of extinction in Xinjiang

Uighurs in the diaspora are fighting to keep the art form alive as poets and writers in Xinjiang are silenced or deta...

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over 3 years ago
theguardian.com

Thousands of Uighur children orphaned by Chinese detention, papers show

Researcher says Xinjiang files show government move to long-term social control

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over 3 years ago
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Disney remake of Mulan criticised for filming in Xinjiang

Film credits offer thanks to eight government entities in region where rights abuses are documented

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over 3 years ago
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Uighur Muslim teacher tells of forced sterilisation in Xinjiang

Chinese government threatened woman when she resisted in move to suppress Muslim minority birth rates

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over 3 years ago
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Xinjiang residents handcuffed to their homes in Covid lockdown

Measures in capital of semi-autonomous region include being made to take traditional medicine despite no new cases in...

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about 4 years ago
theguardian.com

China transferred detained Uighurs to factories used by global brands – report

At least 80,000 Uighurs working under ‘conditions that strongly suggest forced labour’

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over 4 years ago
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China claims detained Uighurs have been freed

Xinjiang governor offers no evidence of release but says ‘trainees’ have found stable jobs

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over 4 years ago
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China considers banning 'odious' US politicians over Xinjiang criticism

State-run Global Times suggests visa restrictions are coming and that Hong Kong-related sanctions are just the beginning

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over 4 years ago
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TikTok sorry for blocking teenager who disguised Xinjiang video as make-up tutorial

Chinese-owned video sharing platform blocked Feroza Aziz after she posted film disguised as makeup tutorial

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over 4 years ago
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TikTok 'makeup tutorial' goes viral with call to action on China's treatment of Uighurs

Teenager claims video sharing platform is censoring her posts, which TikTok denies

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over 4 years ago
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'Show no mercy': leaked documents reveal details of China's Xinjiang detentions

More than 400 pages leaked to New York Times by Chinese political insider document brutal crackdown on Muslim minority

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over 4 years ago
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China footage reveals hundreds of blindfolded and shackled prisoners

Video shows what appear to be Uighur or other minority prisoners led away by police

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almost 5 years ago
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Uighur man held after leaking letters from Xinjiang camp inmates, says family

Abdurahman Memet believed notes from his parents and brother were proof they had been imprisoned in Chinese ‘re-educa...

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about 5 years ago
theguardian.com

Revealed: new evidence of China's mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang

Guardian and Bellingcat investigation finds more than two dozen Islamic religious sites partly or completely demolish...

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about 5 years ago
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Xinjiang detention camps may be phased out, governor suggests

Top Uighur official says there will be fewer and fewer students at centres thought to house a million people

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about 5 years ago
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Fears for Uighur comedian missing amid crackdown on cultural figures

Adil Mijit worked for a government arts troupe for 30 years, but his family fear he has been taken into a re-educatio...

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about 5 years ago
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Chinese surveillance company tracking 2.5m Xinjiang residents

Internet expert exposes unsecured database believed to be targeting Muslim minorities

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over 5 years ago
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Families of missing Uighurs call for 'proof of life' videos from Chinese government

Hashtag #MeTooUyghur follows the release of a video proving a Uighur musician was still alive

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over 5 years ago
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China releases video of Uighur poet said to have died in custody

Beijing hits back at Turkey over Abdurehim Heyit after criticism of Uighurs’ treatment

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over 5 years ago
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China's Muslim detention camps – podcast

Up to a million Muslims are being held in detention camps in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. The Guardian’s Lily Ku...

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over 5 years ago
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'If you enter a camp, you never come out': inside China's war on Islam

In Hotan, documents show officials are expanding detention camps and increasing surveillance

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over 5 years ago
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UK confirms reports of Chinese mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims

Criticism is mounting over reports of mass camps in the western territory of Xinjiang

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over 5 years ago
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From denial to pride: how China changed its language on Xinjiang's camps

Beijing now proudly parades ‘humane management and care’ at internment camps, after denying their existence for months

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over 5 years ago
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Internment camps make Uighurs' life more colourful, says Xinjiang governor

China on defensive over camps where ex-prisoners have told of arbitrary detention, abuse and indoctrination

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over 5 years ago
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Pakistan criticises China over treatment of ethnic Muslims

Minister urges Beijing to soften restrictions on minorities in Xinjiang after reports of abuses

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over 5 years ago
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China claims Muslim detention camps are education centres

Ex-inmates tell of abuse in camps holding more than 1 million ethnic minorities

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over 5 years ago
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'My soul, where are you?': families of Muslims missing in China meet wall of silence

An estimated 1 million Muslims are being held in re-education camps in Xinjiang. Across the border in Kazakhstan, the...

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over 5 years ago
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US considers sanctions on China over treatment of Uighurs

Economic penalties in response to reports of mass detentions of Muslims would be a rare US confrontation of Beijing o...

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almost 6 years ago
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China denies violating minority rights amid detention claims

UN panel says 1m ethnic Uighur Muslims being held in internment camps in Xinjiang

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almost 6 years ago
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China: one in five arrests take place in 'police state' Xinjiang

Xinjiang, home to about 12 million Muslims, has been the focus of an intense government crackdown

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