Beijing is now planning to combine all ethnic minorities into singular national identity
Beijing: China is believed to be engaging in the practice of combining all the different ethnic minorities in China into a singular national identity and thereby imposing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) ideology on them, media reports said on Friday.
Chinese authority forcing ethnic minority laborers in Xinjiang to pick cotton
Washington: A report has unveiled that the Chinese government is coercing hundreds of thousands of rural workers to carry out the grueling labour of handpicking cotton in the controversial Uyghur region of the country.
Evidence of forced Uyghur labour found within Xinjiang, other parts of China: British Minister
London: British foreign office minister Nigel Adams has said there is credible evidence of forced labour among Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region.
China: Big data program targets Xinjiang’s Muslims
A big data program for policing in China’s Xinjiang region arbitrarily selects Turkic Muslims for possible detention, US-based Human Rights Watch said recently.
US govt announces to block cotton import from forced labour camps in Xinjiang
Washington: The US government has said it will block cotton imports from forced labour camps in China's Xinjiang region where millions of Uyghur Muslims are persecuted.
Multinationals in US lobby against Xinjiang forced labour bill: Report
New York: Major multinational companies and business groups are lobbying Congress to weaken a bill that would ban imported goods made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, media reports said on Thursday.
China pressing minorities into mould of a new 'single nation-state': Report
Beijing: President Xi Jinping's government is promoting a less tolerant pan-Chinese identity that is pressing minorities into the mould of a new 'single nation-state', reports Asia Times.
UN says Kazakhstan illegally 'targeted' defender of Xinjiang indigenous groups
New York: The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has recently said the Kazakh government violated international human rights law last year by detaining activist Serikzhan Bilash.
Protests in Bangladesh, Nepal over persecution of Uyghurs in China
Dhaka: A protest rally and human chain was held on Thursday at Dhaka National Press Club by Islamic scholars and Ulemas under the banner of ‘Uyghur Muslim Rights Council’(Uyghur Musalmaner Odhikar Parishad) to demand political and religious rights for the persecuted people in Xinjaing Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Treatment of Chinese govt towards Uyghur is like Al-Qaeda's attitude to non-Muslims: Historian
Albanian historian Olsi Jazexhi has compared the treatment given towards Uyghur people by Chinese government with that of terrorist group Al-Qaeda's attitude towards non-Muslims.
UNGA: 39 countries target China over its policy towards Hong Kong, Xinjiang
Geneva: As many as 39 nations have condemned China's policy towards people in Hong Kong and Xinjiang regions.
Beijing is carrying out 'cultural genocide' in Xinjiang
Beijing: China is carrying out a 'cultural genocide' in Xinjiang region where thousands of people are believed to be kept in concentration camps, according to an article in The Atlantic.
China admits death of Uyghur man whose family says he was held in Xinjiang camps since 2017
London: In a rare stance, China has formally confirmed to the UN the death of a Uyghur man whose family believes he had been held in a Xinjiang internment camp since 2017, media reports said.
Japan: Tokyo witnesses demonstration against Chinese atrocities
Tokyo: Nearly 3,000 people, including the Tibetans, Uighurs, Mongolians, Hong Kongers and Taiwanese, protested against atrocities and human rights violations by China by marching from different parts of Tokyo on Saturday.
US: Lawmakers passes bill to force companies to disclose Xinjiang-sourced materials
Washington: Lawmakers in Lower House of the United States Congress on Wednesday passed legislation which will now require publicly listed companies in the US to disclose commercial links to China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Uygur Region, media reports said.