'Forced Migration' Of Uyghur Muslims From Xinjiang In China Through Job Placement Company, Shows Study
3 years, 1 month ago

'Forced Migration' Of Uyghur Muslims From Xinjiang In China Through Job Placement Company, Shows Study

ABP News  

New Delhi: A new study by think tank Policy Research Group has revealed forced migration of Uyghur Muslims in China from the Xinjiang province, reported ANI. According to the study, this minority community of China is being forced into migration to other parts of the country through a Chinese job placement company. The report stated that the company had floated an Around 3000 workers were displaced to other parts of the country from Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Fresh evidence of intimidation, harassment and surveillance of the Uyghur community had surfaced against China from the concentration camps in Xinjiang last month.

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Sinicisation of Islam inevitable: Senior CCP official in China's Xinjiang
10 months ago

Sinicisation of Islam inevitable: Senior CCP official in China's Xinjiang

Op India  

Ma Xingrui, a top official of the Communist Party of China, declared on 7th March that the “Sinicisation” of Islam in the province of northwest China, where Muslims predominate, is “inevitable.” The chief of the party’s Xinjiang unit was speaking to the media on the sidelines of the country’s annual parliamentary sessions in Beijing. He also emphasised the significance of …

US House panel on China highlights abuse of Uyghurs in second hearing
1 year, 9 months ago

US House panel on China highlights abuse of Uyghurs in second hearing

India Today  

A new U.S. congressional committee on China held its second hearing on Thursday, highlighting what Washington says is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China's Xinjiang region. Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses, including forced labor, mass surveillance and having placed 1 million or more Uyghurs - a mainly Muslim ethnic group - in a network …

Forced labour taking place in China's Xinjiang region, UN's top slavery expert says
2 years, 4 months ago

Forced labour taking place in China's Xinjiang region, UN's top slavery expert says

ABC  

It is "reasonable to conclude" that forced labour of members of minority groups has taken place in China's western Xinjiang region, the UN's top expert on slavery said in a report released this week. Key points: The UN's Special Rapporteur says forced labour is happening among Uyghur, Kazakh and other ethnic minorities His report says two distinct "state-mandated" systems exist …

EXPLAINED: Who Are The Uyghurs And How They're Linked To US And Allies' 'Boycott' Of Beijing Winter Games
3 years, 1 month ago

EXPLAINED: Who Are The Uyghurs And How They're Linked To US And Allies' 'Boycott' Of Beijing Winter Games

News 18  

The UK, Canada and Australia have joined the US in announcing a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Games that gets underway on February 4 next year with human rights abuses in Xinjiang being a major point of concern. A report by the Council on Foreign Relations says that incidents of rioting in 2009 in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi by …

China may be committing genocide against Uyghurs, warns US Holocaust Memorial Museum
3 years, 2 months ago

China may be committing genocide against Uyghurs, warns US Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Independent  

Get Nadine White's Race Report newsletter for a fresh perspective on the week's news Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent Get our free newsletter from The Independent's Race Correspondent SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said it was “gravely concerned that the …

Opinion: I was born in a Chinese ‘reeducation camp.’ I’m watching history repeat itself
3 years, 2 months ago

Opinion: I was born in a Chinese ‘reeducation camp.’ I’m watching history repeat itself

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Nury Turkel is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, vice chair at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and fellow of the Renew Democracy Initiative’s Frontlines of Freedom project. But to have any meaningful impact, the world’s leading democracies must pursue a bolder strategy aimed squarely at hitting China where it hurts – weaponizing import bans and …

170 Uyghur Muslims detained in XInjiang for praying during Eid: Reports
3 years, 4 months ago

170 Uyghur Muslims detained in XInjiang for praying during Eid: Reports

Op India  

The Chinese authorities had detained more than 170 Uyghur Muslims for questioning after they offered prayers without permission during the occasion of Eid-al-Adha, reported Radio Free Asia. Chinese authorities use ‘neighbourhood spies’ against Uyghur Muslims Radio Free Asia reported that the cops did not storm into mosques to verify the age of those attending religious prayers but instead employed ‘neighbourhood …

What you should know about China’s minority Uighurs
3 years, 6 months ago

What you should know about China’s minority Uighurs

Al Jazeera  

China’s treatment of the largely Muslim ethnic group from Xinjiang has become a source of international tension with Beijing, which insists it is tackling extremism, accused of genocide. In the late summer of 2018, the United Nations revealed that at least a million Uighurs had been detained in “counter-extremism centres” in China’s Xinjiang province, thrusting the treatment of a once-obscure …

Uighur exiles describe ‘torture’ in Xinjiang
3 years, 7 months ago

Uighur exiles describe ‘torture’ in Xinjiang

The Hindu  

Three Uighurs who fled from China to Turkey have described forced abortions and torture by Chinese authorities in the far western Xinjiang region, ahead of giving testimony to a people’s tribunal in London that is investigating if Beijing’s actions against the ethnic Uighurs amount to genocide. The three witnesses include a woman who said she was forced into an abortion …

Uyghur exiles describe forced abortions, torture in Xinjiang
3 years, 7 months ago

Uyghur exiles describe forced abortions, torture in Xinjiang

Associated Press  

ISTANBUL — Three Uyghurs who fled from China to Turkey have described forced abortions and torture by Chinese authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang region, ahead of giving testimony to a people’s tribunal in London that is investigating if Beijing’s actions against ethnic Uyghurs amount to genocide. The three witnesses include a woman who said she was forced into an …

China’s treatment of Uighurs is ‘crimes against humanity’: Report
3 years, 8 months ago

China’s treatment of Uighurs is ‘crimes against humanity’: Report

Al Jazeera  

Human Rights Watch is the latest to document policies of mass detention, torture and cultural persecution in Xinjiang. China is committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of the Uighur ethnic minority and other Turkic Muslims in the northwest region of Xinjiang, with Beijing responsible for “policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other offenses”, Human Rights Watch …

How Beijing silences Chinese voices against oppression of Uyghurs
3 years, 9 months ago

How Beijing silences Chinese voices against oppression of Uyghurs

LA Times  

A member of the Uyghur community living in Turkey joins a protest against China in Istanbul on Feb. 26. Mareike Ohlberg, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, has analyzed more than 3,000 procurement documents for “public opinion management” systems from Chinese government agencies ranging from traffic police in Lanzhou to Beijing’s High People’s Court. The court wanted 5,000 …

Who are the Uighur people and why do they face oppression by China?
3 years, 9 months ago

Who are the Uighur people and why do they face oppression by China?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Boris Johnson’s government has accused Beijing of “egregious” abuses …

Report rebukes claims on Xinjiang
3 years, 9 months ago

Report rebukes claims on Xinjiang

China Daily  

Local residents in Kuqa, China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, pose for pictures in a peach orchard, Feb. 24, 2021. People from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region who choose to work outside the region are mainly influenced by high-paying job opportunities, their families and friends, and the social environment, according to a new research report. The allegations that minorities in Xinjiang …

Report rebukes claims on Xinjiang
3 years, 9 months ago

Report rebukes claims on Xinjiang

China Daily  

Local residents in Kuqa, China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, pose for pictures in a peach orchard, Feb. 24, 2021. People from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region who choose to work outside the region are mainly influenced by high-paying job opportunities, their families and friends, and the social environment, according to a new research report. The allegations that minorities in Xinjiang …

Xinjiang Uyghurs: UK to fine companies that fail to disclose imports tied to Chinese region
3 years, 11 months ago

Xinjiang Uyghurs: UK to fine companies that fail to disclose imports tied to Chinese region

CNN  

London CNN Business — The British government will fine companies which hide connections to China’s Xinjiang region where Uyghurs and other minorities are allegedly subject to forced labor, under a raft of new measures. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday announced the new measures, which the Foreign Office says are designed to ensure that all British organizations “are not …

AP Interview: China signals shift but no letup in Xinjiang
4 years ago

AP Interview: China signals shift but no letup in Xinjiang

Associated Press  

BEIJING — An official from China’s Communist Party signaled Monday that there would likely be no letup in its crackdown in the remote Xinjiang region, but said the government’s focus is shifting more to addressing the roots of extremism. China’s policies in Xinjiang, home to the Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups, have become a major point of division …

Does 'large-scale forced labor' exist in Xinjiang?
4 years, 2 months ago

Does 'large-scale forced labor' exist in Xinjiang?

China Daily  

Workers make down-filled coats at a factory in Jiashi county, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, last month. Fact: People of all ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region voluntarily choose their jobs and they are never forced to work outside the region, according to an investigative report issued by the Development Research Center of Xinjiang. Although industries in the relatively …

Curse of Being Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang
4 years, 2 months ago

Curse of Being Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang

News 18  

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest administrative region in northwestern territory. And while over a million Uyghur and other ethnic Muslims are incarcerated in internment camps, China says ‘sinicisation of Islam’ has matured since it was put forward as a concept by Jinping in 2015. Six months later, in July 2019, China came up with a theory that …

China Says Xinjiang 'Concentration Camps' Necessitated By 'Islamic Radicalism' of Uyghur Muslims
4 years, 3 months ago

China Says Xinjiang 'Concentration Camps' Necessitated By 'Islamic Radicalism' of Uyghur Muslims

News 18  

Justifying its internment camps for Uyghur Muslims, the Chinese Communist Party regime has admitted that it has subjected, on an average around 1.3 million people to re-education since 2014. Though the paper used euphemisms like “vocational training centers” for concentration camps and “education and employment training” for coercive mind rewiring practices and human rights abuse, it blamed Islamist radicalism for …

Uighur Muslims face 'demographic genocide' while Islamists in Kashmir pander to China
4 years, 6 months ago

Uighur Muslims face 'demographic genocide' while Islamists in Kashmir pander to China

Op India  

While the repression of Uighurs Muslims in Xinjiang in China at the hands of the Communist Party is well known, Islamists in Kashmir were recently spotted cheering for the PLA during the ongoing Indo-China conflict. A report by the Associated Press sheds light on the reasons and measures taken by the Chinese State to ensure a ‘demographic genocide.’ With several …

What’s been happening in China’s Xinjiang, home to 11 million Uyghurs?
4 years, 6 months ago

What’s been happening in China’s Xinjiang, home to 11 million Uyghurs?

CNN  

CNN — As US President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Wednesday that aims to punish Beijing for its repression of the Uyghur ethnic minority, he was accused by his former national security adviser of endorsing China’s construction of internment camps in its western region of Xinjiang. According to an excerpt from John Bolton’s forthcoming book published in The …

Growing evidence Uighurs forced to work in China factories-report
4 years, 10 months ago

Growing evidence Uighurs forced to work in China factories-report

Al Jazeera  

Report finds Uighurs working in Chinese factories that are in the supply chains of 83 global brands. Tens of thousands of ethnic Uighurs were moved to work in conditions suggestive of “forced labour” in factories across China supplying 83 global brands, an Australian think-tank said in a report released on Sunday. “Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uighurs are …

China claims everyone in Xinjiang camps has ‘graduated’
5 years, 1 month ago

China claims everyone in Xinjiang camps has ‘graduated’

Associated Press  

BEIJING — People who were at vocational training centers in China’s far west Xinjiang have all ”graduated” and are living happy lives, an official said Monday. Shohrat Zakir, Xinjiang’s Uighur governor, made the remarks during a press briefing as part of a strident propaganda campaign launched following U.S. Congress’ approval last week of the Uighur Human Rights Policy Act. He …

Amid criticism over detention of Uyghur Muslims, China says around 13,000 ‘terrorists’ have been arrested in Xinjiang
5 years, 9 months ago

Amid criticism over detention of Uyghur Muslims, China says around 13,000 ‘terrorists’ have been arrested in Xinjiang

Firstpost  

China said on Monday it had arrested about 13,000 ’terrorists’ in a massive crackdown against militants in the volatile Uyghur Muslim-majority Xinjiang region since 2014, denying criticism that Beijing is ‘buying’ silence of the Muslim world with heavy investments in Pakistan and other Islamic countries. Beijing: China said on Monday it had arrested about 13,000 “terrorists” in a massive crackdown …

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