A number of cross-party MEPs, including European Parliament Vice President Fabio Massimo Castaldo, have signed and authorised the issue of a press release on 5 Uyghur asylum seekers who are currently detained and facing deportation in Bulgaria. These asylum seekers face further detention, torture ...
Since April 2017, thousands of Uyghurs have been jailed or detained in re-education camps throughout the Xinjiang region. Accused of “extremist” or “politically incorrect” views, the 120,000 political prisoners are being held in horrible conditions; according to a security chief of the Kashgar ...
Source: Telegraph Reporters 26 JANUARY 2018 • 11:42AM More than 100,000 minority Uighur Muslims are reportedly being indefinitely detained in overcrowded “re-education” camps on China’s western border. The detention centres - reminiscent of Mao-era laogai forced labour camps - are ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Unrelenting risks of "terror" and separatist activity in China's far western region of Xinjiang require a prolonged security crackdown, state media said late on Sunday, after a year-long campaign that saw increased police deployment and heightened surveillance. China says ...
The United States Congressional Executive Commission on China (CECC) has issued a statement on the current human rights situation of Uyghurs living in the northwest of China, which – according to claims made therein – has significantly deteriorated since the 2017 CECC report on this same issue had ...
Reports have surfaced from the embattled Xinjiang province of China claiming that Han Chinese security forces have imprisoned an estimated 120,000 members of the Uighur minority in “reeducation camps,” nominally to stamp out radicalism in the Muslim ethnic group. Radio Free Asia (RFA), a ...
At least 120,000 members of China’s Muslim Uighur minority have been confined to political “re-education camps” redolent of the Mao era that are springing up across the country’s western borderlands, a report has claimed. Radio Free Asia (RFA), a US-backed news group whose journalists have ...