Activists want the US and Muslim countries to apply pressure on China to end its persecution of Turkic Muslim minority. by Shafik Mandhai 2 hours ago November 12 marks the establishment of two short-lived independent Uighur states ...
Members of the US Congress are stepping up pressure on China over its treatment of its Muslim Uyghur population. Lawmakers of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), led by senator Marco Rubio, said that they intend to nominate imprisoned Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti for ...
Move is likely to strain ties with China, which have already been tested since Mahathir won a stunning election in May. Malaysia freed 11 ethnic Uighur Muslims who fled to the Southeast Asian nation after a Thai jailbreak because they did nothing wrong, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad ...
France, Germany, the United States, and other Western countries called on China on Tuesday to close down political re-education camps that Uyghur activists and human rights experts say hold one million Uyghurs and other Muslims. The United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) began its ...
Will any of China’s neighbors speak out against its abuses at home? A major UN review offers a sobering assessment. The Silk Road Economic Belt. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. One Belt, One Road. The Belt and Road Initiative. From one year to another, it seems that the ambitions for ...
Australia's foreign minister raised China's internment of Uighur minorities in Xinjiang at a meeting with her Chinese counterpart on Thursday as Beijing comes under increasing international scrutiny over its controversial security policy. Marise Payne spoke after meeting with China's chief ...
"Break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins." These chilling words are stated in an internal document, reported by news agency AFP, and encapsulate Beijing’s policy towards its ethnic Uighur minority. At the United Nations Human Rights Council, Beijing ...
Uighurs are suppressed in China. Many have not yet been granted asylum in Germany. That should change now by a BAMF decision. By Arne Meyer-Fünffinger and Daniel Pokraka, ARD-Hauptstadtstudio "Uighurs who have been rejected and are still in Germany" receive "an examination of their case of ...