The daughter of Ilham Tohti, a Uighur intellectual who has been imprisoned in China, has said she does not know if her father is alive. Jewher Ilham made the remark after accepting a top European human rights prize on behalf of her father. Ilham Tohti was jailed for life on separatism charges in ...
18 December 2019, 10:38 UTC By Nicholas Bequelin, Regional Director at Amnesty International Mesut Ozil’s social media post about the political situation in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has prompted an angry response from the Chinese authorities. The Arsenal footballer’s accusation ...
Members of Lithuanian Parliament to Xi Jinping: Stop Persecuting Uyghurs, Tibetans, The Church of Almighty God, Falun Gong In a letter of December 10, 29 MPs and one member of the European Parliament from Lithuania write to the Chinese President denouncing the repression of all ...
Arsenal have distanced themselves from comments made by Mesut Özil on Instagram, in which he spoke out strongly against China’s persecution of the Uighur population in the north-western region of Xinjiang and criticised Muslims for not doing more to highlight the issue. The club sought to limit ...
Volkswagen and BASF among German groups caught in mounting controversy Ross Anthony, a China researcher at Stellenbosch University in South Africa who has spent months working in Xinjiang, said such an approach was not enough. “Western companies just should not be in the region at all,” he said. ...
The documents were the foundation of stories last month by NBC News and journalists around the world on the inner workings of the Uighur camps in China. A middle-aged Uighur woman living in the Netherlands told a Dutch paper in a story published Saturday that she was a source who leaked secret ...
President says China has plenty of money amid market jitters about trade talks and Beijing vow to be ‘strong backup’ for Hong Kong police Donald Trump has called for the World Bank to stop lending money to China, a day after the institution adopted a lending plan to Beijing despite Washington’s ...
ESPITE ITS veto-wielding power in the United Nations, China has long been reluctant to stick its neck out. It has been 20 years since it last stood alone in exercising that right. But in the UN’s backrooms, the country’s diplomats are showing greater willingness to flex muscle, and their Western ...
WASHINGTON - A U.S. State Department official accused China of attempting to erase the Muslim identity of Uighurs by seeking to demolish or close places of worship in Xinjiang in northwest China. The official, who spoke to VOA on the condition of anonymity, said the Chinese Communist Party in its ...