Kodak released a statement on Tuesday apologizing for content it posted on Instagram from French photographer Patrick Wack that highlighted the mass detentions of the Uighurs in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region after backlash from Beijing supporters. In his caption, Wack wrote his images depicted the "mass arbitrary detention system being set up in the region," and Xinjiang's "abrupt descent into an Orwellian dystopia" over the past five...

OTTAWA, CANADA: More than 200 people across Canada joined a rally outside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office in Ottawa to call the Canadian government to take action to stop the Uyghur genocide. The protest occurred on Sunday and was joined by women and children. An Uyghur Muslim, Bilal Malik, completed his 15 days March to Ottawa and reached the PM office to deliver a joint letter signed by various organisations. They urged the...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide said on Monday that a March 10 cyber attack on the Nordic country's parliament e-mail system was carried out from China, calling on authorities there to take steps to prevent such activity in future. "This is a serious incident which has hit our most important democratic institution," Soereide said in a statement. An investigation by the country’s intelligence services had...

By putting one foot in front of the other, sometimes slowly and sometimes with quicker strides, Bilal Malik says he desperately hopes the government will listen to what he has to say. The 36-year-old is nearing the end of a roughly 15-day, 380-kilometre “Freedom March” from Toronto to the steps of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. He wants to persuade Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to pronounce the systemic abuse and human rights...

An American family determined to keep the plight of Uyghurs in the public eye have set out on a grueling 780-kilometer “Peaceful Protest Pilgrimage” across the Coloradan wilderness to raise awareness of the genocide happening in Xinjiang, and pray for the Uyghur nation. Taking inspiration from the network of ancient pilgrim routes across Spain, known as the  Camino de Santiago, Nathan Duddles, founder of the Silk Road Peace Initiative...

WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Wednesday to ban the import of products from China's Xinjiang region, the latest effort in Washington to punish Beijing for what U.S. officials say is an ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim groups. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act would create a "rebuttable presumption" assuming goods manufactured in Xinjiang are made with forced labor and therefore...

The Chinese government has detained more than 1m of them in prison camps, under the guise of counter-terrorism FIVE YEARS ago, few people in the West had heard of Uyghurs. Since then they have become a focus of international criticism of China, which is accused of committing grave human-rights abuses against the Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in the country’s far west. China’s actions in Xinjiang, where the majority of Uyghurs live, have...

The Canadian senate’s refusal to support a bill that labels China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as genocide is "symptomatic of the Chinese communist government's infiltration and influence in Canadian politics and a cause for alarm," according to a Richmond group.  On June 29, a motion to declare the situation in China a genocide, was defeated in the upper chamber, with 33 senators voting against the bill, 29 voting in...

Few relationships are as close as the bond between Canada and the United Kingdom. We have been joined in battle, from the fields of Vimy and the Somme, to the deserts of Afghanistan. We are the only two countries that are members of the G7, NATO, the G20, and the Commonwealth. We work together to promote our fundamental values, exemplified by the Canada-UK Media Freedom Award, and we hope to have a new trade deal in short order. Our...