Penny Wong calls for Australia to consider targeted sanctions on foreign entities directly profiting from forced Uyghur labour
The Morrison government must explain whether it sees human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region as a case of genocide, the federal opposition says.
Labor’s...
Mihrigul Tursun was one of more than 40 women in a 40-square metre underground cell.
In Xinjiang, north-west China, they were chained at the wrists and ankles. It was their prison and their toilet. It had just one small hole in the ceiling for ventilation.
The women, Tursun said, were...
China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) meets international legal definitions of “crimes against humanity” and merits a U.N. inquiry, sanctions and efforts to prosecute responsible officials, human rights researchers said in a report...
Restrictions on fasting during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan have eased in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in recent years, but residents continue to refrain from doing so, according to local authorities, suggesting a lingering fear of being branded an “extremist” and marked...
Key points: Mirzat Taher, an Australian permanent resident and Uyghur, has been detained in China His wife Mehray Mezensof, who lives in Melbourne, is speaking out for the first time A new report by Human Rights Watch says China is committing "crimes against humanity" in Xinjiang
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet may be unwilling to call China’s treatment of the Uyghurs genocide, but that’s not stopping a Canadian Crown corporation from doing so.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is holding an virtual event Thursday billed as Exposing the...
China is arbitrarily detaining up to 1 million people in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said Monday. The group said China is justifying its repression in the language of a "global war on terrorism." HRW said Chinese authorities are committing "crimes against humanity," but didn't label it...