Concentration Camps

Members of Vancouver’s Uyghur community protested outside Premier John Horgan’s riding office April 12, to support the decision not to keep a controversial ex-judge as an advisor. Kabir Qurban, a Simon Fraser University student, took time-off studying for exams to travel to the capital with...

Motion scheduled as more than 100 parliamentarians sign letter to Boris Johnson calling for sanctions on leading Chinese Communist Party officials

In 2017, my family’s nightmare began: Over four decades, my father, Mamat Abdullah, had served China in many posts, including in the 1990s as the mayor of Korla, the second-largest city in the Xinjiang region. He helped open up trade with other parts of China for Korla’s agricultural products,...

In an age of fast fashion and even faster news, staying ‘woke’ presents itself as an exhausting task. Only this isn’t just another uninformed or offensive marketing faux pas; the topic of forced labour in Xinjiang involves one million people and demands everyone's attention. Uighur Muslims...

Kagome first major Japanese corporation to cut ties over Uyghur issue

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced more than a dozen former residents of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who have testified about abuses in the region while living abroad as liars, criminals, terrorists, and persons of “bad morality,” including an RFA Uyghur Service...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced a bill to expedite refugee applications from Uighurs, matching an effort in the U.S. House of Representatives to assist members of the largely Muslim ethnic group that advocates say face persecution in China....

The deepening courtship between these two authoritarian regimes will only intensify the plight of Uyghurs in both countries. The incidents in China are, simply put, a genocide. There’s no point in interpreting this otherwise,” said Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2009, almost twelve...

Michael Chong is the Conservative foreign affairs critic and MP for Wellington-Halton Hills.