Uyghur Genocide

Key points: The Senate foreign affairs committee has recommended a ban on imports of products made using forced labour The 14 recommendations expand on Independent senator Rex Patrick's bill seeking a ban on products from China's Xinjiang province Human rights groups have welcomed the...

KASHGAR, China, June 17 (Reuters) - As visitors to China's Xinjiang enjoyed new theme park-style tourist centres showcasing the region's Muslim Uyghur culture on a recent national holiday, signs of heavy security and state surveillance were never far away. Tourists smiled and posed in...

While the G7 meets under the shadow of Covid 19 and the leaders of the most prosperous nations on earth are focused on rebuilding their economies, a bloodless pogrom is being inflicted on a group of people on the other side of the world. In this new era, killing people is wasteful and could...

The Belgian Parliament on Tuesday passed a joint motion recognising 'crimes against humanity' and a 'serious risk of genocide' being perpetrated against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, becoming the sixth parliament to acknowledge the genocide against Uyghurs.

A legal team acting on behalf of exiled Uyghur leaders has once again petitioned the International Criminal Court to investigate China's mass detention of the Muslim ethnic group. Lawyers for Uyghur exiles have pushed to hold President Xi Jinping accountable for allegations of genocide and...

Prague [Czech Republic], June 15 (ANI): The Czech Senate has voted unanimously on a motion labelling the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs Muslim and other ethnic and religious minorities as amounting to "genocide and crimes against humanity." The motion, approved by 38 votes to 0...

The largest Muslim advocacy organisation in the US urged Hilton Worldwide Holdings on Tuesday to drop plans to build a hotel on the site of a bulldozed mosque in China's Xinjiang region, Anadolu Agency reported. The call by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) came after a report...

The Belgian Parliament has declared Uyghurs and other minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) to be victims of Crimes Against Humanity and at serious risk of Genocide. The motion was passed with near unanimity, with only the Communist Party not voting in favour.  The...

WASHINGTON - Human rights activists and Uyghur experts have welcomed a "people's tribunal" initiated in London last week to probe whether China's alleged crimes against the Uyghurs amount to genocide, stressing the need for more practical action from the international community. A nine-member...