Uyghur Genocide

AKSU, China (AP) — A backlash against reports of forced labor and other abuses of the largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang is taking a toll on China’s cotton industry, but it’s unclear if the pressure will compel the government or companies to change their ways. Li Qiang, general...

KASHGAR, CHINA – A former Muslim leader at China’s largest mosque in the country’s far-western Xinjiang region was incarcerated by Chinese authorities in 2017, accused of having spread extremism, sources close to the matter have said. In addition to the person who led prayers in the mosque,...

n underground railroad into Pakistan offered Uyghur Muslims a route to safety. But the only country in the world founded as a Muslim nation is no longer a safe haven for the Uyghurs. ISLAMABAD – Umer Mohammed Khan enters a nondescript concrete building near Islamabad through metal sliding...

By Bahtiyar Bora The Uyghur people of north-west China are now the most persecuted group on the planet with one million people locked up in “re-education” camps and numerous atrocities occurring daily. The U.S. government, the parliaments of the U.K., Canada and The Netherlands now all say...

While the Pakistani government has been outspoken about Charlie Hebdo cartoons in France, raising the Palestine issue, but somehow have decided to not discuss the issue of Uyghur Muslims in public. On Thursday (May 20), an outspoken Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was taken...

‘High time’ for EU countries to quit Beijing’s diplomatic initiative, Lithuanian foreign minister tells POLITICO. Lithuania has dropped out of China's "17+1" group and urged other EU countries to follow suit, the Baltic state's foreign minister told POLITICO. "There is no such thing as 17+1...

The move is the latest in a series of motions passed by world parliaments and governments making the designation. The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday passed a motion condemning China for what it called China’s policy of genocide against Uyghur Muslims in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur...

URUMQI, China — China has highlighted an unlikely series of videos this year in which Uighur men and women deny US charges that Beijing is committing human rights violations against their ethnic group. In fact, a text obtained by the AP shows that the videos are part of a government campaign...

VILNIUS (Reuters) - The parliament in Lithuania on Thursday became the latest to describe China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority as “genocide”, voting to call for a U.N. investigation of internment camps and to ask the European Commission to review relations with Beijing. The Biden...