Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, attends a demonstration against China in front of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in November 2019. Dolkun Isa, the president of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) exile group, is used to being on the receiving end of hostile Chinese propaganda campaigns, but the latest state media slander story carried sad news: His father had passed away. The news cam ...

  China is being asked to allow UN human rights experts and independent researchers into Xinjiang, rather than invite tourists into Xinjiang. China is facing international condemnation for its treatment of Uyghurs, including claims they are being put into a network of concentration camps and restricted from contact with the outside world. The Chinese Consulate in Auckland this month said it wanted fore ...

A demonstrator joins members of the Uighur community and sympathisers at a protest on the Dam square in the Netherlands on Dec 29, 2019.PHOTO: EPA-EFE By Reuters     Jan. 9, 2020 WASHINGTON — A U.S. congressional report called for sanctions against China over human rights abuses, and for U.S. officials to keep rights concerns in mind during dealings with Beijing, including trade negotiations. The annual hum ...

AFP-JIJI WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers called Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions over rights abuses in China as they released a report describing “crimes against humanity” against the Uighur minority. In a wide-ranging annual report, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which tracks human rights in the Asian power, voiced alarm at Beijing’s incarceration of m ...

Workers in uniform at a labor compound in eastern Xinjiang, China, in 2017. By Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, Dec. 30, 2019 KASHGAR, China — The order from Chinese officials was blunt and urgent. Villagers from Muslim minorities should be pushed into jobs, willing or not. Quotas would be set and families penalized if they refused to go along. “Make people who are hard to employ renounce their selfish ideas ...