EU lawmakers find ‘serious risk of genocide’ in China’s repression of Uyghurs — Radio Free Asia

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Members of the European Parliament on Thursday easily passed a resolution calling the Chinese government’s systemic human rights abuses against the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority “crimes against humanity and a serious risk of genocide.” The EU condemned “in the strongest possible terms that the Uyghurs have been systematically oppressed by brutal measures including mass deportation,

Uyghur group slams UN rights czar over ‘wasted opportunity’ during trip to Xinjiang — Radio Free Asia

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Summit attendees listen to a recording of the national anthem of East Turkestan, the name Uyghurs use to refer to their homeland in northwestern China, at a conference hall in Munich, Germany, May 26, 2022. Credit: RFA

A Uyghur rights group on Saturday expressed “serious disappointment” in the outcome of U.N. Human Rights czar Michelle Bachelet’s trip to Xinjiang, which it said had amounted to “a propaganda opportunity for China to whitewash its crimes against humanity and genocide against the Uyghur people.”  Ahead of the visit, rights groups demanded assurances that the

UN rights chief’s office announces dates of China visit, including Xinjiang — Radio Free Asia

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Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, gives a press conference in Iran's capital Tehran, May 18, 2022. Credit: AFP

The U.N.’s human rights chief on Monday will begin a six-day official visit to China, including to the far-western Xinjiang region where widespread abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities at the hands of Chinese authorities are said to have occurred. The trip is the culmination of years of effort by exiled Uyghurs to draw

Xinjiang officials said to pay Uyghurs to perform dance at Kashgar mosque — Radio Free Asia

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Uyghur musicians play their instruments atop the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, northwestern China's Xinjiang region, while other Uyghurs dance in the square below, May 3, 2022. Credit: China News Service video screenshot

Authorities in Kashgar allegedly paid Muslim Uyghur men to dance outside the most famous mosque in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region to celebrate the end of Ramadan, a performance that was filmed and released by state media ahead of an anticipated visit by the United Nations human rights chief later this month. Kashgar locals told RFA

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