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,

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

Chinese officials restrict the number of Uyghurs who can observe Ramadan — Radio Free Asia

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Tursunjan Mamat sets down a copy of the Quran during a government organized visit for foreign journalists to his home in Aksu prefecture, northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 20, 2021. Credit: Associated Press

” Ramadan procedures are being taken,” stated a village cop in Kashgars Tokkuzak (Toukezhake) municipality. Celebrations religious policy. The party never stated to eliminate faith, however to Sinicize it.” ” This system is developed to avoid religious beliefs to have unfavorable results on childrens minds,” he stated. A cadre from the village is registering individuals

World Bank investment arm complicit in China’s repression of Uyghurs, report says — Radio Free Asia

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World Bank investment arm complicit in China’s repression of Uyghurs, report says — Radio Free Asia

The World Banks economic sector lending arm provided nearly half a billion dollars to 4 Chinese companies accused of using Uyghur forced labor in Chinas far-western Xinjiang area, according to an investigative report released Thursday. The International Financial Corporation (IFC) has a number of investments in the region, where mainly Muslim Uyghurs and other Turkic

Uyghurs still push for accountability 25 years after Ghulja Massacre — Radio Free Asia

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Chinese security forces prepare to face off with Uyghur protesters in Ghulja in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, February 1997, in a screenshot from a video of a Chinese television report smuggled out of China. Credit: UK's Channel 4 News report/YouTube

Massive clean-up operation. In the consequences of the crackdown, a short article titled “Lets discover the terrorist mask of East Turkistan terrorists” released by Chinas main Xinhua news firm called the demonstrators, “insurgents.”. Following the event, the Chinese government used the demonstration as a pretext to perform a year-long massive “clean-up operation” throughout Xinjiang under

Japanese Parliament passes resolution on human rights situation in China — Radio Free Asia

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Japanese Parliament passes resolution on human rights situation in China — Radio Free Asia

Japans Parliament embraced a resolution on Tuesday revealing concern over the human rights circumstance in China, including the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the crackdown in Hong Kong, calling on its federal government to take procedures to attend to the circumstance. In the unusual rights motion passed 2 days prior to the start of

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