China's police state goes global, leaving Xinjiang refugees in fear
Muslims who escaped China's crackdown in Xinjiang province still live in fear, saying new homes abroad and even Western passports afford them no protection against a state-driven global campaign of intimidation. With menacing text and voice messages, and explicit threats to relatives still living in ...
Nearly 40 countries defend China over Xinjiang internment camps in U.N. letter
U.N. ambassadors from 37 countries released a letter Friday defending China's treatment of Uighur and other minorities in the Xinjiang region, in direct response to Western criticism earlier this week. Envoys from across the EU — along with Australia, Canada and Japan and New Zealand ...
Japan among 22 nations issuing rebuke over China's detention of Uighurs
U.N. experts and activists say at least 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims are held in detention centers in the remote western region.
China locks down Xinjiang a decade after deadly ethnic riots
A decade after deadly riots tore through his hometown, Kamilane Abudushalamu still vividly recalls the violence that left him an exile. On July 5, 2009, Abudushalamu was hiding with his father on the 10th floor of an office tower in Urumqi, the capital of China's ...
Activist Rebiya Kadeer calls on Japan to highlight persecution of Uighurs as Osaka G20 begins
As the Group of 20 summit formally kicked off in Osaka on Friday, Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent political activist for China's Uighur ethnic minority, urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to highlight Beijing's alleged persecution of the majority-Muslim group in the country's far west, slamming ...
Uighur activist allowed to visit Japan for G20 summit despite protest by Beijing
A prominent political activist for China's Uighur ethnic minority, Rebiya Kadeer, will be allowed into Japan during this week's Group of 20 leaders' summit, her supporters have said. Japanese government sources have confirmed Tokyo issued a visa to Kadeer, despite calls not to do so ...
Belgium says it will work toward giving visas to once-missing Uighur family in China
Belgium says it is working toward providing visas to a Uighur family that went missing after being escorted out of its embassy in Beijing last week under murky circumstances. The woman and her four children disappeared for weeks, alarming her husband, before reportedly being located ...
Belgium seeks Uighur family in Xinjiang after police took them from its Beijing embassy
A Belgian diplomat was expected to travel to China's restive Xinjiang region on Tuesday to confirm the whereabouts of a Uighur family that was escorted from Belgium's embassy in Beijing by police last month. The disappearance of the woman and her four children has alarmed ...
Huawei tells U.K. Parliament it is not bound by Chinese spy laws
Huawei's cybersecurity chief told the U.K. Parliament Monday that the Chinese telecom giant has been advised it was under no obligation to spy for Beijing if so asked by the communist state. John Suffolk told a committee hearing that Huawei has sought guidance from its ...
Exiled Uighur leader urges pressure on China as he receives U.S. award
An exiled Uighur leader called for more concerted international pressure on China to end its mass detention of the ethnic group as he received a U.S. award. The National Endowment for Democracy, which is funded by the U.S. Congress to promote democracy worldwide, gave its ...
U.S. weighs blacklisting five Chinese video surveillance firms over treatment of Uighurs
The U.S. is considering cutting off the flow of vital American technology to five Chinese companies including Megvii, widening a dragnet beyond Huawei to include world leaders in video surveillance as it seeks to challenge China's treatment of minority Uighurs in the country's northwest. The ...
China changes university entrance exam rules to favor mixed families in troubled Xinjiang
China's fractious far-west region of Xinjiang has changed its university entrance exam rules to give children from mixed families a leg up on other students, in what experts say are the latest efforts to erase a mostly Muslim ethnic culture. Following a flare-up in violence ...
