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Kazakhstan denies asylum to China 're-education camp' whistleblower
Ex-Soviet Kazakhstan has refused asylum to an escaped Chinese citizen whose court testimony helped expose a secretive network of re-education camps in China's restive Xinjiang region, her lawyer said Friday. Sayragul Sauytbay, 41, was denied political asylum by a migration committee in the Central Asian ...
China's Xinjiang crackdown turns to ethnic Kazakhs, tearing families apart
When he looks back on his youth in China's far-west region of Xinjiang, Akikat Kaliolla, an ethnic Kazakh, recalls the natural beauty and the big, colorful weddings typical of his majority-Muslim community. But now Emin County, where he grew up, is a sealed-off pocket in ...
China is working to develop a first-class, crack anti-terrorism force that can operate at home and abroad and protect the country's overseas interests, a senior Chinese officer said in comments carried by state media Saturday. In late 2015, China passed a new anti-terrorism law that ...
China is 'educating' Muslims to avoid extremism's spread, not mistreating them: Beijing official
China is not mistreating Muslims in Xinjiang province but is putting some people through training courses to avoid extremism spreading, unlike Europe, which had failed to deal with the problem, a Chinese official told reporters on Thursday. Reports of mass detentions of ethnic Uighurs and ...
China urged the United States on Wednesday to abandon its "prejudice" over Xinjiang, as the Trump administration considers sanctions against Chinese officials and companies linked to allegations of human rights abuses in the Chinese region. Discussions have gained momentum within the U.S. government over possible ...
Leading rights group calls for sanctions on China over mass detentions of Muslim minorities
The international community should impose sanctions on China over its treatment of minorities in its far west region, Human Rights Watch said Monday, where as many as 1 million people may have been swept up in mass detentions. China has long imposed draconian restrictions on ...
Chinese paper blames West for encouraging Xinjiang extremists
Turbulence in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang has been caused by "external factors," a state-run newspaper said Saturday in an editorial responding to calls by a group of U.S. lawmakers for sanctions on Chinese officials. "Western accusations of Xinjiang governance seriously misled the ...
As calls grow in the U.S. and Europe to pressure China to halt alleged abuses against its Muslim minority, Beijing has escaped serious criticism from the Islamic world. Almost three weeks after a United Nations official cited "credible reports" that China is holding as many ...
BuzzFeed reporter 'effectively' ejected from China after visa not renewed
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China said on Wednesday that the foreign ministry had "effectively" ejected BuzzFeed News's Beijing bureau chief from the country after declining to renew her visa. Megha Rajagopalan, who is American and had been in China for six years, said on ...
U.N. says it has credible reports China is holding 1 million Uighurs in secret camps
A United Nations human rights panel said Friday it has received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are being held in what resembles a "massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy." Gay McDougall, a member of the U.N. Committee on ...
China's 're-education centers' draw attention in Kazakhstan trial of former worker at Xinjiang camp
Secretive "re-education centers" allegedly holding hundreds of thousands of people in a Muslim-majority region in western China are the focus of an explosive court case in Kazakhstan, testing the country's ties with Beijing. On trial is Sayragul Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh Chinese national who is ...
'Eradicate the tumors': Chinese civilians drive Xinjiang crackdown on separatism
The civilian group descended on the village under government instructions to "win the people's hearts," but it also had a darker mission: identifying and punishing threats to the Chinese state. Four months after the Communist Party sent the "work team" to Akeqie Kanle, a fifth ...
