U.S. President Donald Trump should “immediately enforce” sanctions versus Chinese officials accountable for rights abuses in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) as licensed by an act of Congress he signed into law today, according to a panel on religious freedom. On Wednesday, Trump enacted the Uyghur Person Rights Policy Act of 2020 (UHRPA), […]

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Authorities in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR), are requiring Uyghur households to divide their courtyards according to rigorous guidelines or run the risk of detention in internment camps, according to sources. A current post in the official Aksu Daily declared that the “Three Separates” campaign, which needs […]

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Cambodia’s top human rights body stated Wednesday that the nation does not wish to lose preferential trade status in the European Union but is not able to adhere to the bloc’s requirements on rights reforms to keep those benefits, mentioning its status as a sovereign country. The EU in mid-February revealed strategies to suspend tariff-free […]

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A prominent Uyghur journalist has actually been confirmed detained in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) after vanishing nearly three years earlier, according to an official in the local capital Urumqi. Qurban Mamut, the former editor-in-chief of the official Xinjiang Cultural Journal, went missing out on around November 2017, numerous months after he and […]

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Jewlan Shirmemet, a Uyghur who has actually resided in Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul considering that 2008, had actually remained quiet about politics till around 6 months earlier, when he started to speak up as part of a campaign to complimentary his mom, Suriye Tursun, from approximate detention back home in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area […]

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China’s federal government has actually ruined much of Kashgar’s Old City in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) exactly since of its cultural significance for Uyghurs, according to a brand-new report, which called the campaign secret to understanding how Beijing looks for to manage the ethnic group. In its brand-new report, entitled “Kashgar Coerced: Forced […]

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Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR) have actually revealed strategies to destroy a Uyghur cemetery in the capital Urumqi, marking the most recent of lots taken down in current years as part of a campaign professionals have actually stated is targeted at managing members of the ethnic group. On Might 22, a […]

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Gulshan Abbas, a Uyghur physician from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) who went missing after her Washington-based sister spoke up versus Beijing’s policies in the area, has actually been confirmed detained almost 2 years after her disappearance. The senior citizen, who previously operated at the Nurbagh Petroleum Medical Facility in the local capital […]

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The U.S. Congress passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 on Wednesday, marking the first legislation by any federal government to target China for its persecution of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR), regardless of dangers of retaliation from Beijing. The passage comes as the U.S. House of Representatives voted 413 […]

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An extradition treaty that could be utilized to by force deport Uyghurs from Turkey to China where they are at threat of persecution faces an unsure fate in parliament, according to Turkish opposition legislators, while cases that highlight Beijing’s impact over Ankara have actually raised worries amongst Uyghur exiles. Numerous of the more than 50,000 […]

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