Issues are growing for jailed Xinjiang dissident Zhang Haitao, who has actually just been permitted 3 family gos to in the past 5 years of his sentence at a jail in the northwestern area of Xinjiang. Zhang, an outspoken critic of the judgment Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of the mainly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group, is […]

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Washington needs to make a tidy break with its existing policy of trusting China and ought to lead a global “alliance of democracies” to counter its significantly aggressive actions, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated Thursday, in the current of a series of hawkish Trump administration speeches about Beijing. Speaking at the Nixon Library […]

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Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) are preparing regional residents for sees with outside “inspectors” by ordering them to disavow understanding of “family planning” policies targeting Uyghurs that a current report related to genocide, according to sources. RFA’s Uyghur Service just recently got info from a confidential source who stated that authorities […]

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A coronavirus outbreak in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) continued to spread out Monday, as the variety of cases increased to almost four dozen in the capital Urumqi and authorities verified the first case in the city of Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi). The XUAR Health Commission revealed 17 new cases of COVID-19, the […]

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Authorities in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) have actually purchased a lockdown, cancelling almost all flights in and out of the city, after verifying a minimum of 17 cases of infection from the coronavirus. According to official figures, the city of 3.5 million has actually tape-recorded just 6 symptomatic […]

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Timothy Grose is a teacher of China Research studies with know-how in ethnic policy at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana. He just recently composed a post entitled, “If you don’t know how, just learn: Chinese housing and the transformation of Uyghur domestic space,” in which he argues that policies executed by the Chinese […]

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Memetrusul Hesen an ethnic Uyghur from Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR) who is currently living in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, has actually not had any type of contact with 35 members of his family, all of whom live back in Kashgar’s Kargilik (Yecheng) county, for more than 4 years […]

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Morgan Ortagus, U.S. Department of State spokesperson given that April 2019, talked to Alim Seytoff, director of RFA’s Uyghur Service, on Wednesday about Washington’s efforts to hold China responsible for its policies of persecution in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR), consisting of the extrajudicial imprisonment of some 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities […]

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Sam Brownback is an attorney, former United States Senator and former guv of the state of Kansas who has actually worked as the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom given that February 2018. He talked to RFA Uyghur Service Director Alim Seytoff on June. 24 about U.S. President Donald Trump’s enactment recently of the Uyghur […]

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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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