Wang meets top UN rights official as she opens Xinjiang trip
Beijing, China AP China’s foreign minister met with the UN’s top human rights official on her visit to the country and shared with her that China opposes “politicising” human rights and imposing double standards, its foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Michelle Bachelet in the southern city of Guangzhou on Monday as she […]
US ambassador to UN says China tried to distract with Uyghur athlete in Opening Ceremony
AP The US ambassador to the United Nations says China’s selection of a Uyghur athlete to help deliver the Olympic flame in Beijing was an attempt by Chinese officials to “distract” from global attention on its human rights violations. The United States is staging a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics, sending athletes but not the […]
UK independent body: China committed genocide in Xinjiang
London, UKAP An independent, unofficial body set up by a prominent British barrister to assess evidence on China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people concluded Thursday that the Chinese Government committed genocide and crimes against humanity. The Uyghur Tribunal, made up of lawyers, academics and businesspeople, doesn’t have any government backing or powers to […]
US Holocaust Museum says China boosting Uighur repression
Washington DC, USAP The US Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uighur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region. In a new report released Tuesday, the museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide says there is now “a reasonable basis” to believe that previously alleged crimes against humanity versus the Uighurs are growing amid […]
43 countries criticise China at UN for repression of Uighurs
United NationsAP More than 40 mainly Western countries criticised China at a UN meeting on Thursday for the reported torture and repression of Uighurs and other religious and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, keeping a spotlight on the region where foreign governments and researchers say an estimated one million people or more have been confined in […]
Olympics – Protests in Athens as Beijing prepares for Games flame
Athens, GreeceReuters Greek police detained two human rights activists after they unfurled banners at the Athens Acropolis on Sunday opposing the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics as China’s Games organisers prepare to receive the Olympic flame. The activists staged a brief protest at the Acropolis in the Greek capital early in the morning, holding up a […]
Beijing Olympics open in four months; human rights talk absent
AP When the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Summer Olympics, it promised the Games could improve human rights and civil liberties in China. There is no such lofty talk this time with Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics – the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games – opening in just four months on […]
Essay: Dr Gulshan Abbas’ family haven’t seen her for three years – there are millions like them
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy organisation CSW, calls for ongoing prayer and action in support of those, like Dr Gulshan Abbas, who have been arbitrarily detained in the Xinjiang region of China…
China accuses Washington of “low political tricks” over Uighur exhibit
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters A US-backed Uighur photo exhibit of dozens of people who are missing or alleged to be held in camps in Xinjiang, China, opened in Switzerland on Thursday, prompting Beijing to issue a furious statement accusing Washington of “low political tricks”. The “Wall of the Disappeared” which also features interviews with camp survivors about […]
Room for 10,000: Inside China’s largest detention centre
DAKE KANG, of Associated Press, reports on a visit to the Urumqi No 3 Detention Centre in Dabancheng in China’s far west Xinjiang region…