A report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project reveals how Beijing and Arab states worked together in the repression of the Uyghurs. Uyghurs have been experiencing transnational repression over the years. While they initially found safety in the Arab world, this is no longer the case. In the Arab region, in particular, the transnational repression ...
According to a leading expert on the issue, prisoners of conscience are murdered on demand for their organs in China. Organ harvesting supplies a state-run transplant industry where one out of five transplant recipients is believed to be from overseas. It is estimated that foreigners are the recipients of 1 out of 5 of the ...
For quite some time, allegations have been labeled against China for using unfair means to harass ethnic minorities and exploiting the population for commercial purposes, using them as forced labor. For example, the Uyghur Muslims staying in the Xinjiang region are reportedly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) machinery. The Chinese state media outlets ...
China has been in the line of fire of the U.S. and several European nations for its alleged and blatant violations of human rights in its territory. Recently, a new report by Human Rights Watch suggests that Uyghur children, separated from their parents, are being kept in “welfare schools” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ...
China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghurs and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups in the north-western region of Xinjiang. Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls ...
Uyghur forced labor in the Xinjiang region is threatening the solar panel industry worldwide. The world is trying to shift to renewable energy resources for its power needs. Whether solar power or hydropower, these natural resources are being harnessed to reduce the carbon footprint left by humans. U.S. President Joe Biden is also keen to ...
On February 2, the House of Lords voted 359 to 188 in favor of its China Trade Bill, which included genocide amendments. The first amendment by Lord Collins of Highbury will require government ministers to determine whether a signatory to a new trade agreement has committed crimes against humanity before the agreement’s ratification. The second ...
A hospital in Aksu in the Xinjiang region that was previously dedicated to fighting infectious diseases has apparently been turned into an internment camp. Uyghur activists fear that the camp is being used by the Chinese regime for harvesting organs from inmates. Harvesting organs Bahtiyar Omar, the director of the Norway-based Uyghur Transitional Justice Database ...
Diplomats from 39 Western nations have criticized China at the United Nations for violating the human rights of Uyghur Muslims, as well as compromising the autonomy of Hong Kong. UN Director Louis Charbonneau admitted that the organization must create an international mechanism to track and report rights violations committed by the Chinese regime. China’s human ...
Abdurahman Tohti is a Xinjiang-born Uyghur Chinese national who lives in Turkey. He has been cut off from his family for several years. In January this year, Tohti got the shock of his life when he spotted his son in a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda video. Brainwashing Uyghur children Tohti was a cotton farmer ...