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Why won't China let this two-year-old Australian boy leave?
Lutfy is an Australian citizen but like millions of people in China's far-western Xinjiang region, he's essentially being held prisoner. In some cases, entire families have been rounded up and put into re-education camps or forced labour.
China says Uighur award nomination is 'supporting terrorism'
East Asia News -BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing slammed Thursday (Aug 29) the nomination of a jailed academic from China's Uighur minority for one of Europe's top human rights awards, saying it equated to
Chinese diplomat known for Twitter tirades gets senior foreign ministry job
Zhao Lijian became known for heated online confrontations with China’s critics, once being branded a ‘racist disgrace’ by a former Obama administration official.
Families of missing Uighurs use Tiktok video app to publicise China detentions
Short messages campaign for information on loved ones held in Xinjiang camps
Hong Kong protests to Uygur camps: Chinese students are scorned
Campus confrontations have erupted from Canada to New Zealand as mainland Chinese students react, sometimes violently, to public scrutiny of Beijing’s policies.
As loved ones in China disappear amid crackdown, Uyghurs in Japan speak out
As the global outcry over China's crackdown on the Uyghurs grows, members of the same ethnic minority in Japan are calling for help out of desperation to d
How people in China are trying to evade Beijing’s digital surveillance
The sharing of tips for combating Beijing’s ever-tightening grip on people's digital lives has picked up in recent months, on both Chinese and foreign websites.
‘Once Their Mental State Is Healthy, They Will Be Able to Live Happily in Society’
We should pause before impetuously tracing the practice of describing Islam as an illness, disease, or even cancer to “Western” politicians. While the United States-led “War on Terror” and subsequent
Activists scramble to prevent Uighur man's deportation to China
Ablikim Yusuf, who had been living in Pakistan, faces detention and torture if he is sent to China, say supporters
Uighurs challenge China to prove missing relatives are free
Diaspora sceptical over claim most inmates released from Xinjiang detainment centres
'Most people' detained in Xinjiang camps have been released, China claims
Official in Chinese region says detainees have ‘returned home’ but US calls for evidence and a UN inspection
China's top Uyghur official claims most detainees have left Xinjiang camps | CNN
A senior Chinese official has alleged that authorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang have released most detainees held in government internment camps, but refused to be drawn on how many people remained in the mass detention program.
Chinese graft watchdog targets senior Uygur official in Xinjiang
Enwaer Tursun investigated for ‘serious violations’ of Communist Party discipline and law.
China-born opponent of Xinjiang crackdown goes on trial in Kazakhstan
Popular campaigner has helped put the spotlight on alleged rights abuses perpetrated against Turkic minorities in China’s far western region.
China's police state goes global, leaving refugees in fear
Australia/NZ News -SYDNEY (AFP) - Muslims who escaped China's crackdown in Xinjiang still live in fear, saying new homes abroad and even Western passports afford them no protection against a
Erdogan’s ‘happy Xinjiang’ comments mistranslated, Turkish officials say
Turkish diplomats claim Beijing refused to correct the record when error spotted in statement of meeting with Xi Jinping.
China denies Uighurs' Turkic descent and says 'hostile forces' trying to split country
The government said ‘hostile forces’ wanted to break China apart and called the region of Xinjiang an ‘inseparable’ part of China
Xinjiang Uygurs didn’t choose to be Muslims, China says
Islam was forced on ethnic group ‘by religious wars and the ruling class’, Beijing says in latest report defending its actions in far western region.
Trump hears ‘tough’ Xinjiang camp details from detained Tohti’s daughter
US president has first public meeting with anyone from China’s Uygur community, and makes first remarks on their internment, while he also meets Falun Gong practitioner, Tibetan Buddhist and other victims of religious persecution.
‘Liberal’ policy chief unlikely to mean a softening on Xinjiang from China
Appointment of Wang Yang seen as ‘calculated move’ to assuage international concerns, but analysts doubt it will mean a change in Beijing’s hardline approach to the region.
