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Western Companies Get Tangled in China’s Muslim Clampdown
Kraft Heinz, Adidas and Gap are among the companies whose supply chains run through Xinjiang, where China is cracking down on its largely Muslim population. In one tactic, many residents must go through mandatory job-training programs that include political messaging.
Trump fights China on trade, surrenders on human rights | CNN
The US-China trade war obscures a darker reality, says Frida Ghitis, about China's record on human rights. But it's not only the Trump administration that has surrendered to China on human rights, she says. Washington has been gradually giving up the fight for many years.
China's persecuted Uyghurs live 'freely' in Turkey | CNN
Members of the Uyghur community in Turkey say they escaped a brutal crackdown in China and now continue to rally for missing relatives believed to be held in camps.
Reporters - Surviving China’s Uighur 're-education through labour' camps
In China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, more than one million ethnic Uighurs are believed to be held in internment camps. The authorities call them "re-education through labour camps", but victims s…
Top Chinese Uygur official faces trial on corruption charges
Nur Bekri is accused of taking bribes and abusing his power and has already been expelled from the Communist Party
Revealed: new evidence of China's mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang
Guardian and Bellingcat investigation finds more than two dozen Islamic religious sites partly or completely demolished since 2016
US accuses China of using 'concentration camps' against Muslim minority
In a highly charged attack, the Pentagon says up to 3m people could be imprisoned in detention centres
China’s Xinjiang an ‘enormous risk’ for US business, Pompeo warns
US secretary of state cautions American companies to think twice before doing business where estimated 1 million Uygurs held in re-education camps
Africa’s largest mosque opens with a little help from China
The Great Mosque of Algiers will be the third biggest mosque in the world, behind Islam's two holiest sites
UN chief raised ‘situation in Xinjiang’ in talks with Chinese president
United Nations secretary general discussed with Xi Jinping the plight of an estimated 1 million Uygurs held in re-education camps, saying ‘human rights must be fully respected in the fight against terrorism’.
Africa’s largest mosque has been completed with thanks to China
The Great Mosque is a new feat for the China State Construction Engineering Corporation
What happened to our parents? Uygur sisters seek answers
Zumret and Humar Isaac lost contact with their parents in November 2018. Since then, the two Uygur sisters from Xinjiang, China, have been on a quest to find out what happened. A phone call from…
China Exploits Fleet of U.S. Satellites to Strengthen Police and Military Power
Tangled ownership and offshore firms helped Beijing win access to superior technology, despite U.S. law preventing satellite sales to China. U.S. firms including private-equity giant Carlyle Group and Boeing Co. indirectly facilitate the efforts.
‘I Have Revised My Idea of What a Uighur Heroine Should Be’
The Chinese government would have you believe a good Uighur woman is one who knows how to apply false eyelashes and cook dumplings. She is neither too modest nor too forward. She is “good at singing
'I was always in fear – I thought they would kill me': Muslim women describe torture at hands of Chinese authorities in Xinjiang
In the confines of a cramped, dark room, Aigerim was kicked repeatedly in the stomach by a guard wearing heavy, metal-tipped boots.
China’s hi-tech war on its Muslim minority
The long read: Smartphones and the internet gave the Uighurs a sense of their own identity – but now the Chinese state is using technology to strip them of it
China’s Hard Edge: The Leader of Beijing’s Muslim Crackdown Gains Influence
Chen Quanguo, the official behind aggressive surveillance and social control in China’s restive Xinjiang region, is gaining prominence in Beijing, and his methods are spreading to other parts of the country.
Bulldozing mosques: the latest tactic in China’s war against Uighur culture | Rachel Harris
The levelling of sites in Xinjiang is part of an attempt to destroy an entire society, says Rachel Harris, an expert in Uighur culture and religion
Revealed: five Australian children trapped in China amid Uighur crackdown
Children, aged between one and six, are all Australian citizens and are separated from at least one of their parents
‘I felt like a slave:’ Inside China’s complex system of incarceration and control of minorities
In Kazakhstan, former detainees recount brutal treatment, political indoctrination, forced labour and surveillance. Nathan VanderKlippe reports ahead of human-rights group’s visit to Ottawa seeking action
