The British government has replaced security equipment provided by Chinese-owned tech companies at key government offices, media reports said. This followed twin concerns – one Uyghur rights violations; two presence of Chinese-owned surveillance systems at the Department of Defence and police forces that has undermined national security. Hikvision and Dahua Read more ………
The Prevention of Forced Uyghur Labor Act has been in effect for half a year since it was signed into force by President Biden in December 2021. In late June, U.S. Customs and Border Protection also began enforcing the law, stepping up its scrutiny and seizure of a large number Read more ………
A new study says the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a paramilitary group in Xinjiang, has played a “key and central role” in the authorities’ grave abuses against Muslim minorities such as Uighurs. The Helena Kennedy Center for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom released Tuesday Read more ………
Uyghurs prisoners in Xinjiang are forced to speak in Mandarin and perform obvious displays of subservience to their Chinese guards in monthly video calls with relatives, Uyghurs living in exile say. A Uyghur now living in Europe told RFA that her siblings in Sanji Prison in the town of Sanji Read more ………
Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region used the Chinese government’s 100-day crackdown on criminals and fugitives to target Uyghurs deemed “religious extremists” and “two-faced,” a police officer in a major city said. The campaign was rolled out by Wang Xiaohong, a close ally of Chinese President Xi Jinping who was Read more ………
In a what appeared a very surprising move, was a high-profile visit by China’s President Xi Jinping on July 15 and more significantly, his rare meeting with Chinese military Commanders and troops, who are engaged with the Indian Military in Eastern Ladakh. This was Jinping’s last day of official commitment Read more ………
Rabigul Haji Muhammed was stunned to see a former classmate on a leaked list of Uyghurs and other Turkic people detained in internment camps in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. The doctoral student in Turkology at Hacettepe University in Turkey was searching through a trove of classified documents published by a Read more ………
Some Biden Administration figures and even business interests are said to be resisting the strict enforcement of President Joe Biden’s Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act that is designed to put pressure on China and make it end forced labour in Xinjiang region. The US law went into effect this week. Read more ………
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), which President Joe Biden signed into law in December, is set to take effect June 21. Under the law, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will treat any goods that are made in Xinjiang , either wholly or in part, as the product of forced labor unless the Read more ………
After a visit to Xinjiang’s Uyghur belt, UN high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, has urged the Chinese government to review its counter-terrorism policies in Xinjiang and appealed for information about missing Uyghurs. She addressed a press conference on Zoom from Guangzhou at the end of a six-day visit Read more ………
The Chinese government has sentenced and detained nearly 30,000 Uyghurs on so-called “terrorism-related” charges, say overseas Uyghur activists quoting a leaked Chinese police database that gives personal details in respect of each interne. This is said to be the largest known list of Uighurs detained to date, reflecting the scale Read more ………
