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China forces 500,000 Tibetans into labour camps

Tibet News, Uyghur NewsBy Anthony Galloway and Eryk Bagshaw September 22, 2020

Original article: https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-forces-500-000-tibetans-into-labour-camps-20200922-p55xyk.html China is pushing hundreds of thousands of Tibetans into forced labour camps, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region, as the International Olympic Committee is urged to strip Beijing of the Winter Olympics. New evidence suggests the Chinese government now has a large-scale mandatory “vocational training” program in Tibet, pushing more…

Trump Signs Uyghur Human Rights Act Into Law

Uyghur NewsBy Nurmuhammad Majid June 23, 2020

US and China clash over Uyghur harassment in Australia and ‘fake police cars’

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Michael Walsh December 19, 2019

A diplomatic war of words has emerged between the American and Chinese embassies in Canberra, amid claims Beijing is harassing Uyghur minority people living in Australia. Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been subject to a wide-ranging security crackdown in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where it is believed more than a million people have been…

People Are Pressuring the Olympic Committee to Help Shut Down China’s Uyghur Camps

Featured Articles, Human Rights in China, Uyghur NewsBy Leila Ettachfini December 19, 2019

“No Rights. No Games.” is using the 2022 Olympics to place pressure on the Chinese government to end its persecution of Uyghur Muslims. The last time Irade Kashgary heard from her grandmother was in 2015. That was the year her grandmother told the family that she’d been placed under house arrest in Xinjiang, an autonomous…

China’s ambassador to Australia says reports of detention of 1m Uighurs ‘fake news’

Human Rights in China, Uyghur NewsBy Paul Karp December 19, 2019

China’s ambassador to Australia has labelled reports that one million Uighurs are being held in detention “fake news”, seeking to excuse mass incarceration as a deradicalisation measure. At a rare press conference at the Chinese embassy in Canberra, Cheng Jingye claimed the mass detention in Xinjiang province had “nothing to do with human rights, nothing to do with religion”…

Chinese ambassador says Xinjiang ‘trainees’ have graduated in rare press conference

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Ben Westcott and Hilary Whiteman December 19, 2019

(CNN) China’s ambassador to Australia has defended Beijing against accusations of human rights violations in a rare press conference Thursday, saying allegations that one million people had been detained in Xinjiang were “fake news.” In a carefully-worded series of answers, ambassador Cheng Jingye reiterated the Chinese government’s stance that the massive centers weren’t “detention camps” but…

China Has Been Telling Lies About the Concentration Camps

Uyghur NewsBy Tahir Imin Uighurian February 28, 2019

From denying the existence of the concentration camps to transferring thousands of Uighur prisoners to prisons in other provinces in China, Chinese authorities have been lying to the international community. China has failed to hide the existence of the concentration camps despite its strong attempts thanks to Human Rights Watch reports, concerns expressed by the U.S.…

Protest in New York over fate of China’s Uighurs

Uyghur NewsBy Hong Kong Free Press February 7, 2019

About 50 people gathered Tuesday outside the US Mission to the UN in New York to draw attention to the fate of China’s Uighur minority, and urge action from the United States. The appeal was launched by a young medical student, Yosef Roth, who had no connection with this Muslim minority before mobilizing for this cause.…

The Future Of Uyghur Cultural — And Halal — Life In The Year Of The Pig

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Darren Byler February 6, 2019

Up until 2018, Lunar New Year celebrations were conspicuously absent from Uyghur society. Today, it is the largest cultural event of the year — for the wrong reasons. Young Han and Uyghur people celebrate the year of the pig in the town of Kucha in the southern part of the Uyghur autonomous region on January…

She Fled China’s Camps—but She’s Still Not Free

Uyghur NewsBy Reid Standish February 6, 2019

Sayragul Sauytbay, the only person to have worked inside an internment camp in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) and spoken publicly about it, now faces an uncertain future in Kazakhstan. LMATY, Kazakhstan—Speaking to a packed courthouse in eastern Kazakhstan in August 2018, Sayragul Sauytbay—an ethnic Kazakh Chinese national—provided some of the earliest testimony about Beijing’s vast internment camp system for Muslim…

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