Uighur exiles describe forced abortions and torture in China

June 5, 2021 Article

Three Uighurs who fled from China to Turkey have described forced abortions and torture by Chinese authorities in the far western Xinjiang region. They were speaking ahead of giving evidence to a people’s tribunal in London that is investigating if Beijing’s actions against ethnic Uighurs amount to genocide. One woman said she was forced to […]

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PM to back compromise amendment on genocide claims to avert Trade Bill revolt

February 8, 2021 Article

Boris Johnson is seeking to avert a Tory revolt over allegations of genocide in China by backing a compromise plan put forward by a senior Conservative. The Government has been involved in a parliamentary battle over proposals to outlaw trade deals with countries that are committing genocide – a dispute taking place at a time […]

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Foreign Secretary urges China to let UN human-rights commissioner visit Xinjiang

January 17, 2021 Article

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has called on China to allow the United Nations (UN) to visit a province where it is accused of “appalling” human-rights abuses against the Uighur minority group. Mr Raab said reports of internment camps and women being forcibly sterilised in Xinjiang were “truly shocking” and that authorities in Beijing should permit […]

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Anger as China says it is freeing Uighur women from being ‘baby-making machines’

January 11, 2021 Article

A Chinese official denied Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women, following an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government polices had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being “baby-making machines”. Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the Xinjiang regional government, told reporters […]

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China’s Aggressive Actions on Human Rights Should Not Be Forgotten

July 15, 2020 Article

We are currently seeing a change and shift in relations between the United Kingdom and the Chinese Communist Party. This on the back of a number of issues that have included Huawei, the Coronavirus crisis, aggressive postures against human rights activists in Hong Kong and the mass internment of Uighur Muslims. For far too long, […]

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China: Newspaper blames West for encouraging Xinjiang extremists

September 3, 2018 Article

Turbulence in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang has been caused by “external factors”, a state-run newspaper said Saturday in an editorial responding to [...]

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China: CCTV cameras and eviction for a ‘house church’ in Beijing

August 31, 2018 Article

The Zion Church in Beijing, one of the city’s largest unofficial Protestant “house” churches, has operated with relative freedom for years, hosting hundreds of worshippers [...]

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UK: Foreign minister attacks Google over ‘child abuse content’

August 31, 2018 Article

British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt accused Google on Thursday of abandoning its moral values by failing to remove child abuse content while launching a version [...]

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China: Student activists disappear after police raid

August 24, 2018 Article

Police in riot gear stormed an apartment in southern China on Friday where about 40 student activists and others supporting factory workers seeking to form [...]

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Switzerland: Trump has responsibility towards media, U.N. rights chief says

August 21, 2018 Article

The U.N. rights chief said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump bears “a heavy responsibility” for how the media is portrayed and that his [...]

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