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Tim Cook says Apple has a 'responsibility' to do business everywhere, even in China despite its human rights issues
Cook said Apple has to "acknowledge that there are different laws in other markets," even ones like…
Katie Canales
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Apple took down a Quran app and a Bible app in China on the request of Chinese officials
Apple told the BBC that Chinese officials had complained that the Quran and Bible apps broke laws o…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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China's foreign ministry took a victory lap after the BBC moved its correspondent out of the country, claiming he was 'smearing' them
The BBC said it relocated China correspondent John Sudworth to Taiwan. He had reported on the coron…
Sinéad Baker
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Biden administration sanctions Chinese officials for 'genocide' against Uyghurs days after diplomatic spat in Alaska
Human-rights groups say China has forced over a million Uyghur Muslims and other minorities into de…
John Haltiwanger
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China is committing 'crimes against humanity' with its treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, human rights group says
A new report from Human Rights Watch called on the United Nations and foreign governments to punish…
Charles Davis
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Twitter blocks 'dehumanizing' Chinese Embassy tweet claiming Uighur women are no longer 'baby-making machines'
China is accused of subjecting Uighur women to forced sterilization. The Chinese Embassy tweet cele…
Joshua Zitser
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Huawei reportedly worked with 4 additional companies to build surveillance tools that track people by ethnicity, following recent revelations that it tested a 'Uighur alarm'
The Washington Post has unearthed additional tools Huawei helped build that claim to have the abili…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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H&M was wiped from the internet in China, sending a chilling warning to other retailers
H&M products are missing from Alibaba and other shopping sites, and China's Google Maps-like platfo…
Katie Canales
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China is cracking down on yet another Muslim minority — the 10,000-person island Utsul community — while continuing its crusade against Uighurs
Last month China banned the Utsuls from wearing hijabs in schools and government offices, according…
Bill Bostock
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China is reportedly sending Tibetans to work in military-style labor training camps, echoing the persecution of Uighurs in Xinjiang
In Xinjiang, China is already brainwashing Uighur Muslims and making them work production lines. Th…
Bill Bostock
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Birth rates in Xinjiang, where China's Uighur camps are based, plunged by nearly a third in 2018 but China claims it's not forcing sterilizations
One part of China's response was to say an expert was "deliberately fabricating lies," and call him…
James Pasley
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The EU could throw out its landmark trade deal with China over concerns about Beijing's human rights record
Anxiety about the deal with China includes concerns over alleged human rights abuses and fears of h…
Thomas Colson
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A Uighur man recorded life inside a high-security Chinese internment camp. Here's what he said it was like.
Mergan Ghappar smuggled a cell phone into a detention camp, and was able to talk to his family and …
James Pasley
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China is detaining Uighur Muslims simply for being under 40 years old, leaked documents show
Officials in Xinjiang, China, built a database of residents that includes security footage, interne…
Bill Bostock
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China's fake photo of Australian soldier harming child is part of 'dirty game,' Australian special forces soldier says
A fake photo of an Australian soldier harming a child tweeted by a Chinese official was part of a "…
David Choi
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Trump said 'he would rather not say' whether China was committing human rights abuses against Uighurs
President Trump's own State Department concluded that China was committing genocide against Uighurs.
Brent D. Griffiths
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Federal authorities seize shipment of human hair extensions believed to have been made in Xinjiang prison camps
The hair extensions were part of a shipment of nearly 13 tons of hair products with an estimated va…
Rosie Perper
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Turkey is accused of extraditing Uighur Muslims to China in exchange for COVID-19 vaccines
Turkey expected China's Sinovac vaccine in early December, but it was weeks delayed. Some politicia…
Bill Bostock
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China made a 'La La Land'-inspired propaganda musical about the life of Uyghur Muslims, which omits all mention of mass surveillance and oppression
"The Wings of Songs" premiered in China on March 28 and is about a Uyghur, a Kazakh, and a Han Chin…
Bill Bostock
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China kept building new Uighur internment camps in Xinjiang after claiming that detainees had 'graduated,' report says
China claimed last year that all camp "trainees" had "graduated." Researchers have since found 380 …