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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
Mia Jankowicz
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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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A Chinese ambassador was confronted on live television with leaked footage appearing to show blindfolded Uighur Muslims being led onto a train in China
The Chinese ambassador to the UK said 'so-called western intelligence' had repeatedly made 'false a…
Thomas Colson
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Disney filmed parts of 'Mulan' in China's Xinjiang, where millions of Muslims are being spied on and locked up
Chinese authorities have installed a modern police state to oppress Muslims in Xinijang. "Mulan" th…
Bill Bostock
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Trump signed a law to punish China for its oppression of the Uighur Muslims. Uighurs say much more needs to be done.
President Donald Trump signed The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 the same day reports said …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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The US placed sanctions on 4 Chinese Communist Party officials over abuse of Uighur Muslims
Chen Quanguo, a member of the Politburo, was one of the officials to be sanctioned and is the highe…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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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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PPE made in China and exported to countries like the US were made from oppressed Uighur Muslims, report says
The New York Times identified companies across China that use Uighur labor to make PPE, like face m…
Sinéad Baker
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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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Software engineer who installed AI recognition in Xinjiang says China tested the software on Uighurs: BBC
"The Chinese government use Uyghurs as test subjects for various experiments just like rats are use…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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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…