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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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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 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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Chinese social-media users burn their Nikes after the company says it's 'concerned' about forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
A mass boycott effort against Nike is unfolding in China after the brand said it was concerned abou…
Cheryl Teh
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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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Uighur women fleeing Xinjiang detention camps say they were victims of systemic rape: BBC report
Several women said Chinese men would rape and torture Uighur women every night in the camps even so…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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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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New report says at least 570,000 people in Uighur regions sent to pick cotton through China's coercive labor training in 2018
Xinjiang, a region home to ethnic minorities, produces 20% of the world's and 85% of China's cotton.
Sarah Al-Arshani
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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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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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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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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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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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China's UK embassy demanded Twitter launch a 'thorough' investigation after its ambassador's account liked a pornographic video
Liu Xiaoming's account liked a clip "by an adult-themed page" and tweets about killing citizens and…
Sinéad Baker
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Here's why people are furious with Disney's 'Mulan'
The movie thanked Chinese authorities in Xinjiang — a region where millions of ethnic Muslims are s…
Sinéad Baker
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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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China's sprawling spy agencies are designed to root out the 'five poisons' at home and abroad, British intelligence says
China's growing military and economic might has attracted worldwide attention, but Beijing has also…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Chinese hospitals aborted late-stage pregnancies and killed newborns as part of a campaign to purge the Uighur culture, report says
Since 2016, China has been cracking down on Uighur Muslims — whom it claims are prone to extremism …
Bill Bostock
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China retaliates against US sanctions with its own, targeting 11 US citizens in ongoing political skirmish
"That is little more than an effort to distract attention from its wholesale assault on the rights …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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My wife was detained, released, and disappeared again in China. Here's my message on behalf of my people, the Uighurs.
The author, Mamutjan Abdurehim, is a Uighur father from Xinjiang — the Chinese region synonymous wi…