China: Muslims Repressed, Monitored, Forced into Camps
The Chinese government is conducting a mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations against Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang in northwestern China, Human Rights Watch said
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Interview: ‘The U.S. is Taking The Issue of The Concentration Camps Quite Seriously’
Dolkun Isa, the president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and Omer Kanat, chairman of the WUC Executive Committee, paid a brief
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Chinese Authorities Profit From Forced Labor by Detainees in Camps
A “transformation through education” camp in Xinjiang’s Urumqi city houses a secret factory where 300 detained Uyghur women are forced to work. Bitter
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Chinese Police Ban Activist’s Planned Visit to Democratic Taiwan
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu have slapped a travel ban on a rights activist who planned to travel to the
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Chinese Activist Who Shared Anti-Censorship Techniques in Secret Trial
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Thursday secretly tried a prominent anti-censorship campaigner on subversion charges after holding him for
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Journalists speak out on Myanmar sentence – BBC News
A court in Myanmar has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison. It says they violated a state secrets act while
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The Plight of Rohingya Refugees One Year Later
It has been one year since the Burmese military began a violent campaign to force ethnic minorities to leave Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Witnesses
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China: Systematic repression of ethnic minorities laid bare in UN findings
In response to the release of concluding observations on China by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Amnesty International’s
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Tibetan Pilgrim Sees Restrictions, Heavy Police Presence in Lhasa
A Tibetan man making his first visit to Tibet’s regional capital Lhasa returned home earlier than planned this week after encountering police checkpoints
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Uighurs in US Celebrate Eid, With Their Thoughts Back Home
WASHINGTON — Aygul insists she’s not really in the “Eid mood.” But that didn’t stop her from preparing a traditional Uighur meal for family
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