Xinjiang

Five tweets landed Li Lin in shackles. A software engineer, Li had traveled to Xinjiang province in 2018 to visit family for the Lunar New Year. He tweeted about his…

‘We’ve been assured that none of the cotton for the Australian Olympic team comes from that region,’ said Ian Chesterman, Australian Olympic Committee vice president. “We’ve been assured that none…

The cotton row has spilled over into the entertainment world, with Chinese celebrities dropping several foreign retail labels, including six U.S. brands such as Nike. ( to our Today’s Cache…

Chinese Foreign Ministry speswoman Hua Chunying attends a news conference in Beijing, China January 21, 2021. Carlos Garcia Rawlins | Reuters BEIJING — China slapped sanctions on U.K. entities on…

Biden had earlier said he would not immediately cancel the trade agreement that Donald Trump struck with China nor take steps to remove tariffs on Chinese exports File image of…

The United States has reiterated that it will stand with the Tibetan cause. The US State Department has said that the Joe Biden administration would continue to press China on…

Beijing: Women in China’s system of detention camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang were subject to rape, sexual abuse and torture, according to…

Officials have held one million or people in internment camps in Xinjiang, the country’s most sweeping mass detention program since the Mao era. A wide range of behavior can…

“This genocide is ongoing, and…we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Tuesday, on the…

The agency said the region-wide ban was “based on information that reasonably indicates the use of detainee or prison labor and situations of forced labor,” saying it had found examples…

Dominic Raab, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs walks in Downing Street on September 3, 2019 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty…

A Chinese official on Monday 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…

A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official signalled Monday that there would likely be no let-up in its crackdown in the remote Xinjiang region, but said the government’s focus is shifting…

That day, Yakufu, a 43-year-old ethnic Uyghur, had been freed from a Chinese detention camp and allowed to return home to her three teenage children and aunt and uncle in…

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority labourers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced into picking cotton by hand through a coercive state labour scheme, a report has said.…

China has strongly denied allegations of forced labour involving Uighurs in Xinjiang, and accused the US of wanting to ‘suppress Xinjiang companies’ Representational image. Reuters Beijing: Hundreds of thousands of ethnic…

By: New York Times | November 30, 2020 12:02:12 pm An internment camp near Harmony New Village, a farming settlement in the Xinjiang region of China, Aug. 4, 2019. (Gilles…