Human Rights Watch slams China's 'appalling year' of violationsA Chinese court last month handed down a four-year jail term to a citizen-journalist who reported from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus be...
13 Jan, 2021, 08.09 PM IST
Alibaba's facial recognition tech specifically picks out Uighur minority, says new reportThe report comes as human rights groups accuse China of forcing over 1 million Muslim Uighurs into labour camps, and call out firms suspect...
17 Dec, 2020, 11.50 AM IST
UK says credible evidence of forced labour in China's Xinjiang region"Evidence of forced Uighur labour within Xinjiang, and in other parts of China, is credible, it is growing and deeply troubling to the UK g...
16 Dec, 2020, 07.46 PM IST
China wants world to turn blind eye on persecution of Islam in East Turkestan: ActivistsRushan Abbas, Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) said that freedom of religion and Islamic practices was suppressed by China in...
09 Oct, 2020, 10.40 AM IST
China's Xi says 'happiness' in Xinjiang on the rise, will keep teaching 'correct' outlookChina has come under scrutiny over its treatment of Uighur Muslims and claims of alleged forced-labour abuses in Xinjiang, where the United...
27 Sep, 2020, 07.15 PM IST
More than 100 UK lawmakers condemn China over Uighurs abuseChinese officials have repeatedly derided allegations of genocide, forced sterilisation and the mass detention of nearly 1 million Uighurs ...
09 Sep, 2020, 04.04 PM IST
US adds 11 Chinese companies to economic blacklist over China's treatment of UighursThe department said the companies are involved in using forced labor by Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups. They include numerous tex...
20 Jul, 2020, 09.43 PM IST
Genocide in Xinjiang by Chinese Communist Party akin to Nazi Germany: ReportThe Foreign Policy, one of world’s renowned foreign affairs magazine, in a report said that recent findings "evoke chilling parallels to pa...
18 Jul, 2020, 02.15 PM IST
China-made phones, tablets tainted by coerced Uighur laborOver the past four years, the Chinese government has detained more than a million people from the far west Xinjiang region, most of them Ui...
05 Mar, 2020, 11.06 PM IST
800k to 2 million religious minorities detained in Chinese internment camps: USReports suggested that most of those detained were not being charged, and their families had little or no information about their whereabou...
06 Dec, 2018, 03.49 PM IST
China to crack down on illegal online promotion of religion: ReportReligious organisations will not be allowed to live-stream or broadcast religious activities, reported the Global Times.
11 Sep, 2018, 09.55 AM IST
PLA, Pakistan troops launch 1st joint border patrols near XinjiangThis is the first time China-Pakistan began joint patrols in recent years though Chinese troops have been conducting patrols in the area si...
21 Jul, 2016, 05.54 PM IST
- China vows economic growth in restive Xinjiang
China's top leadership has decided to ramp up development in its restive Xinjiang region, state media said Friday, where ethnic Uighurs hav...
23 Apr, 2010, 04.12 PM IST
- China diverts Afghan plane to Kandahar after bomb threat
An Afghanistan plane has been hijacked by persons holding bomb.
10 Aug, 2009, 01.53 PM IST
- China diverts Afghan plane to Kandahar after bomb threat
An Afghanistan plane moving towards Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xinjiang province in western China, has been hijacked by one or more...
10 Aug, 2009, 09.22 AM IST
- Fresh protest erupts in China's Xinjiang region
The incident played out in front of reporters who were being taken around Urumqi to see the aftermath of Sunday's riots, when hundreds of v...
07 Jul, 2009, 10.10 AM IST
- US lawmakers condemn crackdown on China's minority Muslims
US lawmakers "strongly condemned" what they called Beijing's harsh pre-Olympic crackdown in China's Muslim-populated far northwest Xinjiang...
12 Jul, 2008, 07.20 AM IST