Chinese tech patents tools that can detect, track UighursUnited Nations officials have said China is transforming the Xinjiang region, where many Uighurs live, into a “massive internment camp”, wi...
14 Jan, 2021, 07.17 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
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
UK suspends extradition arrangements with Hong Kong over China's new security lawAs tensions grow with Beijing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he had concerns about the new law and about alleged human rights abuses ...
20 Jul, 2020, 08.37 PM IST
China says Britain's heading down the 'wrong path' over Hong Kong extradition treatyA new security law imposed by China on Hong Kong last month has drawn widespread criticism in Britain and elsewhere, and Raab is due later ...
20 Jul, 2020, 06.02 PM IST
UK ratchets up criticism of China over Uighurs, HK; hints at suspending extradition agreementTensions between the U.K. and China have heightened over several issues, including China's alleged rights violations against the Uighur min...
19 Jul, 2020, 07.39 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 forces birth control on Uighurs to suppress populationThe campaign over the past four years in the far west region of Xinjiang is leading to what some experts are calling a form of "demographic...
29 Jun, 2020, 11.03 AM 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
Amid virus crackdown, Uighurs hope Chinese 'waking up' to their plightJewher Ilham, the daughter of jailed Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti, criticised some of the measures imposed by Beijing, including placing...
21 Feb, 2020, 12.30 PM IST
USA restricts 28 Chinese entities for human rights violation in XinjiangThe US government has blacklisted 28 Chinese entities for alleged human rights violations.
09 Oct, 2019, 06.14 AM 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
Infantry forces of SCO members hold joint trainingIndia, Afghanistan, Iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan have observer-nation status in the SCO while Belarus, Turkey and Sri Lanka have dialogue p...
28 Nov, 2016, 09.08 PM 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