Below is an article published by Sayari, Photo credit XPCC/CD By Alex Bate On Friday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) for their role in human rights abuses against Uyghurs in what is potentially one of...
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Forced Sterilization of Uyghur Women is a Violation of a Woman’s Right to Reproductive Autonomy
Below is an article published by The Jurist, Photo credit PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Image Philip Alexander, a second-year law student at National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India, discusses how forced sterilization of Uighur women violates their right to reproductive autonomy and violates China's commitments under international law… In late June,...
Genocide in Chinese Occupied East Turkistan
The article below was published by Breaking Point, Photo credit YouTube screenshot The United Nations “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide” went into effect in 1951. At the time, the Convention defined “genocide” as actions “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a...
Iran Hardliners Claim China Is Serving Islam By Suppressing Uyghur Muslims
Below is an article published by Radio Liberty - Persian Service, Photo credit Reuters By Reza Haqiqatnezhad Iranian conservatives have been justifying the Chinese government's suppression of Uyghur Muslims in China and keeping silent in the face of systematic violence against Chines Muslims in Xinjiang Province. During the past days...
East Turkistan Government-in-Exile lauds US sanctions against XPCC
Below is an article published by ANI, Photo credit East Turkistan Government in Exile Washington [US], August 4 (ANI): The East Turkistan Government in Exile has lauded the United States decision to levy sanction on the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), for its role in China's brutal campaign of...
ICC: Shy hope for Uyghurs and Rohingyas
Below is an article published by Inventiva, Photo credit public domain China and Burma have not ratified the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court. However, crimes committed against these minorities can be prosecuted if part of the facts concerns signatory countries. Extremely serious crimes on a very large scale....
Cuban Democracy Groups Join Call to End Uyghur Slavery in China
Below is an article published by Breitbart, Photo credit OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, a Miami-based human rights organization, recently joined the Coalition to End Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region, a group urging companies to stop profiting from the enslavement of Uyghurs in...
As Mountain Standoff With India Continues, China Stages Bombers And Cruise Missiles in East Turkistan
Below is an article published by Forbes, Photo credit Maxar Technologies via Twitter The Chinese air force apparently has deployed bombers to an air base in the country’s far west, placing the warplanes within striking distance of Indian forces along the disputed Chinese-Indian border in the Himalayas. But conditions undoubtedly...
Human rights should guide trade with China, say bishops
Below is an article published by the Church Times, Photo credit PA By Maddie Fry THE Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, urged the Government last week, in the House of Lords, to take “firmer steps to counter Beijing’s harrowing human-rights abuses against the Uighurs”. He also said that the Government should accept that “such...
East Turkistan govt-in-exile urges Muslim world to break silence on Chinese oppression in East Turkistan
Below is an article published by ANI, Photo credit East Turkistan Government in Exile Washington [US], July 31 (ANI): East Turkistan Government-in-exile has called on Muslims countries to break their silence on Chinese oppression and support people of Xinjiang in their fight against decades of occupation and genocide by Chinese...