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China is expanding its crackdown on mosques to regions outside Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch says
Authorities have closed mosques in the northern Ningxia region as well as Gansu province, which are home to large populations of Hui Muslims, as part of a process known officially as "consolidation," according to the report, which draws on public documents, satellite images and witness testimonies.
China is expanding its crackdown on mosques to regions outside Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch says
China’s mosque closures extend beyond Xinjiang, targeting regions like Ningxia and Gansu. The government’s "consolidation" process involves mosque closures, architectural alterations, and demolition to align them with a "Chinese" appearance. This campaign, part of President Xi Jinping's "Sinicization" policy, aims to tighten state control over religion. Human Rights Watch condemns these actions as a violation of religious freedom, showcasing instances of mosque dismantling and damage.
As China looks to broker Gaza peace, antisemitism surges online
Even as China seeks to turn down the temperature diplomatically, a surge of antisemitism and anti-Israeli sentiment is proliferating across the Chinese internet and state media, undermining China's efforts to convey impartiality.
Facial recognition powers 'automated apartheid' in Israel, says report
Israel has long restricted the freedom of movement of Palestinians, but technological advances are giving authorities powerful new tools. It is the latest example of the global spread of mass surveillance systems, which rely on AI to learn to identify the faces of people based on large stores of images.
China’s grand designs in resource rich Central Asia face local ire
The growing resentment towards China's debt diplomacy and land encroachment in Central Asia has resulted in over 150 anti-China protests in recent years, with Kyrgyzstan being the worst affected, followed by Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Experts suggest the number could rise due to rising unemployment and state welfare constraints during the pandemic. China's growing investments in the energy, oil, and gas sectors have also drawn criticism. Private Security Companies (PSCs) have been deployed to safeguard Chinese investments, which has raised concerns about their influence.
China pushes for soft-power in key Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan
Central Asia has been facing an unprecedented level of Chinese media outreach. The region has been a strategic priority for China in recent decades as it has built up political and economic influence through various measures including BRI. However, Chinese engagement in Kyrgyzstan goes well beyond the economic and military influence.
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Volkswagen under fire over Xinjiang plant after China chief visit
Volkswagen's China chief Ralf Brandstaetter spent 1-1/2 days on Feb. 16-17 touring the German group's facility in the region, which is part of a joint venture with China's SAIC, along with Volkswagen's compliance and external relations chiefs in China. Brandstaetter said he saw no signs of forced labour and that workers' comments matched the reports Volkswagen had received from SAIC about the plant.
Biden, Erdogan slammed for "failure" to adequately address China's rights abuses at UNGA
On Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also made brief comments on the issue of Uyghurs during his speech addressing the UNGA.
China's Xi Jinping vows to 'defend common security' ahead of Central Asia visit
Xi's state visits to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from Wednesday to Friday will be his first trip abroad since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. He will attend a leaders' summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, a stop on the ancient Silk Road.
Targeting China, EU seeks to ban products made with forced labour
"The prohibition should apply to all products, including their components, and should apply to products regardless of the sector, the origin, whether they are domestic or imported, or placed or made available on the Union market or exported." The paper said that the rules target larger economic operators such as importers, manufacturers, producers and product suppliers because the risks of forced labour are most prevalent and the impact likely to be the largest.
Why is China so angry over UN report on Xinjiang?
The report has been in the works for years and was released despite Chinese efforts to delay or block it, aware of how it could validate claims that more than 1 million ethnic minority members were forcibly sent to centers it says were for vocational training.
UN investigator: Contemporary slavery extensive and in China
Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Tomoya Obokat adds that traditional enslavement, especially of minorities, is found in Mauritania, Mali and Niger in Africa's Sahel region.
China: Wang Yi meets top UN rights official as she opens Xinjiang trip
Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Michelle Bachelet in the southern city of Guangzhou on Monday as she started a trip that is the first to China by a UN high commissioner for human rights since 2005.
First-ever Tibet-based athletes to compete in Winter Games
The Games will also include five competitors from China's western Xinjiang region, media there reported, including two ethnic Kazakhs, one Uyghur, one Kyrgyz and one from China's Han majority.
U.S. adds 14 Chinese companies, to economic black list over Xinjiang
The Commerce Department said the companies had been "implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China’s campaign of repression, mass detention, and high technology surveillance against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region."
US bans imports of solar panel material from Chinese company
US ordered a ban on imports of a key solar panel material from Chinese-based Hoshine Silicon Industry Co over forced labor allegations. When asked for comment, China's embassy in Washington referred to remarks by Zhao Lijian who dismissed accusations of genocide and forced labor in Xinjiang as "nothing but rumors with ulterior motives and downright lies."
Indian-origin journalist bags Pulitzer for exposé on China's vast detention camps for Muslims
Rajagopalan is among two Indian-origin journalists who won the US' top journalism award.
Drop in Xinjiang birthrate largest in recent history: Report
The report from the Australian Strategy Policy Institute, obtained exclusively ahead of publication by The Associated Press, showed the 48.74 per cent decline was concentrated in areas with many Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other largely Muslim ethnic minorities, based on Chinese government statistics over nearly a decade.
World Uyghur Congress complains to IOC on 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing
Evidence submitted along with the Complaint from numerous sources proves that a number of crimes against humanity are taking places such as mass sterilization, arbitrary detention in internment camps, torture, repressive security and surveillance, and forced labour and slavery, the statement claimed.
China hits back; sanctions top US officials, politicians in response to Xinjiang ban
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the media here that the behaviour of the US officials and politicians, and visa ban on some Chinese officials from Uyghur Muslim dominated Xinjiang province "severely damaged China-US relations," and should be condemned.
US sanctions Chinese officials over repression of minorities in Xinjiang; Beijing vows to retaliate
China is accused of mass detentions, religious persecution and forced sterilisation of Uyghurs and others in the resource-rich northwestern province. Authorities there are thought to have detained about a million people in re-education camps in recent years for "vocational training" to counter radicalism and separatism in Xinjiang.
US re-designates Pakistan, China as countries of particular concern on religious freedom
Pakistan and China along with Myanmar, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were placed in the list for having engaged in or tolerated "systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom," Pompeo said.
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