On Jan. 31, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP) announced its decision to back out of the public inquiry aimed at investigating foreign interference in Canada's 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
Rahima Mahmut, UK director of the World Uyghur Congress and executive director of Stop Uyghur Genocide, previously told The Epoch Times that she was “incredibly hurt” the Foreign Office agreed to meet Tuniyaz and that it was "ridiculous to suggest" that
ET on Nov. 29 to discuss some bills regarding East Asia, including amendment of the Tibetan Policy Act of 2002, support of the human rights of Uyghurs and members of other minority groups, requirement of the president to remove the extension of certain
“It's very important because, like I said, the Communist Party, especially what they're doing with the Falun Gong people, the Tibetans, and the Uyghurs, is criminal,” Mr. Wasko said. “It's absolutely criminal.
Shannon Edwards tackles the complex issue of facial recognition technology, focusing on privacy concerns and the technology's misuse—such as China's surveillance of Uyghur Muslims.
Surely, if they had a Uyghur or someone from Taiwan sitting in front of them, they would be ashamed to talk about how they helped with Uyghur repression, and weapons to attack Taiwan," she said.
A photo from a report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project showing a village team standing with a newlywed Uyghur-Han couple in Aksu County, a Uyghur-majority prefecture in southern East Turkistan.
“Ethnic and religious minority groups—particularly Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, Christians, Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, and others—have faced targeted repression, including through separation of children from families in boarding schools
“From whitewashing the genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, to excusing the CCP’s continued bankrolling of Russia’s war against Ukraine, China Daily’s mission is to propagate the goals of the party,” the senators wrote.
This allowed the Party organ to exert control over policies related to overseas Chinese, as well as policies related to religious groups and ethnic minorities, such as Tibetans and Uyghurs.
The CrowdStrike report also highlights that the use of AI in cyber snooping has bolstered the CCP’s political efforts domestically, where it is deployed to oppress members of the Falun Gong spiritual group, Uyghur Muslims, pro-democracy activists, Tibet
The department stated that Harvard’s leadership "further facilitated, and engaged in coordinated activity" with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including by "hosting and training members of a CCP paramilitary group complicit in the Uyghur genocide.
Dirks: Research associate at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Sophie Luo: Wife of detained Chinese human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi
Rushan Abbas: founder and executive director, Campaign for Uyghurs
Commerce Department’s blacklist in October 2019 over their roles in supporting Beijing’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.
Earlier this year, Thailand deported 40 Uyghurs to China at Beijing's request, drawing condemnation from world leaders and sanctions from the United States.
Last December, Canada imposed sanctions on eight Chinese senior officials accused of “grave human rights violations,” saying the move was in response to the Chinese regime-led repression of ethnic and religious minorities, including the Muslim Uyghurs
Common targets include exiled opposition politicians, journalists who fled persecution, religious minorities such as Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners, business figures caught in political disputes, and ethnic diaspora activists.
TikTok's CEO has refused to acknowledge the regime's persecution of Uyghurs, and multiple studies have found that the app censors content about the regime's persecution of ethnic and religious minorities.
It also warns that the growth of demand for renewable energy technologies to tackle the climate crisis has led to further risks of exploitation, "with evidence of state-imposed forced labour of Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim majority groups in China
Young Kim (R-Calif.) said family members of Radio Free Asia journalists reporting on the Uyghur Muslim genocide in China’s Xinjiang region were being actively persecuted and imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party.
Think of the Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and Tibetans in China, the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Darfuri in Sudan, the Tutsi in Rwanda. Do we forget nothing and learn nothing?
The latest House version by Salazar includes specific provisions requiring the educational materials to outline the abuses by the Chinese communist regime, including the ongoing repression of Uyghur Muslims in China's far west region of Xinjiang, the
The SHU report points out that “companies that have created supply chains purportedly free of XUAR [Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] inputs continue to source from suppliers or sub-suppliers that have exposure to the Uyghur Region for other product
Victims of organ harvesting often include members of other minorities and religious groups detained in China, such as Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and Christians.
former British non-permanent judge in Hong Kong, "The rule of law is dead in Hong Kong," Fong stressed that the British government should not treat the situation in Hong Kong as business as usual and should listen to the voices of Hongkongers, Tibetans, Uyghurs