In 1967, at age 21, she moved more than 2,000 miles to Xinjiang, a traditionally pastoral region, and applied to join the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a paramilitary organization tasked with developing the area—in order to exploit its resources

London-based people’s tribunal concluded that forced organ harvesting had been carried out in China on a “significant scale” and that the primary targets were Falun Gong practitioners, with Uyghurs, who face continued mass detention and forced labor in Xinjiang

These companies were flagged for their connections to Beijing's repression of Uyghur Muslim minorities in China's Xinjiang region.

Chinese policemen push Uyghur women who are protesting in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, on July 7, 2009.

In the far-western region of Xinjiang, the CCP is committing “physical genocide” against Uyghurs, putting millions in detention camps and taking children from their parents, according to the report.

Mahuta also brought up the human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, erosion of rights and freedom in Hong Kong, expressed concerns over increasing tension in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea, and reiterated New Zealand’s condemnation of Russia

The ministry accused Rubio of trying to “whip up the ‘genocide’ accusation” regarding Xinjiang.

Yeh said that Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries resent the CCP’s persecution of Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic group in Xinjiang, China. “They can’t express it explicitly, because they need to cooperate with China," he said.

Adrian Zenz, Ph.D., (interviewer), senior fellow in China Studies, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Martin Dimitrov, professor of Political Science, Tulane University Crime and Consequence: Pursuing Legal Action on the Xinjiang Atrocity Through

The United Nations estimates that more than 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been detained in internment camps in the Xinjiang region.

(Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) The Xinjiang Police Files were cited by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as evidence of China’s “serious human rights violations” in Xinjiang.

Chinese Tech Companies' Links To The CCP Hikvision and Dahua are two of the world’s largest video surveillance manufactures, and both were accused of being involved in the CCP’s human rights violation against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

"On the last day of 2021, we meet in Xinjiang,” Musk wrote on Weibo, the Chinese Twitter-like platform. “In 2022, let’s start an all-electric journey in Xinjiang!”

Xinjiang officials told reporters at a Beijing media conference in late July that transfers of workers outside of Xinjiang are common and voluntary.

“So now they've got a camera for every other person in all of China, you've got these data centers for knowing what the genetic code of most people is, certainly in Xinjiang, and in many places,” he added.

The statement addressed Taiwan, the South China Sea, and human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong. However, it did not mention the abuse of Chinese democracy advocates on the mainland or the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

Protests have erupted across the mainland over the weekend, triggered by a deadly high-rise apartment fire in Urumqi, the capital city of China’s far western Xinjiang region, reportedly killing 10 people.

And the Uyghurs in Xinjiang of northwestern China are predominantly Muslims. He added, “This is a human body that has been commercialized.”

Firefighters spray water on a fire at a residential building in Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang region on Nov. 24, 2022, in a still from video.

Chinese police detain a journalist at a checkpoint on the road to the riot-affected Uyghur town of Lukqun, Xinjiang Province, on June 28, 2013.

Following the protests in Xinjiang, many residents in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, and other cities broke through COVID-19 blockades, taking to the streets in violation of the regime’s lockdown orders.

Between 2009 and 2023, the NY Times published hundreds of reports on the human rights abuses in Tibet and Xinjiang, according to a 2024 report by the Falun Dafa Information Center (FDIC). But how many articles were published about Falun Gong?

He hailed the newly enacted U.S. legislation called the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which outlaws goods sourced or manufactured in the Xinjiang region.

The rules are enforced through facial recognition surveillance cameras that blanket much of Xinjiang. Being caught in a violation could result in detention.

A coalition of human rights organizations is asking a federal body to investigate several Canadian companies for allegedly sourcing products created by forced labour in China’s Xinjiang region.

The protesters outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Sunday night also mourned the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire in the Xinjiang region that critics blame on the anti-virus controls that have restricted millions of people to their homes

Human Rights Abuses The communiqué states that G-7 leaders are “gravely concerned”—a term not used in last year's summit—about the human rights violations in China, particularly forced labor in Xinjiang and Tibet.

Both firms are also known to supply surveillance equipment that has been used to target Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang region.

Anta Sports, which was the official Olympics uniform supplier for the Beijing Winter Games in 2022, has faced heavy international scrutiny for refusing to say whether the cotton from its products is from the northwest region of Xinjiang, China.

A GCL-Poly Energy Holdings facility in Changji, Xinjiang region, China, on March 2, 2021. Factories in Xinjiang produce nearly half the world's polysilicon supply.