Uyghur women are victims of sexual violence under the Chinese regime’s campaign of repression in Xinjiang, regardless of whether they are detained in an internment camp or not, according to Nury Turkel, vice chair of the U.S.

In June 2021, a Chinese official allegedly sent Wang and others pre-written articles through the WeChat messaging application, including material disputing accusations of genocide and forced labor in Xinjiang.

Travelers in China’s far-western Xinjiang region are currently confined to hotels and awaiting nucleic acid tests amid a regional COVID-19 outbreak.

“There is no such thing as genocide or forced labor in Xinjiang," the region's government spokesperson Elijan Anayat told reporters Thursday.

Human Rights Council, Secretary of State Antony Blinken also urged the high commissioner to release her report on Xinjiang.

On the same day as the apology, President Biden signed into law a highly anticipated bill that bans imports from Xinjiang.

New-York-based Human Rights Watch also found that the two Alibaba-funded Chinese AI start-ups backed Xinjiang facial recognition technology.

The project was approved in 2014 by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, also known as XPCC or Bingtuan.

Two home-improvement retail giants, Home Depot and Lowe’s, and electronic retail superstore Best Buy have recently removed products made by two Chinese companies with ties to human rights abuses in China. Chinese video surveillance technology makers Lorex and Ezviz are both owned by companies headquartered in China that were added to the U.S. trade blacklist […]

The Dec. 21 sanction from Beijing comes amid escalated pressure from Washington and its allies over the regime’s repression in Xinjiang.

“What changed in Xinjiang I think was the rise in technology,” Gladney said.

Chen was sanctioned by the United States as the Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang. According to a report from Xinhua News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Chinese authority, the Politburo member was replaced from his post in Xinjiang.

China’s agriculture ministry on April 5 reported an outbreak of African swine fever in the Xinjiang region, marking the third occasion the region spotted cases since February.

Hugo Boss said last week on Chinese social media that it would continue sourcing Xinjiang cotton.

Adrian Zenz, a German scholar known for his studies on the Xinjiang concentration camps, expressed concerns that Beijing might be “fundamentally shifting” its strategy.

Commerce Department to blacklist several Chinese firms that allegedly aid Beijing in its surveillance and repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Blackburn, in a Dec. 15 letter to U.S.

A man holds a child at the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, on April 21, 2021.

Xinjiang supplies much of the world's material for solar panels. The White House and congressional Democrats deny delaying the bills. Large solar panels in a solar power plant in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region on May 8, 2013.

The Xinjiang Health Commission reported on Oct. 3 two new cases of asymptomatic infections in Khorgos City, Ili Kazakh Prefecture (Ili Prefecture).

The group were in Xinjiang from March 30 to April 2.

Wang wanted to inform the Taiwan government that his environmental technology factory in Xinjiang, China, was suddenly torn down at the end of November by the Chinese regime without warning.

The Chinese highway G216 in Aksai Chin in the Xinjiang region (Wikimedia Commons) The new road G216 will run south from the international border with Mongolia at Hongshanzui Port in Altay County, located at the northern tip of the Xinjiang region.

Treasury Department named the officials as Wang Junzheng, secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), and Chen Mingguo, director of the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau (XPSB).

Farmers picking cotton in the fields during the harvest season in Hami, in northwest China's Xinjiang region on Sept. 20, 2015.

The U.S. government has already banned all cotton and tomato products from Xinjiang over forced labor concerns.

products from Xinjiang.”

Customs and Border Protection ban on some solar product imports, and sanctions on Xinjiang companies and entities.

“The UK government has led international efforts to hold China to account for its human rights violations in Xinjiang at the U.N.

Nandy said: “For as long as China continues to block access to Xinjiang, no self-respecting government should even consider handing a PR coup to Beijing.