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Uighur women and girls are not only enduring unspeakable cruelties in internment camps, subject to draconian sterilisation procedures, rape and sexual violence, but also in their everyday home lives.
Dozens of Uighurs and supporters gathered outside the Chinese embassy in Washington to raise awareness of human rights abuses against the religious and ethnic minority group.
Turkey's growing influence in the Horn of Africa
Analysis: In the last decade, Turkey has moved from being a peripheral country with little presence in the Horn of Africa to one of the region's most indispensable partners.
China bans BBC World News for content 'violation'
A recent BBC report broadcast claims of the systematic rape and sexual abuse of women at detention camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in ...
'Boycott Beijing Olympics' over 'Muslim genocide', British MPs demand
Senior UK politicians have urged British athletes to boycott next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to a 'genocide' against Uighurs ...
'Credible case' China carrying out genocide against Uighurs: lawyers
The British government has so far stopped short of invoking the term "genocide", arguing only courts can make that legal definition.
US 'deeply disturbed' at reports of Uighur mass rape
The US has called for an investigation on the systematic rape and sexual abuse against Muslim Uighur women in Chinese internment camps following ...
Chinese police database reveals large-scale monitoring of Muslim minorities
A massive Chinese police database has shed further light on the close monitoring of Muslim minority groups in China's Xinjiang province.
Biden adviser wants more action against China over Uighurs
A top security adviser to US President Joe Biden says China-related issues are a priority in upcoming talks with European allies.
Twitter blocks Chinese embassy account over Uighur tweet
Twitter has blocked the account of the Chinese embassy in the US after its post about Uighur women.
China dismisses Pompeo Uighur genocide claim as 'outrageous lies'
China has clapped back at growing backlash over its maltreatment of Uighur Muslims.
US declares China committing 'genocide' against Uighurs
The US declared that China is carrying out genocide against Uighurs and other mostly Muslim groups.
Human rights whistle-blower claims UN will 'fire' her
Lawyer Emily Reilly is claiming that the United Nations intends to 'fire' her after she spoke out about Uighur dissident names allegedly being ...
US to block cotton from China's Xinjiang region
The US government will halt imports of cotton and tomatoes from China's Xinjiang region over Beijing's treatment of the country's Uighur ...
Harvard students say US must help free detained Uighur
Ekpar Asat was detained after taking part in a State Department-linked exchange programme in the US.
Apple supplier 'using forced Uighur labour': report
Apple has denied any role or connection to forced labour practices in China following the release of a report by the Tech Transparency Project.
570,000 Uighurs 'forced into China cotton picking camps': report
Researchers believe that the actual number of Uighurs suspected of being forced into the cotton picking industry could be hundreds of thousands ...
ICC requests more evidence for Uighur genocide allegations
Lawyers have reportedly been briefed that the ICC will decide there is still not enough evidence for a full-scale investigation.
Australian Uighur family reunited after leaving Xinjiang
Sadam Abudusalamu met his three-year-old son for the first time on Thursday when the family were reunited at Sydney airport.
US removes group blamed by China from terror list
The US announced its removal of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which China regularly blames for its crackdown on the Xinjiang region, from ...
'EU fighting coronavirus with Chinese thermal cameras oppressing Uighurs'
Thermal cameras manufactured by Hikvision, a firm blacklisted by the US for alleged links to Chinese Uighur surveillance, are reportedly being ...
Turkey to send research ship to east Mediterranean again
Turkey announced plans to send the research ship at the centre of an energy rights row with Greece to the eastern Mediterranean again,
In-depth: China's mass sterilisation of Uighur Muslim women is rooted in Beijing's obsession with extreme population control.
Fears for Uighur Muslim detainees amid Xinjiang coronavirus outbreak
A rise in reported Covid-19 cases in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province could mean the virus is spreading among Uighur detainees.
China's Uighur minority have faced gross human rights abuses.
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