Xinjiang Uighurs

Corruption 07/20/22, 18:13

On June 21, 2022, measures imposed by the United States seeking to regulate imports from the Xinjiang region of China, where millions of Uyghurs and members of other minorities persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are estimated to be victims of slave labor in the regime's controversial re-education camps, ...

Human Rights 04/22/22, 17:16

Elon Musk, the owner of the company Tesla, thanked the Chinese Communist Party for allowing the reopening of its "Shanghai Gigafactory," under the "closed-loop system," i.e., employees must live in the factory and even sleep on the floor to achieve the daily production of 2100 electric cars, during the outbreak ...

Human Rights 02/13/22, 19:38

An International Labour Organization (ILO) committee issues a report on Thursday, Feb. 10, expressing "deep concern" about China's policies in the far western region of Xinjiang, calling them discriminatory and urging Beijing to bring its labor practices into line with global standards. As the first and oldest specialized agency of the ...

China 01/08/22, 13:15

NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom lambasted Elon Musk for ignoring human rights abuses committed by the Chinese regime and for opening a Tesla showroom near Xinjiang, the region where the CCP operates concentration camps in which it holds several minorities captive.  The embattled freedom advocate and whistleblower against the Chinese regime's ...

China 12/17/21, 01:07

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, Dec.14 that it discovered Huawei is significantly involved in government surveillance for people programs after analyzing more than one hundred presentations by Huawei corporation (PPT). Many of these documents have "confidential" written on them. Huawei has eluded questions about its role in supporting the CCP ...

South America 12/15/21, 02:13

Two major Uighur activist groups announced that they are preparing a genocide lawsuit against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Argentina because the federal courts of the South American country have already accepted more than one criminal complaint of universal jurisdiction. Even in one of them, a judge requested the ...

D.C. 12/02/21, 15:06

In a last-minute intervention Senate Democrats excluded a bill banning the importation of goods made by millions of people held in concentration camps by the Chinese Communist regime. This bill, titled the Uighur Forced Labor Prevention Act, was excluded from the annual defense appropriations bill last night, according to a memo ...

China 07/07/21, 16:10

A renowned New Zealand academic, a specialist in Chinese domestic politics, has announced that her Twitter account has been temporarily restricted by the social networking giant after she criticized the leader of the Chinese regime, Xi Jinping.  Anne-Marie Brady, a professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, is an ...

China 06/17/21, 15:47

This Wednesday, June 16, 217 Democratic representatives in the House voted against an amendment proposed by Republican Andy Barr of Kentucky that would force U.S. companies to report to the Treasury Department if there are any ties to Uighur slave labor in Xinjiang province. https://twitter.com/GOPLeader/status/1405282067219288065 The amendment was added to H.R. 1187, ...

China 03/22/21, 19:03

Dabancheng has a dark and sinister secret, a massive detention center set in the rolling grey desert sands about 60 miles from Urumqi, the Xinjiang provincial capital. There are more than 10 million Uighurs in Xinjiang, and they speak a Turkic language. Comprehensive security measures have been put in place in the ...

U.S. 02/22/21, 04:03

More than one million Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking minority groups have been held inside internment camps in Xinjiang under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 2017, say international rights groups. It is rare to hear many first-hand accounts from inside China’s internment camps. Still, recently several reports have ...

China 01/15/21, 16:16

Twitter downplays Chinese Communist Party publications that deny the existence of forced labor in Xinjiang province. Amidst the controversial debate over content policies and widespread censorship, Twitter ignores publications that falsely reject the existence of forced labor on Uighur ethnic minorities, despite numerous reports denouncing this scourge. Hua Chuying, a spokesman for ...

China 08/31/20, 13:46

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, speaking at a press conference at the Institute of International Relations in Paris on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 30, about allegations of abuse in Xinjiang's Uighur detention camps, ignored the human rights concerns of European countries and warned against interference in Chinese affairs. In the wake of ...