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Xinjiang · XinjiangMany Chinese universities have recently introduced new guidelines to prohibit students from hanging curtains on their beds, calling them "hidden walls" that prevent students from being safe and interacting with each other.The incident has provoked strong reactions from the Internet.The Xinjiang Agricultural University, Xinjiang Medical University, Chinese Media University, Northwestern National University, Gansu National School of Foreign Langua…See the Story
Many high schools in China have banned bed curtains to prevent people from interacting with each other.
Xinjiang · XinjiangA Uyghur butcher serving a seven-year prison sentence in southern Xinjiang for advising friends not to drink alcohol or smoke at a gathering has been released alive and returned to his family, sources with knowledge of the situation said. It marks the first time that one of the roughly 100 jailed Uyghur residents from Xaneriq village had been released alive, said an Uyghur from the area who now lives abroad, but who did not give his name for fea…See the Story
Uyghur butcher served 7 years in jail for urging friends not to drink alcohol or smoke
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Xinjiang · XinjiangA recent report by the United States has shed light on a series of human rights violations in China, including arbitrary arrests, restrictions on freedom of expression, and systemic abuses against ethnic minority groups. From criminal prosecution of journalists to the prohibition of independent trade unions, the findings of The "2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" released by the US on Tuesday, underscore a troubling pattern of oppre…See the Story
China Arbitrarily Detained Over 1 Million Uyghurs From 2017 To 2023: US Report
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Wall Street · XinjiangThe House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party last week released a report detailing investments by two American financial institutions for Chinese companies “red-flagged or blacklisted” by the United States for advancing China’s military or for rights abuses. The report says two fund providers, in particular, are responsible for funneling billions of dollars invested by regular Americans in their index and retirement funds into the c…See the Story
INTERVIEW: ‘There's exposure across Wall Street’
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Xinjiang · XinjiangThis section documents the myriad abuses that the Chinese Communist Party commits against its own people in violation of its commitments under the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.See the Story
Articles On: Chinese Forced Labor and Xinjiang Policies
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Xinjiang · XinjiangThe hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs subjected by China to detention, forced labor and cultural erasure underscores the urgency for global action, panelists said at a two-day interfaith conference on disrupting Uyghur genocide organized by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity that wrapped up Thursday. Survivors, experts, religious leaders and activists participated in panels to discuss the situation of the Uyghurs and called on governments to…See the Story
Interfaith conference seeks to raise awareness about Uyghur genocide
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Social Media · XinjiangAuthorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using social media apps including Chinese-owned TikTok and tools to circumvent censorship, according to a video released from Chinese police, in what experts say could be the beginning of another major crackdown on the region’s 11 million mostly Muslim Uyghurs. A video notice about the ban was released April 8 by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a state-run economic and paramilitary…See the Story
China bans Uyghurs from using social media apps
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Xinjiang · XinjiangThe Congressional Uyghur Caucus is back. Though the caucus never disbanded, the activities of the bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers slowed to a trickle after its chair, Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from New York, retired from his district, which Republican Rep. George Santos then won in the 2022 midterms. Shortly after his shock win, Santos’ personal biography was proved to be a series of lies by a New York Times report. He was then expelled fro…See the Story
US lawmakers relaunch Uyghur caucus
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