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UN rights chief admits 'tremendous pressure' over Xinjiang report

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 25 08:08 PM

The UN rights chief said Thursday she was facing "tremendous pressure" over a long-delayed report on China's Xinjiang region and admitted that she was uncertain when it would appear. Read more »

US enforces Xinjiang import ban

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 21 04:47 PM

A US law broadly banning imports from China's Xinjiang region took effect Tuesday, a move aimed at adding pressure over Beijing's alleged use of forced labor among the Uyghur minority. Read more »

UN rights envoy defends controversial China visit

Aidan Jones and Laurie Chen, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 29 12:11 AM

The UN rights envoy on Saturday defended her contentious visit to China, but urged authorities to avoid "arbitrary and indiscriminate" measures in Xinjiang, a region where Beijing is accused of widespread human rights abuses. Read more »

Xinjiang leak sheds new light on China's 're-education' camps

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 24 08:54 PM

A leak of thousands of photos and official documents from China's Xinjiang has shed new light on the violent methods used to enforce mass internment in the region, researchers said Tuesday. Read more »

IOC chief rebukes Beijing Olympics organizers

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 18 05:42 PM

The IOC called an immediate meeting with Chinese organizers to remind them to keep politics out of the Beijing Olympics, president Thomas Bach said Friday, after a local spokeswoman hit back at "lies" about Xinjiang. Read more »

US enacts law to ban Xinjiang imports over China's forced labor

Kyodo News
Posted at Dec 24 04:05 PM

US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law a bill effectively banning all imports from China's Xinjiang region amid concerns over the use of forced labor involving its Uyghur ethnic minority, immediately triggering a backlash from the Communist-led government. Read more »

'Chinese Uyghur study breached ethics code'

Kirsty Needham, Reuters
Posted at Sep 15 10:10 PM

The study funded by the Chinese government said 'face recognition has great application potential in border control, customs check, and public security'. Read more »

China unveils new legal weapon to hit US, Western rivals with tougher sanctions

Ng Kang-chung and Tony Cheung, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Jun 08 12:28 PM

China’s top legislative body is set to pass a new anti-sanction law on Thursday, giving substantive legal backing and protection to the country’s retaliatory measures against punitive actions by Western governments on Chinese officials and companies.   Read more »

'Uyghur Tribunal' hears allegations of rampant China abuses

Callum Paton, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 05 12:21 AM

A London panel investigating the plight of Uyghurs in China on Friday heard witness testimony of torture and gang rapes, in a process slammed by Beijing as a mendacious smear. Read more »

Blinken says China ‘criminalizes religious expression’ as report on religious freedom is released

Mark Magnier in Washington, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 13 12:59 PM

The annual State Department report on international religious freedom calls out Beijing for suppressing Christians, Uyghur Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists. Antony Blinken also announces the placing of sanctions on a Communist Party official for ‘gross violations of human rights’. Read more »

China foreign ministry says planned UN event on Xinjiang an 'insult'

Reuters
Posted at May 10 07:29 PM

BEIJING - China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Monday that the use of the United Nations as a platform for a virtual event on the repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang was an insult to the institution. Read more »

G7 ends talks with criticism of China, Russia, Iran

Shaun Tandon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 06 11:04 AM

The Group of Seven wealthy democracies on Wednesday wrapped up their first in-person meeting in more than two years, accusing China of human rights abuses and a crackdown on pro-democracy figures, while voicing fears about Russian aggression against Ukraine. Read more »

Panel recommends that US officials not go to China's 2022 Olympics

Michael Martina and Simon Lewis, Reuters
Posted at Apr 22 04:20 AM

President Joe Biden's administration signaled earlier this year that it had no plans to bar American athletes from participating in the Beijing Games.   Read more »

Japan expresses concerns to China about territorial waters

Reuters
Posted at Apr 05 10:54 PM

TOKYO - Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi has expressed strong concerns to his Chinese counterpart about Chinese incursions into territorial waters, the situation in Hong Kong and the human rights situation of China's Uighur minority. Read more »

Chinese branch of Better Cotton Initiative challenges HQ, says no evidence of Xinjiang forced labor

Mimi Lau, South China Morning Post
Posted at Mar 30 10:58 PM

The Chinese branch of an organization set up to promote good practice in the cotton industry has publicly split with its headquarters over claims of forced labor in Xinjiang, insisting that it has found no evidence it is taking place.   Read more »

UN panel warns ‘well-known global brands’ may be linked to Xinjiang human rights abuses

Robert Delaney, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Mar 30 01:05 PM

Scores of Chinese and foreign companies producing “well-known global brands” may be involved in human trafficking, forced labor and other human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, a United Nations working group said on Monday, calling more attention to an issue that Beijing is increasingly on the defensive about.   Read more »

UN in talks with China for unrestricted Xinjiang visit

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 07:27 AM

The UN is in negotiations with Beijing for a visit "without restrictions" to Xinjiang to see how the Uighur minority is being treated, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview broadcast Sunday. Read more »

EU imposes China sanctions over Xinjiang abuses

Robin Emmott, Reuters
Posted at Mar 22 09:55 PM

BRUSSELS - The European Union imposed sanctions on Monday on four Chinese officials, including a top security director, for human rights abuses in Xinjiang, the first sanctions against Beijing since an arms embargo in 1989 following the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Read more »

Britain denounces abuses 'on industrial scale' in China's Xinjiang

Reuters
Posted at Feb 22 09:49 PM

GENEVA - Britain's foreign secretary Dominic Raab on Monday denounced torture, forced labor and sterilizations that he said were taking place against Muslim Uighurs on an "industrial scale" in China's Xinjiang region.   Read more »

Reports of systematic rape of Muslims in China camps shock US

David Brunnstrom, Reuters
Posted at Feb 04 09:28 AM

WASHINGTON - The United States is "deeply disturbed" by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region and there must be serious consequences for atrocities committed there, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.   Read more »