Topic: xinjiang

China conducting 'intense' global attack on rights: HRW

China conducting 'intense' global attack on rights: HRW

Peter Hutchison, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 15 07:44 AM

Human Rights Watch made the allegation in its annual report, launched at the United Nations headquarters in New York two days after executive director Kenneth Roth was barred from entering Hong Kong to release it there.   Read more »

China ramps up campaign to redefine 'human rights'

China ramps up campaign to redefine 'human rights'

Jing Xuan Teng, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 13 03:25 PM

China is ramping up a global campaign to promote its own vision of human rights, inviting the likes of North Korea and Syria to a forum on the topic and drafting other countries to back its policies at the UN.   Read more »

‘Absolutely no mercy’: Leaked files show China’s mass detentions in officials’ own words

‘Absolutely no mercy’: Leaked files show China’s mass detentions in officials’ own words

Austin Ramzy and Chris Buckley, The New York Times
Updated as of Nov 21 07:40 AM

Beijing has sought for decades to suppress Uighur resistance to Chinese rule in Xinjiang. The current crackdown began after a surge of anti-government and anti-Chinese violence, including ethnic riots in 2009 in Urumqi, the regional capital, and a May 2014 attack on an outdoor market that killed 39 people just days before Xi convened a leadership conference in Beijing to set a new policy course for Xinjiang. Read more »

World Bank scales back project in China’s Xinjiang region

World Bank scales back project in China’s Xinjiang region

Alan Rappeport, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 12 08:59 AM

The Chinese government has been facing criticism for detaining more than a million Muslim Uighurs and placing them in “re-education” camps where they are forced to renounce their religious beliefs and embrace the ideology of the Communist Party. Read more »

China sharpens hacking to hound its minorities, far and wide

China sharpens hacking to hound its minorities, far and wide

Nicole Perlroth, Kate Conger and Paul Mozur, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 23 06:59 AM

SAN FRANCISCO — China’s state-sponsored hackers have drastically changed how they operate over the last three years, substituting selectivity for what had been a scattershot approach to their targets and showing a new determination by Beijing to push its surveillance state beyond its borders. Read more »

Xinjiang: The making of China's far west police state

Xinjiang: The making of China's far west police state

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 09 03:09 PM

BEIJING, China - China's all-encompassing security crackdown in Xinjiang has turned the northwest region -- home to most of the country's ethnic Uighur population -- into a place activists describe as an open air prison.  Read more »

US puts Hikvision, Chinese security bureaus on economic blacklist

US puts Hikvision, Chinese security bureaus on economic blacklist

David Shepardson, Reuters
Updated as of Oct 08 11:42 AM

Those added to the so-called "Entity List" include the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region People’s Government Public Security Bureau, 19 subordinate government agencies and eight commercial firms, according to a Commerce Department filing. The companies include Zhejiang Dahua Technology, IFLYTEK Co, Xiamen Meiya Pico Information Co and Yixin Science and Technology Co. Read more »

'Nightmare' as Egypt aided China to detain Uighurs

'Nightmare' as Egypt aided China to detain Uighurs

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 19 08:31 AM

CAIRO, Egypt - Abdulmalik Abdulaziz, an Uighur student, was arrested and handcuffed by Egyptian police and when they removed his blindfold he was surprised to see Chinese officials questioning him in custody.  Read more »

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