Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2008, Michael Clarke, an Australian terrorism scholar, noted that "there has emerged within the Uighur émigré community a tendency to portray the Uighurs as experiencing a form of 'cultural genocide '", citing as an example a 2004 speech by World Uyghur Congress president Erkin Alptekin. [293]
Chinese authorities acknowledged that birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018 in Xinjiang, but denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide. [25] Birth rates in Xinjiang fell a further 24% in 2019, compared to a nationwide decrease of 4.2%. [19] The Chinese government denies having committed human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
The Xinjiang papers have been cited as evidence of Uyghur genocide by the Chinese government against Uyghur Muslims. [37] [42] [43] Along with other leaked documents, the publication of the Xinjiang papers led to increased attention and scrutiny of China's internment camps in Xinjiang. [4]
The U.N. accused China of serious human rights violations that may amount to “crimes against humanity” in a long-delayed report examining a crackdown on Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic ...
A Uyghur store in Istanbul's Zeytinburnu neighborhood displays the flags of Turkey, left, and East Turkestan, a region in China that the Uyghur community considers their homeland, on July 31, 2023 ...
Apartheid, torture, "re-education", mosque destruction, Mandarin replacing Uyghur language in schools, government surveillance, forced consumption of alcohol, sexual assault [1] Turkel praises Mike Pompeo for calling the actions genocide and praises Joe Biden for passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
A New York Times report this weekend revealed that the conditions of the detained Uyghur men, all aged between 25 and 50 years, have been inhumane and incompatible with fundamental human rights.
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (S. 3744) [1] is a United States federal law that requires various United States government bodies to report on human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese government against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China, including the Xinjiang internment camps. [2] [3]