The Taliban s successful takeover of the power vacuum left by the fugitive president Ghani on Sunday has sparked a media and political whirlwind in the West, with.
Almaty: Kazakhs protesting for over 100 days against their relatives detention in Xinjiang ANI | Updated: May 20, 2021 22:10 IST
Almaty [Kazakhstan], May 20 (ANI): The relatives of Kazakh people, who have been detained in re-education camps in China s northwestern region of Xinjiang, have been protesting for over 100 days in the city of Almaty in Kazakhstan.
They have called on Kazakh authorities to pressure China to release them. The May 18 rally marked the 100th consecutive day of protests, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (RFERL) reported.
Kazakh national Qalida Aqytkhan was blocked by police from reaching the Chinese Consulate as she held a picture of her three sons who have been imprisoned in Xinjiang on unfounded charges.
UN members ask China to give unfettered access to Xinjiang ANI | Updated: May 13, 2021 20:34 IST
New York [US], May 13 (ANI): A group of United Nations members has asked China to grant immediate, meaningful and unfettered access for the group s human rights chief to Xinjiang to inspect human rights abuses of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.
In a virtual hearing called by Britain, Germany and the United States and backed by 15 other mostly Western UN member states, China was accused by a procession of ambassadors, rights groups and academics of systematic persecution of minorities in the far western region, South China Morning Post reported.
Brothers of US-based journalist detained after Xinjiang coverage, in apparent intimidation bid ANI | Updated: Mar 09, 2021 06:02 IST
Washington [US], March 9 (ANI): Two brothers of US-based Journalist Eset Sulaiman have been detained by the authorities in China s Xinjiang as part of an intimidation campaign aimed at preventing him from reporting on rights abuses, according to Radio Free Asia.
Sulaiman is a Uyghurs Service editor at Radio Free Asia, which is funded by the United States government and is based in Washington.
Sulaiman s older brother Ehet, the 57-year-old director of the Tengritagh Township Teaching District in Kumul (in Chinese, Hami) prefecture, and his younger brother Ehmet, the 39-year-old head of Kumul s Tengritagh township, have both been detained since 2018, RFA recently learned after interviewing several local officials.
UK chides China for rights abuse of Uyghur minority ANI | Updated: Jan 12, 2021 23:26 IST
London [UK], January 12 (ANI): The United Kingdom on Tuesday blasted China for the harrowing treatment of its Uyghur minority and said will introduce new measures to ensure that UK companies are not part of Xinjiang region supply chain.
Addressing the country s Parliament, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Tuesday said that the evidence of the scale and severity of the human rights violation being purported in Xinjiang against the Uyghur Muslims is now far-reaching. The evidence of the scale and severity of the human rights violation being purported in Xinjiang against the Uyghur Muslims is now far-reaching and it paints the truly harrowing picture. Violations include extrajudicial detention of over a million Uyghur Muslims in reeducation camps, he said.