Uighur Muslims

China said it is greatly concerned over the new Syrian government appointing foreign terrorist fighters, especially from the banned Uygur militant group 'the East Turkestan Islamic Movement', to senior military ranks. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) is active in China's volatile Xinjiang province. These remarks were made by Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council Briefing on Syria on Wednesday. China is greatly concerned about the reports that said the Syrian Army has recently granted senior military ranks to a number of foreign terrorist fighters, including the head of Council, a listed terrorist organisation, the Turkistan Islamic Party, also known as the ETIM, Cong said. He called on Syria to fulfil its counter-terrorism obligations and to prevent any terrorist forces from using Syrian territory to threaten the security of other countries, according to official media reports here. Reports from Syria say that the new Syrian regi

The law bans goods made in China's Xinjiang region where Chinese authorities are reported to have established labour camps for ethnic Uyghur and other Muslim groups

The joint statement was issued on Monday and is the largest group of states publicly condemning China's ongoing atrocities in East Turkistan, reported East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE)

The tribunal, headed by British lawyer Geoffrey Nice, has no powers of sanction or enforcement

China's Ambassador to the UK Zheng Zeguang has been barred from UK Parliament over sanctions imposed on some British MPs for their remarks on alleged human rights violations against Uyghur minorities

Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has won Pulitzer Prize exposing China's mass detention camps for Muslim Uighurs and other minority ethnicites

H&M, Burberry, Nike, Adidas and other Western brands have been hit by consumer boycotts in China since last week over comments about their sourcing of cotton in Xinjiang

Biden and Johnson have expressed concerns about actions taken by China after the UK, America and European Union (EU) imposed sanctions on human rights violators in Xinjiang

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top ride-hailing app dropped Swedish fashion retailer H&M from its listings as Chinese celebrities stopped endorsing foreign labels in a growing uproar over Western accusations of forced labour in Xinjiang.

The sanctions came after UK governm­ent's sanctions against Chinese officials for alleged human rights violations against its Uyghur minorities

China this week has pushed a campaign to boycott Western retailers after the US, UK, Canada and the EU imposed sanctions over human-rights abuses against ethnic minority Uyghurs in Xinjiang

The United States will directly raise with China the issue of genocide against Uighur Muslims, the Biden Administration said on Thursday

US blocked imports from 4 firms and manufacturing facility in northwestern China suspected of using forced labour from people detained as part of sweeping crackdown on ethnic minorities in the region

The Trump administration said it has banned imports from three companies in the Xinjiang region of China over Beijing's alleged repression of the Uighur Muslim minority group

A newspaper columnist and some social media commentators have faulted Disney for filming in China's Xinjiang region and for thanking government departments there in the film's credits

China had largely contained local transmission of the virus before the Urumqi outbreak and has taken swift action to bring it under control

The blacklisted companies focus on artificial intelligence and facial recognition, markets that US chip companies like Nvidia Corp and Intel Corp have been heavily investing in

The US already bans imports made with forced labour, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers said virtually anything coming from Xinjiang

Pro-Uighur chants and flags have become commonplace in Hong Kong's marches but Sunday's rally was the first to be specifically dedicated to Uighurs.

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.