This 46-page document lays bare the scale and severity of the human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang.
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China: UN human rights chief must seize critical opportunity to address crimes against humanity in Xinjiang
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights must address crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations when her team visits China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region this week, Amnesty International said today as the UN’s long-awaited trip got under way. A team led by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet will spend six days in China including Xinjiang, …
Report: China’s Mass Internment, Torture and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang
Amnesty International’s latest report Like We Were Enemies In A War is a comprehensive human rights investigation into the crushing repression faced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Based on scores of interviews – 55 of them with former detainees – the investigation since October 2019 found evidence …
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Report: China’s Mass Internment, Torture and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang
Amnesty International’s latest report Like We Were Enemies In A War is a comprehensive human rights investigation into the crushing repression faced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Based on scores of interviews – 55 of them with former detainees – the investigation since October 2019 found evidence …
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China: Parents of missing Uyghur children describe horror of family separation
The exiled families of Uyghur children held in state “orphanages” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang described the torment of being separated in a new piece of Amnesty International research released today. The organization spoke to parents who have been completely cut off from their children – some as young as five years old – and cannot return …
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Report: The nightmare of Uyghur families separated by repression
Amnesty International speaks to six Uyghur parents who have been separated from their children in the hopes of reunification.
Nowhere feels safe: Uyghurs share their plight
Uyghurs tell of China-led intimidation campaign abroad It has been nearly three years since China launched an unprecedented campaign of mass detention of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic groups. This has taken place in Xinjiang – the Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. During this time, details about the treatment of the estimated …
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China: End hollow denials and give answers to victims of horrific Xinjiang abuses
Responding to another leak of official Chinese government documents (labelled “The China Cables”) detailing the framework for facilities that led to abuses of hundreds of thousands of predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in detention camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), Amnesty International’s Campaigns Director for East Asia, Lisa Tassi, said: “China’s continued denial of …
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