This 46-page document lays bare the scale and severity of the human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang.
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China: Families of Xinjiang detainees speak out as they await long-overdue UN report
Amnesty International today published heartbreaking new testimony from relatives of 48 ethnic Uyghur and Kazakh people detained in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as it reiterated its call for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to take action. The outgoing High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, has yet to release a long-awaited report on serious human rights violations …
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: UN must act on Xinjiang atrocities after petition shows mass global outrage
More than 323,000 people worldwide sign Amnesty International’s ‘Free Xinjiang Detainees’ petition, which urges UN to investigate human rights violations against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities.
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: Draconian repression of Muslims in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity
Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region face systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, torture and persecution amounting to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said as it launched a new report and campaign today. In the 160-page report, ‘Like We Were Enemies in a War’: China’s Mass Internment, Torture, and …
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.
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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