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China’s Wen Jiabao in UK as dissident Hu Jia is freed
Human rights campaigner Hu Jia is released from jail while China’s Premier Wen Jiabao continues his two-day stay in the UK, visiting the Chinese-owned MG plant in Longbridge.
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Exclusive: At least 11 police forces in England and Wales supplied by China-owned CCTV firm whose technology is also used to monitor Uyghurs
Channel 4 News can exclusively reveal that the same Chinese company whose technology Beijing is using for the surveillance and oppression of its minority Uyghur community also provides surveillance technology to at least eleven police forces in England and Wales.
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China treatment of Uyghurs may amount to crimes against humanity, says UN
‘Serious human rights violations’ that may amount to ‘crimes against humanity’.
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West has ‘moral obligation…to push back’ over ‘dystopian’ treatment of Uyghurs in China, says author Nury Turkel
Human rights groups believe a network of detention centres across China’s north-western Xinjiang province are being used to detain more than a million Uyghur and Turkic Muslim people.
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China Winter Olympics: Human rights groups call for boycott over Uyghur suppression
A cross-party group of MPs has called for their pension fund to divest from companies linked to Xinjiang, the Chinese province where hundreds of thousands of Muslim Uyghur people have been sent to re-education camps and prisons.
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UK imposes sanctions on Chinese officials over Uighur abuses
The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced sanctions against four senior Chinese officials accused of being behind abuses of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, calling it one of the “worst human rights crises of our time”.
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Uyghur persecution: Evidence of new detention facilities
Is China still persecuting its Uyghur Muslim minority?
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Uyghurs bussed across China for forced labour in factories – new footage
The US State Department announced new sanctions today on some employees of Chinese tech companies, including Huawei, for their involvement in human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region; home to the country’s persecuted Uyghur community.
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The persecution of the Uyghur people: incarceration and re-education
According to the UN, there may be as many as a million Chinese Uyghyrs and other ethnic minorities who have been forced into re-education camps over the past two years. The UN is calling for their immediate release as well as a thorough investigation.
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Escaping China: the perilous journey of the Uighurs
Nearly 300 Uighurs have been found sitting in silence on a mountain in Thailand. Asia correspondent John Sparks investigates and traces the escape route of thousands of Uighurs desperate to flee China.
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Violence and repression: the roots of China’s Uighur unrest
As China’s security apparatus shifts into overdrive in the aftermath of deadly explosions in Xinjiang, an exiled ethnic Uighur leader says a “heavy-handed” Chinese response will make things worse.
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Uighur suspects sought after Tiananmen crash
Chinese authorities are looking for two men from Muslim-dominated Xinjiang, after five people were killed when a car crashed into pedestrians and caught fire in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
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Goodbye Hu, hello who?
As China’s president Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao are replaced as the country’s leaders, who are the candidates tipped to take their places in charge of the world’s emerging superpower?
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Riots in Xinjiang
It’s been brewing for nearly two weeks. The violence in Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang province, seems to have been provoked by an incident in Guangdong in southern China on 26 June. A group of Uighurs, Muslims from Xinjiang, were working in a factory alongside Han Chinese. There’s a lot of prejudice against the…
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China's dissidents are always less equal than others
“According to the law, every Chinese citizen is entitled to a passport and is free to travel overseas as they wish. The reality, however, is that certain individuals hidden behind the invisible screen of the Chinese security apparatus decide if this law applies or not.”
