In a report released on Wednesday, the departing UN human rights chief claimed that severe human rights abuses had occurred in China's Xinjiang region as a result of the implementation of anti-terrorism and "anti-extremism" policies by the government.

Serious human rights violations committed in China's Xinjiang: UN human rights chief

France has opened an inquiry into allegations four fashion groups profited from the forced labour of the Uyghur minority in China. Magistrates at the national anti-terror prosecutor's office in Paris are probing claims the multinational companies are complicit in crimes against humanity, the source said, confirming a report on the Mediapart investigative website.

France launches probe into fashion groups over forced Uyghur labour

China on Wednesday slammed Belgian lawmaker Samuel Cogolati for spreading "lies and false information" after parliamentarians in Brussels approved a resolution warning of "serious risk of genocide" against the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang.

China slams Belgian lawmaker for spreading 'false information' over Xinjiang resolution

The Jiaman mosque in the city of Qira, in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, is hidden behind high walls and Communist Party propaganda signs, leaving passersby with no indication that it is home to a religious site.

Mosques disappear as China strives to 'build beautiful Xinjiang'

China's foreign ministry on Thursday said a report by an Australian think tank citing coercive policies attributing to a sharp decline in Uyghur birth rates aims to "fabricate data and distort the facts".

China says think tank report on Uyghur birth rates decline 'fabricates data'

History is repeating itself in China. The state is murdering its own people and the world is looking the other way. For China, it is nothing new. Every Chinese leader has presided over extermination campaigns - Mao Zedong presided over the great leap forward and the cultural revolution in which tens of millions were killed but it was justified as a necessary upheaval.

Xi Jinping's China trying to systematically dehumanise Uighurs as the world looks away

New Zealand shied away from labelling China's treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority genocide on Wednesday, once again leaving Wellington out of step with its more forthright Western allies.

Why is New Zealand shying away from calling out China?

Britain's parliament called on Wednesday for the government to take action to end what lawmakers described as genocide in China's Xinjiang region, stepping up pressure on ministers to go further in their criticism of Beijing.

Britain's parliament calls for government to take action against genocide in China's Xinjiang

Several brands have come under attack on Chinese social media over the past comments they have made about labour conditions in Xinjiang, part of a diplomatic row between China and the West.

Which foreign brands are feeding China's slave camps in Xinjiang

Uighur Muslims protested against the treatment of their ethnic kin in the farwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang as Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara on Thursday.

Uighur Muslims protest against treatment amid Chinese foreign minister's visit

The largest group representing exiled ethnic Uighurs has written to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to demand that Beijing China close its internment camps in the Xinjiang region in talks on Thursday.

Largest group representing Uighur exiles urge Blinken to demand China close Xinjiang camps

Britain on Monday will call on United Nations to be granted access to the Xinjiang region of China, where excesses against Uighur Muslims have been reported. As part of this, the UK will urge UN to have "urgent and unfettered" access to the region to investigate instances of abuses.

Britain wants UN to have 'urgent' access to Uighur camps in China's Xinjiang

Over 50 religious leaders across Ireland have condemned the persecution of Uighurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province in a statement. The statement issued by the human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide in August 2020, has been signed by representatives of religious communities from across the island of Ireland.

Irish religious leaders condemn the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China

Turkey has been accused of agreeing to hand over Uighur Muslims to China in exchange for access to its COVID-19 vaccines. In recent years, China has forcefully cracked down on Uighurs around the world, using their religion to cite a national security threat.

Exiled Uighurs in Turkey fear sellout to China in exchange for vaccine

Turkey has begun countrywide COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday shortly after China-produced vaccine Sinovac was granted emergency authorisation. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca received a shot on live television, followed by members of Turkey's advisory science council.

Turkey accused of trading Uighurs for Chinese covid-19 vaccine

Britain's prime minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday the UK should avoid falling into an "unthinking Sinophobia" amid tensions with China over human rights abuses and access to Britain's 5G market.

UK PM Boris Johnson warns against 'unthinking Sinophobia' amid tensions with China

Turkey on Wednesday brushed aside fears that a new extradition treaty with China would result in Ankara deporting Muslim Uighurs en masse. Earlier, China announced the ratification of an extradition treaty with Turkey that human rights groups warn could endanger Uighur families and activists fleeing persecution by Chinese authorities if it is adopted by Ankara.

Turkey brushes aside fears of Uighur deportations to China

After reports emerged that China had employed "ethnic minority" groups in Xinjiang to force them to work in cotton farms, the Chinese government denied the allegation.

China denies reports of forced labour in Xinjiang's cotton farms

Chinese President Xi Jinping is mulling to introduce new rules to prohibit ''religious extremism'' in the latest crackdown on foreign religious groups and worshipers.

China's Xi Jinping planning to prohibit 'religious extremism'

President of the World Uighur Congress, Dolkun Isa, spoke exclusively to WION's Executive editor Palki Sharma on the persecution of Uighurs in China and on the Xi Jinping regime.

We know upto 3 million Uighurs are suffering in concentration camps, says Dolkun Isa, President World Uighur Congress to WION 

China's war against Xinjiang has touched a new law as reports claim that Chinese authorities have built a public toilet on the site of a demolished mosque. The incident took place in the Atush region of Xinjiang.

Chinese authorities demolish mosque in Xinjiang, build public toilet

A video of a 31-year-old male model Merden Ghappar first shared by BBC, gives a rare glimpse inside internment of the Uighur Muslims in China. In the video, Ghappar, a model for the massive Chinese online retailer Taobao, can be seen handcuffed to the metal frame of the bed.

Model's rare video highlights plight of Uighur Muslims in China

Uighur Muslims have been persecuted for their religion. but the Muslim nations of the world have been notable in their silence. Tales of arbitrary detention, rape, organ harvesting and forced conversions have been doing the rounds for years now.

Amid pandemic, US sanctions Chinese officials over Uighur abuses

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged China to reveal all it knows about the coronavirus outbreak in a meeting with a top Chinese official in Hawaii on Wednesday as new revelations about President Donald Trump and China rocked Washington.

US-China tensions: Pompeo meets Chinese officials, US sanctions over Uighur atrocities