US President Joe Biden on Wednesday wished Muslims across the world 'Ramadan Kareem' as the holy month of fasting began. However, surprising many, Biden expressed solidarity with China's embattled 'Uyghur' minority population facing an existential crisis.

Joe Biden mentions 'Uyghur Muslims' in his Ramadan wish, expresses solidarity

Chen Quanguo, the former party secretary of Tibet and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been shown the door by Xi Jinping after the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Congress that closed on Saturday.

Chen Quanguo, architect of the 'Uyghur genocide', ousted from China’s top leadership body

The release of a formal investigation into the widespread incarceration of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities by UN top human rights official Michelle Bachelet is expected next week.

UN report on Uyghur abuses to be released soon. Will it call out China?

In an attempt to show the world that its treatment of Uyghur Muslims is not as barbaric as the world media reports it to be, China has allowed a Turkish delegation to visit the Xinjiang province, the ground zero for the genocide of the minority group.

China invites Turkey to visit Xinjiang, the ground zero of Uyghur Muslims genocide

China's newly appointed ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian faced heckling as he gave a speech at a local university in Sydney. Qian, who took up the role in January was speaking about the future of frosty relations between China and Australia when multiple protestors interrupted him.

China's ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian heckled, called 'representative of a genocidal dictatorship'

As of yesterday, imports from China's Xinjiang region were prohibited in the United States under new laws. Firms will have to certify that goods from the region are not made using forced labour under the laws.

Uyghur genocide: US prohibits imports from China's Xinjiang region

As United Nations' Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet visits China, Uyghurs have urged her to avoid falling victim to a public relations stunt and ask hard questions in Xinjiang.

Uyghurs urge UN rights chief to ask hard questions in Xinjiang and not be misled by 'PR stunts'

A UN team is in China ahead of a visit to Xinjiang to prepare for the long-awaited inspection by the UN human rights commissioner, which is set to take place next month.

Uyghur genocide: UN team arrives in China ahead of visit by human rights chief

The United States has blacklisted Chinese biotech firms for trying to seek surveillance on the Uyghur minority. Trade with the Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 of its research institutes has been restricted by the US Commerce Department over its biotechnology work including "purported brain-control weaponry.

'Purported brain-control weaponry': US blacklists Chinese biotech firms over Uyghur surveillance

A London-based Tribunal has found China guilty of committing genocide against Uyghurs. The US won a bid in London's High Court to have Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited from the UK.

Top 10 world news: Jinping responsible for Uyghur 'genocide,' CDS Gen Rawat laid to rest and more

On Wednesday, the US House of Representatives passed a law banning imports from China's Xinjiang region because of concerns about forced labour. This is one of three measures that has received overwhelming backing, amid Washington's push back against Beijing's treatment of the Uyghurs Muslim minority.

'Forced labour': US House passes law to ban imports from China's Xinjiang

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report issued Tuesday that China had escalated its crimes against the Muslim community of Uyghurs in the northwestern region of Xinjiang and that it was “gravely concerned” that the government “may be committing genocide.

US Holocaust Museum says China ‘may be committing genocide’ against Uyghurs

China's state-run Global Times in its report claimed that the population of ethnic minorities in the restive Xinjiang region has grown in "size and quality" as the government released a white paper on Xinjiang's population.

China's white paper claims rise in Uyghur population in Xinjiang

The Biden administration on Friday imposed sanctions against 34 companies and entities linked to China's military and policy towards the Uyghur minority including those involved with allowing exports to Russia and Iran.

US sanctions 34 companies with links to China's Uyghur policy, ties with Iran, Russia

Adding to concerns about the inhumane treatment of the Uighur community in Xinjiang, new research has claimed that birth rates have fallen in the Chinese region by almost half in the past two years.

Birth rate fell in Xinjiang after implementation of birth control policies: Report

The US House of Representatives introduced a bipartisan resolution on Wednesday, strongly condemning China’s ill-treatment of the Uighur community and other minorities, especially in the Xinjiang region.

US House urges Biden to refer Uighur 'genocide' to United Nations

After a parliamentary study established "genocide" against the Uyghurs in China, members of Parliament in Canada are continuing to push for the Justin Trudeau led-government to impose sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses.

After parliamentary study on Uyghur 'genocide', Canada pushes for sanctions on Chinese officials

Protesters rallied on Thursday at Dhaka National Press Club under the banner of ‘Uyghur Muslim Rights Council’ (Uyghur Musalmaner Odhikar Parishad) to demand political and religious rights for the persecuted people in Xinjaing Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.

Protests in Bangladesh over persecution of Uyghurs in China

Ferkat Jawdat, a Uighur-American software engineer came to the US in 2011 along with his siblings to reunite with his father who had gone to the US in 2006. His mother, Minaiwaier Tuersun, was denied a Chinese passport but was cleared by the US government to visit the US and reunite with her family.

I am just trying to raise my mother's case on the international stage, says Uighur-American activist on his mother's plight in detention

Major retailers must stop sourcing from China’s Xinjiang region due to the “grave risk of forced labour”, a coalition of civil society groups said on Thursday, amid mounting global pressure on Beijing over its treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority.

Brands urged to stop sourcing from China's Xinjiang over forced labour fears

China has an uneasy relationship with the idea of religion. On WION Edit, we discuss how far can the government meddle in the matter of faith? In one of the earlier works of Karl Marx, the ideologue of modern communism, there is a powerful passage.

WION Edit: China's clamp down on religious activities

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