As the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet visits Xinjiang, a report claims data hacked from Xinjiang police shows photographs of the incarceration programme being conducted by the Chinese government.

Hacked police files reveal Uyghur detention camps in China: Report

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

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

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned against benefitting from forced labour in Xinjiang, speaking Wednesday on a visit to Germany, whose iconic automaker Volkswagen operates in the Chinese region.

'Stop benefitting from forced labour': Blinken warns countries against taking advantage of Uighurs

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

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'

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

The United States has announced an import ban on all cotton and tomato products from western China's Xinjiang region on Wednesday over allegations that they are made with forced labour from detained Uighur Muslims.

US bans imports of all cotton, tomato products from China's Xinjiang region over forced labour concerns

In a flat, arid expanse of China’s far west Xinjiang region, a solar technology company welcomed laborers from a rural area 650 miles away, preparing to put them to work at GCL-Poly, the world’s second-largest maker of polysilicon.

Chinese solar companies tied to use of forced labor

China said today that reports of United States blocking imports of cotton it says are harvested with "slave labour" in Xinjiang region is "fake news of so-called forced labour".

US ban of CCP members: Abnormal mindset towards Communist Party, says China

Nike and Coca-Cola are among the major companies and business groups lobbying Congress to weaken a bill that would ban imported goods made with forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region, according to congressional staff members and other people familiar with the matter, as well as lobbying records that show vast spending on the legislation.

Nike and Coca-Cola lobby against Xinjiang forced labor bill

The Uighurs being subjected to atrocities in China's Xinjiang region has once again been highlighted as China's biggest and recent coronavirus outbreak has been linked to the camps in which the community is subjected to forced labour.

COVID-19 outbreak in China shows ties with forced labour in Xinjiang

When Bikamal Kaken's husband vanished during a 2017 visit to Xinjiang in northwestern China, she had good reason to believe he would not be returning home to Kazakhstan anytime soon.

Kazakhs despair for relatives missing in Xinjiang

Beijing has confirmed to United Nations a death of an Uyghur Muslim. The man's family has been long alleging that he was held in Xinjiang internment camp, as per the Guardian.

China formally admits death of Uyghur man held in Xinjiang camp

The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to force companies to disclose products that come from China's Xinjiang region, in a new bid to stop what lawmakers say is widespread forced labor in the restive area.

US passes bill requiring firms to disclose Xinjiang products

An Australian think tank, on Friday, has accused China of illegally demolishing thousands of mosques in the Xinjiang province. The area has come to light for its inhumane treatment in the migrant camps and the widespread defiance of the human rights.

Nearly 16,000 mosques destroyed in Xinjiang by China: Australian think tank

An Australian institute has claimed China has constructed about 400 internment camps in Xinjiang region, with dozens of such facilities continuing for the last two years.

China constructed 400 internment camps in Xinjiang: Study

Swedish clothing brand H&M has put a stop to its relationship with their Chinese yarn producer following accusations of China indulging in "forced labour". H&M distanced itself from the Chinese producer after the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) published a report claiming the fashion giant was one of the biggest beneficiaries from the forced labour.

H&M ends ties with Chinese yarn supplier due to accusations of 'forced labour'

As the diplomatic relationship between China and the US are taking a downward fall, the trade deals between the two nations are also getting affected. After banning several Chinese companies from operating in the US, now the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has decided to to block imports of cotton and tomato products from western China's Xinjiang region.

US election 2020: Trump administration to ban imports from China over forced labour

Chinese-owned app TikTok has admitted it briefly removed a viral video that condemned Beijing's crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang and apologised to the US teen who posted the clip.

TikTok apologises to US teen for removing viral eyelash curling video

Chinese officials on Tuesday said "most" individuals held in re-education camps in its northwest Xinjiang region have left the centres and found jobs -- though they did not provide any figures.

China says 'most' inmates in Xinjiang camps are out

The United States said Monday it had lost hope for human rights progress in China 30 years after the crackdown on Tiananmen Square as Beijing, in rare official comments on the bloodshed, insisted it had "immunized" itself against turmoil.

Post-Tiananmen, Chinese citizens subjected to new wave of abuses: US

A Chinese official on Tuesday rejected international criticism of internment camps in the restive Xinjiang region, calling them job training centres that will "gradually disappear" if "one-day society no longer needs it".

Chinese official rejects criticism over Xinjiang Muslim camps; says it will 'gradually' disappear

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