Previously unpublished documents that link the crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang to the top Chinese leadership have been uploaded online, The Guardian reports.
Month: November 2021
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Police in Almaty in Kazakhstan have detained six protesters outside the Chinese Consulate. The protestors had demanded the release of their relatives whom China had arbitrarily detained, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reports.
Major UK cities use the same surveillance technology as the Chinese Government uses in Uyghur internment camps in Xinjiang, The Mail on Sunday reports. The US has black-listed both Hikvision and Dahua over links to human rights abuses. The UK Government, however, has not sanctioned the companies.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has skipped the Greek letters “nu” and “xi” in naming its new COVID-19 variant, which it has now called the Omicron variant, Fox News reports.
Hu Binchen, the deputy director-general for the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, has been elected to serve on Interpol Executive Committee, Interpol said on its official Twitter account.
The Chinese police officer will serve a three-year term in the Executive Committee of Interpol. It has thirteen members.
This week Quebec Senator Leo Housakos will introduce a bill to boycott Beijing Olympics and ban all imports from Xinjiang, he says on his official Twitter account.
Actress and human rights advocate, Mia Farrow, has used her Twitter platform to speak against the Uyghur genocide.
On Saturday 27th November at 1300 GMT, the Uyghur Tribunal will hold a third virtual hearing to introduce new evidence from expert witnesses Professor Ton Zwaan and Dr. Adrain Zenz, the Uyghur Tribunal website says.
The Uyghur Tribunal is an independent people’s court of justice launched in Great Britain in September 2020. It examines China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur people and evaluates whether the violations constitute genocide under the Genocide Convention. The tribunal began its first series of hearings in June 2021, and the second set in September 2021.
Anwer Ablimit, a renowned Uyghur musician, used to work for an oil extraction unit in Karamay. His nephew in exile lost contact with him in 2017. In 2019 he heard that Ablimit had been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Chinese government. The nephew does not know his whereabouts.
Eastern European states of the former Communist block do not react well to the Chinese subversion and even coercion in Europe. Countries like Lithuania are at the forefront of standing firm against Beijing. The resistance does not come without a price. After the Lithuanian parliament passed a resolution in May this year […]