By Uyghur Times Staff | June 12, 2025 VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV has made his first Chinese bishop appointment under the Vatican’s contested 2018 agreement with Beijing, naming Joseph Lin Yuntuan as auxiliary bishop of Fuzhou. The move signals continuity with Pope Francis’ controversial policy of engagement with […]
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By Uyghur Times StaffJune 10, 2025, 10:30 a.m. ET In a highly orchestrated propaganda display, Chinese authorities in Urumqi—the capital of the Uyghur homeland—organized a state-sponsored Eid al-Adha performance at the symbolic Xinjiang People’s Theater Square, featuring pro-government songs and staged ethnic dance routines. As part of ongoing efforts to […]
Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong, already imprisoned, has been charged with ‘conspiracy to collude with foreign forces’ under the city’s National Security Law. This additional charge stems from actions alleged to have taken place between July 1 and November 23, 2020, potentially extending his detention beyond his current […]
By Uyghur Times StaffJune 3, 2025 U.S. Senator Marco Rubio marked the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre with a statement on X, honoring those killed and imprisoned during the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal 1989 crackdown. “We remember the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal crackdown 36 years ago in Tiananmen […]
May 28, 202 May 28 (Reuters) – Shein, the online fast-fashion giant, is now shifting its IPO ambitions to Hong Kong after Chinese regulators did not approve its previously proposed London listing, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The Singapore-headquartered company, which moved its base from China in […]
June 3, 2025, 5:33 PM EDT Two Chinese nationals, Yunqing Jian, 34, and Zunyong Liu, 41, were arrested for smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a crop-damaging fungus, into the US. The pair allegedly hid the pathogen for unauthorized research at the University of Michigan. They face charges of conspiracy, smuggling, false statements, […]
By Uyghur Times StaffSaturday, May 18, 2025 | Berlin, Germany Dozens of activists and community leaders gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin last Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of the 11th Panchen Lama, one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most revered figures. The protest, […]
By Tursun UyghurMay 22, 2025 ISTANBUL, TURKEY — In a major blow to China’s global Spy Network , Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has uncovered and dismantled a sophisticated Chinese espionage network operating in Turkish territory. The seven-member spy ring was caught using fake base stations—high-tech surveillance devices known as […]
By Uyghur Times Staff May 12, 2025, 10:30 am CET In a move signaling a possible thaw in strained relations, China has lifted sanctions on five Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and the Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights — a gesture welcomed by EU officials but met with caution […]
By Uyghur Times StaffApril 30, 2025 – Geneva A major investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and partners has exposed how China manipulates UN human rights bodies through fake NGOs—known as GONGOs—while targeting Uyghur activists with cyberattacks and surveillance abroad. The report, Inside China’s Machinery of Repression, […]