WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is placing 15 individuals and 10 entities under Magnitsky sanctions for their connection to human rights abuses in several countries around the world, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announces. Those sanctioned include the former Xinjiang governor Shohrat Zakir and the current governor Erkin Tuniyaz.
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“Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Uyghur student movement”.
Twenty years ago on this day, December 12, 1985, tens of thousands of Uyghur youth aligned on the snowy Urumqi streets and shouted loud against the colonial regime, seeking freedom, liberty, human rights, and democracy. The Uyghur youth expressed their desire for freedom and their brave and indomitable spirit against the colonialists.
London – A UK-based independent tribunal has ruled, that China has committed genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the western ‘Xinjiang’ region. China’s senior leadership and President Xi Jinping carry primary responsibility for these acts perpetrated against these minorities.
On Wednesday, Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced that Australia would join the US in its diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022 over concerns of the genocidal treatment of Uyghurs, The Guardian reports.
by Uyghur Times Staff The White House announced on Monday that the Biden administration will not be sending any diplomatic representation or officials to the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing. The decision comes in light of China’s severe human rights abuses and atrocities including genocide and crimes […]
WASHINGTON DC – The US will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki announced in today’s daily press briefing.
BELGRADE, SERBIA – On December 3rd, 2021, Uyghur News heard of a threat of deportation of an Uyghur man named Qahar Héytem. While transiting via Belgrade to Europe, the Serbian police detained Mr. Héytemat at Belgrade airport on December 2nd. Mr. Héytem is a resident of Turkey.
Xinjiang government “vows to take legal actions” against Dr. Adrian Zenz after his latest report. “The relevant parties will take legal action against the pseudo-scholar, said the local government, Dr. Adrian Zenz tweets.
The Chinese province of Henan is building a surveillance system with face-scanning technology that can detect journalists and other people of interest, surveillance analysts IPVM reports. Chinese firm Neusoft, backed by Huawei cloud services, has won a tender to build the system. It will operate like traffic lights and divide people into different categories: green, yellow, and red. Anyone labeled red would ring an alarm.
Previously unpublished documents that link the crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang to the top Chinese leadership have been uploaded online, The Guardian reports.