WASHINGTON, DC – On Thursday, December 23rd, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law legislation that bans imports from Xinjiang, the Uyghur Autonomous in North-Eastern China (that Uyghurs prefer to call Uyghurstan / East Turkistan). It comes over concerns about forced labor, the White House reported. The bill received final congressional approval on December 16th.
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Intel, a US-based semiconductor manufacturer, has landed at odds with Beijing over human rights.
Intel has apologized to its Chinese suppliers for the ban of using components from ‘Xinjiang’. The ban created fiery discussions among Chinese netizens on Weibo, calling for Beijing to punish Intel.
The controversy started after Intel sent a note to its Chinese suppliers saying they should not use Xinjiang-made components in Intel’s chips.
According to the party website, the primary goals of the Drew Pavlou Democratic Alliance are to 1) Strengthen Aussie democracy and fight corruption, 2) Stand up to China and fight corruption, 3) Not to leave one Aussie behind i. e to tackle poverty and homelessness and 4) to support a renewables superpower and economic nation-building.
Huawei has been involved in building technology for labor and re-education camps in ‘Xinjiang’ (Uyghurstan / East Turkistan), according to PowerPoint presentations obtained and translated by The Washington Post. The metadata in the files places them anywhere between 2014 and 2020.
A renowned scientific journal has retracted a paper based on DNA samples from nearly 38,000 men in China. The samples come from Uyghurs and Tibetans, who almost certainly did not give proper consent, the Intercept reports.
Michael Polak, a British lawyer representing the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project, is preparing ‘a universal jurisdiction criminal complaint’ to submit to the criminal courts of Argentina in February, Polak said in a tweet.
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.
“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.