U.S. lawmakers have proposed a bipartisan bill to grant priority refugee status to Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities suffering persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. The bipartisan Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act was introduced on June 8 by Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.), Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Don…

The United States has sanctioned five Chinese companies over their alleged role in the repression of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China’s Xinjiang region, the U.S. Commerce Department said on March 28. The companies were accused of implicating human rights abuses in “China’s campaign of repression, arbitrary mass detention and high-technology surveillance against the Uyghur…

The global auto industry continues to remain intricately tied to supply chains in China’s Xinjiang region, thereby becoming part of its human rights abuses, according to a new report. The report, published in December by the Helena Kennedy Center for International Justice at the Sheffield Hallam University, identified 96 mining, processing, or manufacturing firms related…

Protests against the Chinese communist regime for its harsh COVID-19 lockdowns and other severe measures have rocked the nation, with demonstrators from different countries joining in to show support. Protests in China were triggered by the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Urumqi, Xinjiang, who died due to an apartment fire. First responders…

Some 50 countries signed a joint statement at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday urging China to uphold its human rights obligations and release all those “arbitrarily deprived of their liberty” in Xinjiang. The nations—which include the United States, Japan, Britain, Australia, Germany, and Israel—made up the largest group of countries to publicly condemn…

Several Western countries have joined forces to call for a debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council over China’s “crimes against humanity” in the Xinjiang region. The United States, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden presented a draft proposal on Monday calling for a debate on the situation in Xinjiang during the…

Canada’s embassy in Beijing says censors have removed its posts about a United Nations report on human rights in Xinjiang from two Chinese social media platforms. The embassy Tweeted that it shared Canada’s response to this week’s report on Weibo and WeChat, but the posts were taken down. The report published Wednesday says China’s treatment of…

New evidence has emerged pointing to the Chinese regime’s ongoing organ harvesting crimes, Ethan Gutmann, China studies research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 in Washington on June 28-30. Gutmann reported his latest finding: a compound containing a hospital surrounded with a labor camp of 33,000…

The United States banned the import of goods from China’s Xinjiang region on June 21, putting into force the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act signed into law by President Joe Biden last year. Under the rules, all goods produced in whole or in part in Xinjiang will not be allowed to be imported into the…

The United States has banned imports of a key material to make solar panels from a Chinese company as part of a wider effort to protect U.S. supply chains from forced labor inflicted on ethnic Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang region, the White House announced on June 24. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued…