Tag: Muslim Uyghurs

US Sanctions Sought Against Present, Past Members of CCP National Congress

All present and former members of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) National Congress, as well as all of their adult relatives, would be barred from entering the United States or owning property in the country under new sanctions sought by 19 House Republicans. “This collection of individuals are some of the world’s worst human rights…


Japan Parliament Passes Uyghur Resolution But Avoids Naming China

Japan’s parliament passed a resolution on Tuesday expressing concern about alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Friday, while remaining circumspect in its criticism of China. The resolution was passed by the lower chamber, with approval from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and some opposition parties….


Research Paper Taken Down for Sourcing Non-Consensual DNA Samples From Tibetans and Uyghurs

A respected science journal has withdrawn a study that collected DNA samples from Tibetans and Uyghurs without informed consent. It comes against the backdrop of China’s increasing crackdown on ethnic minorities in Tibet and the northwestern region of Xinjiang, using tactics such as cultural and religious suppression, mass internment, forced labor, and the separation of…


To Protest CCP Abuses, US Athletes Should Not Participate in Beijing Winter Olympics: Reggie Littlejohn

The president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers and co-founder of the genocidegames.org taskforce, Reggie Littlejohn, said she wants the U.S. Olympic Committee to urge U.S. athletes not to attend the 2022 Games in Beijing for their own protection and to stand against the various human rights abuses perpetrated by the CCP. “What’s the Chinese Communist…


The Chinese Communist Party: Profiting From Persecution

Commentary In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has waged a campaign of persecution to eradicate the cultural and religious identity of Muslim Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Under the patently false pretext of “eliminating terrorism,” the CCP has forced Uyghurs into a torturous, inhumane system of state sponsored slavery and…


Top CCP Official Responds to Boycott Xinjiang Cotton Campaign

Xinjiang’s Communist Party secretary Chen Quanguo for the first time on April 2 openly responded to the campaign to boycott Xinjiang cotton, which had been gaining traction among big corporations. Last year, the United States imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials over serious human rights abuses in Xinjiang—a remote region in northwest China. As the…


Airbnb Asked to Drop Olympic Ties Over China Rights Issues

Airbnb Inc. is being asked to drop its sponsorship connections to next year’s Beijing’s Winter Olympics by a coalition of 150 human-rights campaigners. The coalition is headed by groups that oppose rights violations in China including the detention of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. Airbnb is one of the International Olympic Committee’s leading 15 sponsors….


Two Liberal MPs Say They Will Vote to Recognize Uyghur Oppression as Genocide

Two Liberal MPs say they will be voting in favour of a motion put forward by the Conservatives to declare Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide.  In the House of Commons on Feb. 18, Liberal MP John McKay expressed his support for the motion. He said the Chinese regime’s…


Two Liberal MPs Say They Will Vote to Recognize Uyghur Oppression a Genocide

Two Liberal MPs say they will be voting in favour of a motion put forward by the Conservatives to declare Beijing’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide.  In the House of Commons on Feb. 18, Liberal MP John McKay expressed his support for the motion. He said the Chinese regime’s…


Biden Says CCP Oppression of Uyghurs is Genocide, Agrees with Trump Admin’s Designation

President Joe Biden believes the Chinese regime has committed “genocide” and “crimes against humanity” against Uyghur Muslims in the region of Xinjiang—a designation made by the Trump administration a day before the presidential inauguration. “President Biden has called the oppression of the Uighurs a genocide, and he stands against it in the strongest possible terms,”…