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China insists the camps are training centres

EU agrees on China sanctions over Uighur crackdown

EU member states have agreed to impose sanctions on four Chinese officials and one state-owned entity over Beijing's crackdown on the Uighur minority, European diplomats have said.

World • 17 Mar 21

China said the camps are vocational training centres to counter extremism

China committing genocide against Uighurs - report

The Chinese government's treatment of Uighurs has violated "each and every act" prohibited by the United Nations' Genocide Convention, a report by dozens of international experts has alleged.

World • 10 Mar 21

A facility which is believed to be a camp where mostly Uighur Muslims are detained (File photo)

China carrying out 'genocide' against Uighurs - Pompeo

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that China is committing genocide against the mostly Muslim Uighur people, in a stinging statement on his last full day in office.

World • 19 Jan 21

Beijing said that all Uighur detainees have "graduated" from training centres

Uighurs used in Xinjiang cotton forced labour - report

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority labourers in China's northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced into picking cotton by hand through a coercive state labour scheme, a report has said.

World • 15 Dec 20

The UN says China's 'vocational training centres' are actually detention centres (Pics: Lorenz Huber)

Inside Xinjiang: China cracks down on Uighur population

China has built a vast network of high-security facilities across the north-western province of Xinjiang. It calls them vocational training centres, but the UN says they are detention centres, as Yvonne Murray reports from Kashgar.

World • 01 Oct 20

China has 380 detention centres in Xinjiang - research

China's network of detention centres in the northwest Xinjiang region is much bigger than previously thought and has been expanded in recent years, according to research presented by an Australian think tank.

World • 24 Sep 20

Anti-China protests have taken place in many European cities, such as London, in recent months

EU asks China to let observers visit Xinjiang

The EU has asked China to grant independent observers access to its Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of orchestrating widespread rights abuses against the region's Muslim Uighur population.

World • 14 Sep 20

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC yesterday that it was 'clear that there are gross, egregious human rights abuses going on'

China hits back at Raab accusations about Uighurs

China has hit back at comments by Britain's foreign secretary that accused the Chinese government of "gross" human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities in the northwest region of Xinjiang.

World • 20 Jul 20

The Arsenal player condemned China's crackdown on Muslim minorities in Xinjiang

Chinese media slam 'clownish' Ozil for Uighur comments

Chinese state media has warned that Mesut Ozil's criticism of the country's treatment of its Uighurs will have "serious implications" for Arsenal.

World • 16 Dec 19

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has called on China to close the camps

France calls on China to close Uighur detention camps

France has called on China to end "mass arbitrary detentions" in Xinjiang, where around one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are being held in camps that China calls vocational schools.

World • 27 Nov 19

Leaked documents reveal how China runs Xinjiang camps

Leaked government documents outlining the need to prevent escape and constantly monitor detainees in China's network of internment camps refute Beijing's defence of "vocational education centres" in the region, experts say.

Asia • 25 Nov 19

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