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AlJazeera. 21 June 2021

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UN human rights chief Michele Bachelet has said she hopes to agree terms for a visit this year to China, including its Xinjiang region, to look into reports of serious violations against the Uighur minority.

“I continue to discuss with China modalities for a visit, including meaningful access, to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” Bachelet said on Monday, addressing the opening of a Human Rights Council session in Geneva.

BBC. 22 June 2021

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Over the past two years, the Chinese authorities have repeatedly promised to help trace any children reported to be missing in Xinjiang, to prove that they haven’t been forcibly separated from their parents. Those promises have not been met, reports John Sudworth.

RFA. 17 June 2021

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The Uyghur founder of a grocery store chain with more than 500 food stores and 200 product lines throughout China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was sentenced in May to more than 17 years in prison for his alleged “suspicious” relations with Turkey, following a three-year investigation, sources outside and inside the region told RFA.

ABC News. 18 June 2021

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Goods made using forced labour anywhere in the world would be blocked from entering Australia under a series of measures recommended by the Senate foreign affairs committee. 

The move is likely to heighten tension in Australia’s relationship with China.

Voa News. 16 June 2021

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The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations reassured Congress Wednesday that she is working to monitor and rein in what she called China’s “malign influence” at the world body. 

“China has been aggressive and coercive in using its power at the United Nations,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. 

Anadolu Agency. 15 June 2021

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The largest Muslim advocacy organization in the US urged Hilton Worldwide Holdings on Tuesday to drop plans to build a hotel on the site of a bulldozed mosque in China’s Xinjiang region.

The call by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) came after a report this week by the British daily The Telegraph that China is building a new commercial center, including an upscale Hilton Hotel, on the site where a mosque was initially demolished.

RFA. 14 June 2021

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A Uyghur entrepreneur in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was jailed for 20 years for “supporting terrorists” for donations he gave to the wives and children of Uyghur prisoners, sources in the region told RFA.

Iminjan Rahmitulla founder of a shopping mall and one of the founders of the famous Grand Bazaar in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) city, was one of four ethnic Uyghur billionaires tried and sentenced in Atush (Atushi) in April, the Norway-based “Uyghuryar” Foundation told RFA.

The Washington Post. 14 June 2021

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CUI TIANKAI, China’s ambassador to the United States, lashed out in May at reports of human rights violations, forced labor, and genocide against the Uyghur and other Muslim minority populations of the Xinjiang region in northwest China. He said the reports are “a downright lie,” “systematic slandering” and “groundless talk.” Mr. Cui also insisted Western critics should butt out of China’s internal affairs.

Politco. 13 June 2021

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Leaders from the G7 wealthy democracies on Sunday admonished China for its human rights abuses and unfair economic practices — creating the strongest collective warning the group has sent Beijing since President Xi Jinping’s rise to power nearly a decade ago. 

William Wang. 13 June 2021

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Over the last few weeks, several family members of overseas Uyghur activists have been given heavy sentences or have died in re-education camps in Xinjiang. While acknowledging the fact that their family members will have to suffer from their activism, these overseas activists said they have the moral obligation to keep speaking out for the Uyghurs.