In a rare event, this year, the Chinese New Year coincides with the advent of the holy month of Ramadan . The second day of the Chinese New Year, according to the lunar calendar, 18 February, falls...
Radio Free Asia (RFA) has resumed its broadcasts in Mandarin, Tibetan, and Uyghur. President and CEO Bay Fang announced on LinkedIn on Wednesday that the services were back after US President Donald Trump cut off government funding last year....
Around the world, Muslims rejoice with anticipation and excitement for the blessed month. They get to wake up before dawn with lights on for suhoor, set “Ramadan goals,” deepen their relationship with the Qur’an, stand shoulder-to-shoulder in taraweeh prayers, retreat...
Beijing accused the United States on Wednesday of “interfering in China’s internal affairs”, after Washington announced an envoy to promote Tibetans’ rights. US Secretary of State Marco. File Photo: ASEAN. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Tuesday that...
The United States is ready to carry out low-yield nuclear tests to match alleged secret explosions by China and Russia, ending a decades-old moratorium, a senior official said Tuesday. Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and US President Donald Trump. File...
Fifteen years ago, Beijing’s Liangma riverbanks would have been smog-choked and deserted in winter, but these days they are dotted with families and exercising pensioners most mornings. Pedestrians walk along an overpass as traffic snarls in Beijing on February 11,...
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Reuters photo The recent wave of coordinated attacks by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) across more than 10 cities in the troubled province of Balochistan, which takes up 44 percent of the...
Why did emissions surge during zero-Covid? Shift to energy-intensive industry Missing the forest for the trees What are “strategic emerging industries”? Will rapid energy-demand growth continue? Recommended Clean energy: was 2023 an anomaly, or the new normal? Installing a wind turbine in Xinjiang, China’s north-west, in 2023....
Police officers salute at the outer entrance of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 23, 2021. A person stands in a tower on the perimeter of the Number 3 Detention Center...
The main gate of a Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps building in Manas County, northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 17, 2021. (Charlie Qi via Wikipedia) People visit the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps booth during the 2021 China...
Police officers stand at the outer entrance of Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, April 23, 2021. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) A farmer shows newly harvested red dates in Hotan county in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, Nov....
Xinjiang Communist Party Secretary Ma Xingrui attends the Xinjiang delegation meeting on the sidelines of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 7, 2024. (Florence Lo/Reuters) People walk past a disused mosque in Kashgar...
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, welcomes the journalist at the Palais Wilson on October 17, 2022. Photo: Violaine Martin/Un Geneva, via Flickr CC2.0. Credit: Violaine Martin Michelle Bachelet. File photo: UN Women. ‘Baseless allegations’ — United Nations Human Rights Council...
Herdsmen attend a horse race to welcome the upcoming Lunar New Year in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang region, Jan. 27, 2024. (Liu Xin/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) People visit a fair for the upcoming Lunar New Year in...
Economic drivers of diversification H.Seidl Tue, 01/02/2024 - 16:30 picture alliance / CFOTO Comment Jan 17, 2024 4 min read Economic drivers of diversification Foreign direct investments to China are negative for the first time in decades Companies are pursuing various diversification strategies ...
Police officers stand at the outer entrance of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang region, April 23, 2021. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) Auxiliary police and police officers patrol the snow-covered border region in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture...
File photo: StudioIncendo. September 2023 The Court of Appeal heard the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) and the RTHK Staff Union’s joint appeal against the city’s communications regulator’s decision to issue a warning over RTHK’s satirical programme Headliner. August 2023 US photojournalist Matthew Connors, who...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on a billboard with the slogan, "Administer Xinjiang according to law, unite and stabilize the territory, culturally moisturize the territory, enrich the people and rejuvenate the territory, and build the territory for a long...
Delegates should conduct Xinjiang visits only if they can speak freely with Uyghurs without Chinese government influence, says Jewher Ilham, forced labor project coordinator at the Worker Rights Consortium. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP file photo Ma Xingrui, Xinjiang’s Communist Party secretary, denied...
Dya-Eddine Bamakhrama, head of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation delegation, praised 'the prosperity and development of China’s Xinjiang under good governance' during the visit. Credit: Screenshot from AFP file video The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has a moral duty to express...
Abdulkerim Zikrullah Idris (bottom, R) is seen with his wife, Habibehan Idris, son Abdulhakim Idris (top, L), Abdulhakim’s two children and a friend in Munich, Germany, in 2001. Credit: Courtesy photo The last photo of Abdulkerim Zikrullah Idris, taken in 2014...
File photo: StudioIncendo. June 2023 A Hong Kong press group urged the city’s police to provide an explanation after its former chairperson was led away by officers while she was reporting on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. The Hong Kong government...
Police in China's Shanghai province are building a huge surveillance system which is able to alert and notify authorities when foreign journalists travel to Xinjiang province and when Uyghurs venture outside that area. Back in March this year, authorities in...
File photo: StudioIncendo. May 2023 The government watchdog agreed to investigate HKFP’s complaint against the Information Services Department over their handling of a press event which saw several government-registered outlets barred from attendance without explanation. Blocking pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s overseas counsel...
Genocide against the Uyghur Muslims continues to worsen as the world looks on, despite its mass atrocities that have come into stark focus over the past five years. Thousands of Uyghur children have been abandoned without parents and family, as...
A perimeter fence surrounds what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in Dabancheng in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. Speaking about the centers, a Chinese official told the CESCR committee, 'They have the security measures that are necessary...
The fate of 18 miners – mostly Uyghurs – trapped in a collapsed gold mine in China’s far-western Xinjiang province remained uncertain, officials said, implying that rescuers have failed to pull any of them out alive nearly two weeks after...
U.K.-based rights activist Rahima Mahmut has long been a vocal critic of the Chinese government, taking aim at the mass incarceration, surveillance and persecution of the Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang and countering Beijing's official propaganda from overseas. She has recently...
Most of the 18 miners trapped underground in a collapsed gold mine in China’s far-western Xinjiang region have been identified as Uyghur amid ongoing rescue operations five days after the disaster occurred, sources in the region told Radio Free Asia...
A renowned Uyghur writer and poet in poor health when released from prison died on Dec. 18 because he could not obtain food or medical treatment amid a strict coronavirus lockdown, according to social media posts and information from relevant...
A Uyghur Muslim preacher serving a five-year sentence in China’s far-western Xinjiang region for making a religious pilgrimage abroad died of liver cancer in prison in February, according to a police officer who works in the district where the preacher...
Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region have detained a well-known Uyghur nutritionist for messages he posted on social media, according to Sweden-based siblings and police in the region’s capital Urumqi. Behtiyar Sadir, 46, a national-level health coach and member of Xinjiang’s...
Some 55 Uyghur organizations have called on world leaders to recognize Dec. 9 as Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, marking the day a year ago that an independent U.K.-based Uyghur Tribunal announced its findings that China committed genocide against Uyghurs and...
More than 50 Uyghur groups on Thursday urged heads of states and leaders of international organizations meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in Saudi Arabia to condemn China’s atrocity crimes against the Uyghurs and end the genocide in...
Hikvision, a Chinese state-owned surveillance tech company, advertised a dangerous new feature which includes using facial recognition technology to identify sensitive information like gender, race, and ethnicity. Hikvision and Dahua Technology have been found to be providing the technological infrastructure which...
The victims who died in last week’s apartment block fire in Urumqi – which triggered protests across China against harsh anti-virus restrictions – were all Uyghurs, two officials confirmed to Radio Free Asia. At least 10 people perished in the Nov....
On Nov. 24, a fire tore through a residential building in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s capital Urumqi, killing at least 10 people. Citizen videos that circulated on the Internet showed screaming residents of the burning apartment demanding authorities open...
Surveillance products by Chinese state-owned company, Hikvision are being used to monitor an ethnic minority community, Uyghur Muslims, in “re-education” camps in the Xinjiang region. Shockingly, the same firm is supplying at least 11 police forces in the UK, entrusting...
The United States on Monday called on the UN Human Rights Council to organise a debate on rights violations in China’s Xinjiang region, following a report warning of possible crimes against humanity. Washington presented the first-ever draft resolution to the...
On Wednesday, the European Commission officially released its proposal for banning products made with forced labor from entering EU markets. While the proposed regulation does not single out a specific country, it is widely seen as a response to mounting...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. @Everyone Notice from the Public Security Internet Monitoring Department: Effective immediately, no group is to pass on any content (including video, audio, or...
With about ten minutes to midnight on her last day as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet finally released her long-overdue report on Xinjiang. The 46-page report concluded that the Chinese government has committed “serious human rights violations”...
The Department for Work and Pensions announced they will be making changes to their security systems by removing security cameras manufactured by Hikvision, a Chinese technology company that has been under heavy scrutiny by UK authorities following their participation in...
The Uyghur Braille alphabet in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of Harris Mowbray. The Braille alphabet. Credit Wikimedia Commons Safeguarding the Uyghur language US university student Harris Mowbray in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of Harris Mobray In 2000, China banned the use of...
A government installed facial recognition device to grant residents access to their compound is seen on a gate in Urumqi, capital of northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, May 7, 2021. Credit: Reuters Personnel inspect a surveillance drone on the runway...
French street artist Mahn Kloix paints a mural depicting Tursunay Ziawudun, a former Uyghur detainee who has left China and spoken publicly about her experience in an internment camp, in the southern French port city of Marseille, October 2021. Credit:...
Nury Turkel (3rd from L), vice chair of the US Committee on International Religious Freedom, participates in a panel discussion on China's use of artificial intelligence and high tech in its campaign against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, at the International Religious...
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