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One of China's highest-ranking Uighur officials and the former head of the troubled northwest Xinjiang region was sentenced Monday to life in prison over graft charges, a court said.

This month’s huge document dump has exposed the truth about China’s concentration camps in Xinjiang province.

It has been a bad week for Beijing, with new support for pro-democracy protesters and detailed evidence of the repression in the north-western region

Chinese tech giants including ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, and Huawei Technologies are working closely with the Communist Party to censor and surveil Uighur Muslims in China’s western region of Xinjiang, according to a new report published Thursday.

ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre has updated the public database that maps the global expansion of key Chinese technology companies.

Chinese technology giant Huawei has provided sophisticated computing and big data services to authorities in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region, where officials have ordered the construction of an extensive network of digital surveillance and control even as large numbers of Muslims remain locked inside prison-like centres for political indoctrination and skills training.

To punish Gulchehra Hoja, a Washington-based journalist for Radio Free Asia, and to stifle her reporting, China’s rulers have imprisoned her brother, harassed her parents and threatened many other relatives back home in Xinjiang, China.

German anthropologist Adrian Zenz was instrumental in uncovering the extent of China's oppression of its Muslim Uighur minority. In an interview, he criticizes Western inaction and warns that China has already begun exporting its tools of oppression.

German anthropologist Adrian Zenz was instrumental in uncovering the extent of China's oppression of its Muslim Uighur minority. In an interview, he criticizes Western inaction and warns that China has already begun exporting its tools of oppression.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the China Cables prove ‘intentional’ violations in the region.

"A few years back people didn't know what Uighur was ... now I see non-Muslim people making these videos and spreading awareness," one TikTok user said.

At the December Executive Board meeting, the IOC should inform Beijing it will no longer be able to cooperate in planning for the 2022 Games

On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls for survivor accounts of sexual and gendered violence in Chinese government concentration camps to be heard.

OnWorld Children’s Day, and the 30^th anniversary of theConvention on the Rights of the Child, UHRP calls for international action urging Chinese officials to reunite Uyghur children with their parents.

UHRP calls on all countries worldwide to stop sales of clothing made in forced-labor factories in the Uyghur Region. A bipartisan group in the U.S. Congress took a noteworthy first step on Tuesday, urging “aggressive action” to ensure strict enforcement of U.S. laws prohibiting forced-labor goods from entering the American marketplace. 

There has been a spike in reported attacks on students and scholars in China over the past year, aimed at “eliminating dissent and restricting the flow of ideas”, according to Scholars at Risk or SAR’s Free to Think 2019 report.

There are considerable differences with regard to forced labor in Uzbekistan and Xinjiang, but there is an underlying corporate responsibility to not engage in human rights abuses

It's one of the most disturbing and elaborate cover-ups every attempted: millions of innocent people "vanishing" in the Chinese night.