Category: Uyghurs

Chinese-Canadians Say Cabinet Must ‘Stand Up’ to Beijing Even If It Worsens Relationship: Internal Federal Poll

Chinese-Canadians say cabinet ministers must “stand up” to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) even if it will worsen the relationship between the two countries, according to an internal poll conducted for the federal government. “While the Sino-Canadian economic relationship continued to be viewed as important, a number of participants expressed the need to balance this…


Canadian MPs Ask for Expansion of Immigration Program for Uyghurs Facing Persecution in China

MPs have voted unanimously to support a report that calls on the federal government to expand existing immigration measures to accommodate Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims who are fleeing the repression of the Chinese communist regime. The motion, introduced by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, was adopted on Oct. 25. MPs voted 258 to 0 in…


‘Dahua Technology’ CCTVs Found to Be Able to Identify Uyghurs and Tibetan Faces

In Hong Kong and mainland China, CCTV cameras are almost everywhere. The Chinese mainland company “Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. Ltd.” was recently found by the Internet Protocol Video Market (IPVM), a U.S. video surveillance research organization, that four types of its surveillance cameras have the capability to identify race, skin color, and Uyghurs or Tibetan…


Australians Rally to Support Hong Kong Protester Beaten at Manchester Consulate

Protesters rallied at the Chinese consulate in Sydney on Sunday to support the Hong Kong protestor who was beaten at the Chinese Consulate in Manchester. Started by Aus-Hong Kong Connex, an organization founded in April to help Hong Kong migrants new to Australia, the protest was organized to condemn the beating of a Hong Kong…


UN Votes Down Debate on Uyghurs After CCP Lobbying

The United Nations rejected a move to debate China’s ongoing human rights abuses—a rare move that could signal U.S. influence abroad is waning. Leaders from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada called for a debate on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) suppression of the Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang after a U.N. report…


UN Report on Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang Is a Clarion Call to Action

Commentary On Aug. 31, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a highly anticipated report on the ongoing human rights violations and abuses targeting Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang, China. Released within the final minutes of Michelle Bachelet’s term as U.N. High Commissioner for…


Capitol Report (Sept. 7): Senator Sold All Stock Ahead of Pandemic; COVID-19 Shot Could Become Annual

A new report cites anonymous sources who say the FBI found a nuclear document at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. Polling shows President Joe Biden’s recent speech in Pennsylvania is not sitting well with most Americans. However, the president’s overall approval rating has seen a boost. The Biden administration is rolling out a new…


UN Rights Chief ‘Under Tremendous Pressure’ Over Report on China’s Uyghurs

GENEVA—The UN human rights chief said on Thursday that she is still aiming to release a long-anticipated report on the Chinese regime’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in Xinjiang by the end of her four-year mandate next week amid “tremendous pressure” from all sides. But the lack of a firm commitment by former Chilean President…


Human Rights Is the ‘Canary in a Coal Mine’: Nadine Maenza; China’s Human Rights Violations

We take a look at China’s human rights violations. I speak with Katrina Lantos Swett, president of the Lantos Foundation, and Nadine Maenza, president of the International Religious Freedom Secretariat. The two human rights champions discuss the crimes of forced organ harvesting committed by the Chinese Communist Party against prisoners of conscience, the genocide against…


UN Expert Concludes ‘Forced Labor’ Has Taken Place in Xinjiang

BEIJING—It is “reasonable to conclude” that forced labor of members of minority groups has taken place in China’s western Xinjiang region, the UN’s top expert on slavery said in a report released this week. The findings were “based on an independent assessment of available information”, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery,…