The Conservative leadership race is over. Liz Truss will become the UK’s next prime minister. Truss is reportedly considering a freeze on energy bills and support for businesses in a package that could cost 70 billion pounds ($81 billion). A Tory MP is urging the government to drop tech linked to the Uyghur Muslim repression in […]
President Joe Biden has signed a bill banning imports from China’s Xinjiang region amid concerns over forced labor, the White House announced Thursday. The bill represents another step in U.S. pushback against Beijing’s treatment of China’s Uyghur Muslim population. The Biden administration formally condemned China’s abuse of the Uyghurs as genocide in a report released […]
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing government repression against Uyghur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang region. In a new report released on Nov. 9, the museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide says there is now “a reasonable basis” to believe that previously alleged crimes against humanity versus the […]
The UK’s House of Commons on Thursday unanimously passed a motion declaring Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minorities in China’s Xinjiang region are suffering crimes against humanity and genocide. This makes the UK Parliament the third legislature in the world—following Canada and the Netherlands—to have passed motions calling the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims […]
AMSTERDAM— The Dutch parliament on Thursday passed a non-binding motion saying the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China amounts to genocide, the first such move by a European country. Activists and U.N. rights experts say at least one million Muslims are being detained in camps in the remote western region of Xinjiang. The […]
Reports show that two federal agencies, including Health and Human Services, gave out virus test kits from Chinese genetics company BGI, a company that has worked on projects with the Communist regime’s military, the Peoples’ Liberation Army. According to 60 Minutes, documents show that BGI offered to set up a testing lab in Washington state. A […]
The United States has banned imports of all cotton and tomato products from China’s western Xinjiang region. It’s the widest action yet to crack down on the use of forced labor of Uyghur Muslims. The ban applies to raw fibers, apparel, and textiles made from cotton grown in Xinjiang—which supplies 20 percent of the world’s cotton. […]
U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation on June 17 calling for sanctions against those responsible for repression of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang province, the White House said in a statement.
