Chinese authorities have arrested an artist who painted a portrait of the “Bridge Man” protester Peng Lifa and posted it on Twitter, his wife and a rights group said.
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 other ethnic minorities in its western Xinjiang region
A Chinese activist from the southern province of Guangdong said she was tortured, beaten and treated like a traitor while in prison for protesting a draconian national security law imposed on Hong Kong.
A court in Shanghai has secretly sentenced Shanghai-based housing activist Chen Jianfang to four-and-a-half years in jail, RFA has learned
A wave of anti-lockdown protests in China following a deadly fire in Xinjiang’s regional capital Urumqi are unlikely to grow into a mass pro-democracy movement like that of 1989
Most Uyghurs in Xinjiang have not returned to mosques that Chinese authorities have reopened for limited religious services in response to heavy international criticism of repressive policies targeting the mostly Muslim ethnic group, sources inside and outside the country say.
Uyghur community leaders in Canada asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why his administration has not followed Canada’s parliament in recognizing the situation in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as genocide.
As was typical in other countries during pandemic, families are denied ritual burials for loved ones. By Shohret Hoshur for RFA Uyghur Authorities in Xinjiang collected the bodies of Uyghur residents in the northeastern city of Ghulja who died during a stqrict coronavirus lockdown but did not inform the families of the deceased about whether …
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Fifty nations at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday denounced China for its treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have detained a dissident who openly supported the Oct. 13 “Bridge Man” anti-Xi Jinping banner protest ahead of the 20th party congress in Beijing, the rights website Weiquanwang reported.