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A Chinese official on Monday denied that Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women. The remarks followed an outcry over a tweet by the Chinese Embassy in Washington claiming that government policies had freed women of the Uighur ethnic group from being ‘baby-making machines’. Xu Guixiang, a deputy spokesperson for the … Read more
China’s latest coronavirus outbreak in Xinjiang has been traced back to a garment factory run under a state-led scheme believed to be linked to forced labour. The new wave in the Muslim-dominant province is connected to a small garment factory set up by the government to lift locals out of poverty, according to an investigative … Read more
China has screened an entire region in Xinjiang for the coronavirus after authorities found a single new case in a local outbreak. Health authorities reported the first infection on Saturday, a 17-year-old female garment factory worker in Xinjiang’s north-western region Kashgar, home to ethnic Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims. Another 137 symptomless patients were found yesterday after the local … Read more
China has admitted a slump in the birth rate in the province of Xinjiang where Uighur Muslim women are allegedly sterilised in detention camps. Beijing has previously insisted that Xinjiang’s population is growing in order to rebut claims of genocide against the Uighurs. But Uighurs say they are rounded up for having too many children … Read more
China has lauded the success of its vocational and jobs schemes in the troubled Xinjiang region on Thursday, just days after the US government said they were being operated from facilities run like ‘concentration camps’. On Thursday the Chinese government published a white paper staunchly defending its policy in the Muslim-inhabited region, where it says … Read more
Major retailers must stop sourcing from China’s Xinjiang region due to the ‘grave risk of forced labour’, a coalition of civil society groups said on Thursday, amid mounting global pressure on Beijing over its treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority. More than 180 organisations urged brands from Adidas to Amazon to end sourcing of cotton … Read more