Uighurs

China releases details of female Uighurs’ fertility, sexual relations and STDs

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China has released explicit details about female Uighurs’ fertility, sexual relations and STDs in a campaign to push back against global pressure over their treatment of the minority group. As allegations of human rights violations in Xinjiang mount, with a growing number of Western lawmakers accusing China of genocide, Beijing is focusing on discrediting the … Read more

More than half a million of Uighurs are forced to hand-pick cotton in China’s Xinjiang, report says

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More than half a million of Uighur labourers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced into picking cotton by hand through a coercive state labour scheme, a report has said. At least 570,000 people in Xinjiang’s three majority-Uighur regions were sent to pick cotton as part of a state-run coercive labour transfer scheme in 2018, … Read more