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
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 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