Member States Should Seek International Inquiry into Widescale Abuses (Geneva) – China used pressure and warnings to stifle criticism of its poor human rights record throughout the United Nations Human Rights Council session that concluded on March 22, 2019, in Geneva, Human Rights Watch said today. China provided no credible response to concerns raised about the government’s rights violations, notably the ...

by Subhash Kak Most people do not know that until about a thousand years ago, the Tarim Basin (northwest of Tibet, which is the part of Xinjiang below the Tian Shin Mountains) was Indic in culture and it was a thriving part of the Sanskritic world; its people spoke the Gāndhārī language which many see as descended from Vedic Sanskrit, and Khotanese Saka, which is also closely related to Sanskrit. Perhaps th ...

A Han official’s photo with his Uyghur homestay family taken after the signing of “the homestay card” 03/29/2019 XIANG YI The CCP’s high-pressure control on the Uyghurs also creates heavy stress for ethnic Han public officials there. One committed suicide. As Bitter Winter previously reported, since the beginning of 2018, CCP authorities have been implementing the so-called “home-stay” program in Xinjiang. ...

By Michelle Kosinski and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, March 29, 2019 (CNN) State Department sources say they know American residents -- either US citizens or people with legal status in the United States -- are being held in detention camps in Xinjiang, China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tu5JTcRFkg When asked if there were many, one of the sources said, "No, a few." They were unable to disclose more details ...

Human Rights Watch urges New Zealand's prime minister to defend rights of Uyghur Muslims in China Riyaz ul Khaliq | 29.03.2019  |  ANKARA A rights group has urged New Zealand's prime minister to call on China to respect the human rights of ethnic Uyghur Muslims living in the country's Xinjiang province. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in an open letter to Jacinda Ardern has asked her to express concern ...