Mesut Özil is facing a permanent blacklisting in China to such an extent that TV commentators are deliberately not mentioning his name during broadcasts of Arsenal matches. Özil played a starring role in Arsenal’s 2-0 victory over Manchester United last week but the commentators on the PPTV streaming channel did not mention his name once, either when running through the team line-ups or when the 31-year-old ...

By Edward Wong  , Jan. 9, 2020 WASHINGTON — When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a news conference this week in which he justified President Trump’s order to kill Iran’s most powerful general, he also took the opportunity to criticize China twice: for its mass detentions of Muslims and for its repressive policies in Hong Kong. China hit back immediately. “It must be pointed out that the wars staged by t ...

A demonstrator joins members of the Uighur community and sympathisers at a protest on the Dam square in the Netherlands on Dec 29, 2019.PHOTO: EPA-EFE By Reuters     Jan. 9, 2020 WASHINGTON — A U.S. congressional report called for sanctions against China over human rights abuses, and for U.S. officials to keep rights concerns in mind during dealings with Beijing, including trade negotiations. The annual hum ...

AFP-JIJI WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers called Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions over rights abuses in China as they released a report describing “crimes against humanity” against the Uighur minority. In a wide-ranging annual report, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which tracks human rights in the Asian power, voiced alarm at Beijing’s incarceration of m ...

Workers in uniform at a labor compound in eastern Xinjiang, China, in 2017. By Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, Dec. 30, 2019 KASHGAR, China — The order from Chinese officials was blunt and urgent. Villagers from Muslim minorities should be pushed into jobs, willing or not. Quotas would be set and families penalized if they refused to go along. “Make people who are hard to employ renounce their selfish ideas ...