The daughter of Ilham Tohti, a Uighur intellectual who has been imprisoned in China, has said she does not know if her father is alive. Jewher Ilham made the remark after accepting a top European human rights prize on behalf of her father. Ilham Tohti was jailed for life on separatism charges in 2014. China has provoked an international outcry its treatment of Uighurs, an indigenous Muslim minority, in the ...

  CNN Hong Kong (CNN)The US House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday demanding a tougher response from the Trump administration over reports of mass detention centers run by the Chinese government in Xinjiang. The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which still needs to gain approval from the US Senate, calls for concrete measures to be taken against Beijing over allegations that up to two million Mu ...

Brussels’ hemicycle passed an urgent resolution on human rights and religious freedom in the land of the Red Dragon. We applaud it while noting a few faults. Marco Respinti Finally, the European Union (EU) gets things rolling. On April 18, during its plenary session, the European Parliament (EP) approved an urgent resolution requesting attention on the awful situation of human rights in China and requiring ...

Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the European Parliament urgency debate on China, notably the situation of ethnic and religious minorities Strasbourg, 18/04/2019 - 11:46, UNIQUE ID: 190418_5 Thank you, Mr President, As some of you [Members of the European Parliament] have mentioned, today we do have, compared to five years ago, a new strategy with China, but most importantl ...

By Kady O'Malley. Published on Apr 4, 2019 As the House heads into the final day of the budget debate, it appears that Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre may end up being the only MP to put his thoughts on the government’s fiscal fortitude on the permanent parliamentary record. At press time, he’s scheduled to resume his speech this morning, and unless he chooses to wrap it up before time runs out ...