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  • Despite claims of shortages, US President Donald Trump maintains that the country has "massive amounts of munitions" and expects the Iran war will wrap up "pretty soon."
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  • After the Supreme Court's decision to strike down his last executive order that sought to abolish birthright citizenship, President Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday in an attempt to deny citizenship to some American-born children.
  • Farhad N. was given a life sentence by a German court for murder and attempted murder in connection with the deadly car attack on a Verdi trade union demonstration in Munich in February 2025.
  • In a Syrian town with Druze and Christian communities near the capital Damascus, a bomb planted on a minibus exploded on Thursday, leaving at least two dead and thirteen injured.

Tag: China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)

March 18, 2021

EU to Slap Sanctions on China...

European Union members have agreed to impose sanctions on four Chinese officials and one entity over Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), European diplomats were quoted as saying Wednesday

March 16, 2021

Xinjiang Authorities Detain Head of Township...

Authorities in in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained the head of a township education committee, according to officials in his home county of Toksun (in Chinese, Tuokexun) in the region’s Turpan (Tulufan) prefecture

March 9, 2021

Global Lawmakers Call Out China For...

Lawmakers from the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) issued a statement Monday recognizing the plight of women in the region, where authorities are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in a vast network of internment camps since early 2017.

March 5, 2021

Uyghur Textile Entrepreneur Dies Days After...

A Uyghur textile trader and entrepreneur has died days after being freed from an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where he lost more than 100 pounds of weight over his three years in detention, according to sources

March 3, 2021

Australia, Turkey to Join Nations Debating...

Australia and Turkey are moving to investigate whether to label human rights violations in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) as genocide, following a similar designation by the White House and recent parliamentary motions in Canada and the Netherlands

February 27, 2021

UN Rights Chief Says Abuses in...

The United Nations lead official for human rights called on Friday for a full and independent investigation of human rights abuses in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, where reports say over a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities have been held in a vast network of internment camps since 2017

February 25, 2021

Uyghur Student Confirmed Jailed After Forced...

A young Uyghur man has been confirmed imprisoned after being forced to return to northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) for the “crime” of having studied abroad in Egypt, according to official sources

February 24, 2021

Uyghur Meshrep Detainee Handed 17 Years...

A Uyghur engineer with the Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture branch of a state-run telecom company in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been sentenced to a lengthy jail term for having rejected local family planning policies, according to sources

February 23, 2021

Canadian Lawmakers Approve Motion Labeling Xinjiang...

Canada’s House of Commons on Monday passed a motion designating rights abuses in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) as genocide, making it the second nation to do so following the U.S. last month

February 20, 2021

‘Push Corporations to be More Transparent...

Amelia Pang is an award-winning investigative journalist of mixed Chinese and Uyghur descent who was born and raised in the U.S. Although her maternal grandmother was raised according to Uyghur traditions in the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), her mother learned little of her Uyghur heritage or language due to forced assimilation policies that promoted Mandarin Chinese education and the study of majority Han Chinese culture

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