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    UN rights chief begins landmark China trip from Monday

    24 May 2022

    After years of requesting "meaningful and unfettered" access to far-western Xinjiang, Michelle Bachelet will finally stage a six-day mission to China starting Monday, her office said.

    China says it will continue ‘training’ Xinjiang people

    09 Dec 2019

    China on Monday defended its vast network of re-education camps in Xinjiang and said it would continue “training” residents, following explosive government document leaks detailing surveillance and control of the region’s Uighur population.

    Places of worship hit by bid to beautify Xinjiang

    14 May 2021

    The Jiaman mosque in the city of Qira, in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, is hidden behind high walls and Communist Party propaganda signs, leaving passersby with no indication that it is home to a religious site. In late April, during the holy month

    6.4 magnitude quake strikes China’s Xinjiang region

    20 Jan 2020

    A strong earthquake damaged buildings and injured at least one person seriously in a rural part of China's far west Xinjiang region, the government said on Monday.

    UK calls on China to allow access to Xinjiang after sanctions

    26 Mar 2021

    “It speaks volumes that, while the UK joins the international community in sanctioning those responsible for human rights abuses, the Chinese government sanctions its critics,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement.

    China sanctions UK entities, individuals for Xinjiang ‘lies’

    26 Mar 2021

    The Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement it sanctioned four entities and nine individuals, including lawmakers such as former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith and the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission that “maliciously spread lies and disinformation.”

    China reports surge of asymptomatic coronavirus cases in Xinjiang

    26 Oct 2020

    China reported the highest number of asymptomatic novel coronavirus infections in nearly seven months on Monday following the discovery of a cluster of cases linked to a garment factory in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

    Thousands of mosques in Xinjiang demolished in recent years: Report

    25 Sep 2020

    Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said on Friday, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region.

    China foreign ministry denies think-tank claims of Xinjiang mosque destruction

    26 Sep 2020

    China’s foreign ministry denied claims from an Australian think-tank that it had destroyed thousands of mosques in its western Xinjiang region, and said there are over 24,000 mosques there, “more mosques per capita than many Muslim countries.”

    US concerned after UN human rights chief visits China

    29 May 2022

    Michelle Bachelet's long-planned trip this week took her to the far-western Xinjiang region, where the United States has labeled China's detention of a million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities a "genocide."

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