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    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Waiting To Be Arrested At Night — how to confront authoritarian power

      Poet Tahir Hamut Izgil has written a compelling and elegant first-person account of resisting China’s crackdown on Islam

      The board in the Atajurt office with photos and information of Kazakhs detained in Chinese detention camps
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      UK politics
      British MPs warn Israel anti-boycott law could also stifle criticism of China

      Opponents fear bill to stop public bodies adopting ‘own foreign policy’ will not apply exclusively to any state

      A demonstrator holds a picture of her Uyghur relatives during a march in London
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      Volkswagen AG
      Volkswagen plans external audit of controversial plant in Xinjiang

      German carmaker responds to accusations it is linked to forced labour

      The assembly line at the Xinjiang car plant
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Human rights
      Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes hit by Xinjiang forced labour complaint

      Carmakers are the target of one the first cases brought under Germany’s new supply chain law

      Shanghai Volkswagen, a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor
    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Volkswagen AG
      VW investors demand independent audit of China car plant

      German carmaker faces human rights and climate protesters at turbulent annual meeting

      Protester holds a banner reading ‘We can no longer afford Wolfgang’ at Volkswagen’s annual general meeting
    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      UK foreign policy
      UK presses Beijing over Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang

      Foreign secretary discusses areas of ‘disagreement and co-operation’ with China’s vice-president at pre-coronation meeting

      China’s vice-president Han Zheng, centre,  arrives for a pre-coronation reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by King Charles III
    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      ‘The hand of China reaches here’: how Beijing pushes Uyghurs to spy on each other overseas

      Xinjiang police try to manipulate Turkic Muslims abroad through offers of contact with family or threats to loved ones

      A Uyghur demonstrator in Turkey
    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      RWE AG
      RWE says US ban on imports from Xinjiang threatens solar ambitions

      Germany’s biggest utility warns green energy projects are suffering delays but group supports the US legislation

      RWE headquarters in Germany
    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Yuan Yang
      Muddled engagement with China leaves Xinjiang in the lurch

      Toothless sanctions and empty agreements with Beijing fail to improve human rights in the region

      Uyghur Muslims leave a mosque in Xinjiang. What are the achievable goals for European governments — and if there are no such goals, what can be done?
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      China
      Xinjiang governor cancels Brussels and London visits after outcry

      Meetings with EU and UK officials axed amid protests over treatment of Uyghurs in north-west Chinese region

      Former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Labour peer Helena Kennedy join a protest outside the Foreign Office
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      UK politics
      MPs and rights activists call for sanctions on Xinjiang official visiting UK

      Governor of China’s north-west region set to travel to London and Brussels while his junior officials have been barred

      Erkin Tuniyaz
    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      UK High Court judge finds ‘striking consensus’ of abuses in Xinjiang

      Justice Dove rejects legal challenge brought against UK government over cotton imports but makes damning assessment

      A cotton worker in Xinjiang
    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Chinese business & finance
      MSCI investors at risk of exposure to Xinjiang allegations, report says

      China has come under renewed international pressure over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims

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    • Tuesday, 15 November, 2022
      Energy Source
      The solar industry has a Xinjiang problem Premium content

      Plus, a multibillion-dollar effort to wean Indonesia off coal

      Solar panel cells on a conveyor belt
    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      Uyghur activists sue UK government over Xinjiang cotton imports

      High Court hearing increases pressure on British companies sourcing products from Chinese region

      Muslim workers in a garment factory in Xinjiang, China
    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      UN rights council blocks debate on China’s Xinjiang abuses

      Narrow vote marks diplomatic victory for Beijing after facing accusations of ‘crimes against humanity’

      A Uyghur protester holds a portrait of a relative during a London demonstration calling for the defence of human rights in China
    • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
      Hennes & Mauritz
      H&M ‘cautiously positive’ about China after consumer boycott

      Fashion retailer in recovery mode following furore over forced labour in Xinjiang

      An H&M store in Shanghai
    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      United Nations
      The battle behind the UN report on China’s Xinjiang abuses

      Staff at human rights office pushed former high commissioner to release findings despite resistance from Beijing

      Michelle Bachelet
    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      EU trade
      EU set to ban products made using forced labour

      Move could strain relations with Beijing in light of allegations about working conditions in Xinjiang

      Muslim trainees work in a garment factory at the Hotan Vocational Education and Training Center in Hotan, Xinjiang
    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      Explainer
      ‘Hard to refute’: the UN report on China’s abuses in Xinjiang

      Investigation finds possible ‘crimes against humanity’ committed against Uyghurs, despite Beijing’s objections

      Uyghur girls holding an East Turkestan flag during a protest against China
    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      China committed human rights violations in Xinjiang, UN finds

      Long-anticipated report details credible evidence that Uyghurs were subjected to torture in camps

      Chinese police during an apparent anti-escape drill
    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      Moral Money
      How foreign money is still fuelling abuses in Xinjiang Premium content

      Plus, the world reacts to the ISSB’s draft standards

      A watchtower on a high-security facility in China’s north-western Xinjiang province
    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      Chinese trade
      Companies braced for chaos as Xinjiang import ban starts in US

      Shipments from Chinese region barred under rules in effect from June 21

      A farmer picks cotton on a farm on the outskirts of Hami, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Volkswagen AG
      VW faces union and shareholder calls to examine China human rights allegations

      Unusual intervention by IG Metall and German state of Lower Saxony increases scrutiny of carmaker

      Stephan Weil
    • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      UN envoy ‘unable to assess’ scale of Xinjiang repression

      Michelle Bachelet’s Uyghur human rights investigation has been stymied by Beijing and expediency

      Michelle Bachelet
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