Defiant Johnson tells China: ‘I stand behind sanctioned MPs’
Politicians facing Beijing ban for views on Uighurs are welcomed to Rose GardenBoris Johnson has made an orchestrated gesture of defiance to Beijing, and of...
China sanctions UK businesses, MPs and lawyers in Xinjiang row
Former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith says he will wear the retaliation like a ‘badge of honour’ China has sanctioned organisations and individuals in...
EU and UK impose sanctions on Chinese officials over Xinjiang
It is the first time for three decades either institution has punished China for human rights abusesThe EU and the UK have both crossed a...
China breaching every act in genocide convention, says legal report on Uighurs
Thinktank publishes first non-governmental legal examination of China’s actions in XinjiangThe Chinese government has breached every single article of the UN genocide convention in its...
Chinese labour schemes aimed to cut Uighur population density – report
Accidental publication adds to growing body of evidence of Beijing’s efforts to persecute minorityChinese labour programmes in Xinjiang are designed at least partly to reduce...
Biden raises Taiwan and human rights with Xi Jinping in first phone call
The conversation came hours after the US president announced a new Pentagon taskforce on China Joe Biden has affirmed the US’s tough line on China’s...
US ‘deeply disturbed’ by reports of systematic rape in China’s Xinjiang camps
State department says ‘atrocities’ against detained Uighur and Muslim women in region must be ‘met with serious consequences’The United States government is “deeply disturbed” by...
‘Being young’ leads to detention in China’s Xinjiang region
Chinese authorities using a data-driven ‘predictive policing’ network to intern people from Muslim minoritiesA rare leak of a prisoner list from a Chinese internment camp...