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On Monday, September 23, the European Union and human rights groups renewed calls for the release of Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uyghur scholar sentenced to life in prison in 2014 on separatism charges, RFA reported yesterday. Tohti, now 54, advocated…

Recent documents presented at the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference (PIFI) indicate that Chinese officials attempted to sway Canadian MPs against a 2021 motion condemning the genocide of Uyghurs, National Post revealed yesterday. The motion passed unanimously, but post-vote, the…

As the 10th anniversary of Ilham Tohti’s life sentence approaches, Amnesty International is calling on the international community to increase diplomatic efforts for his release, the organization’s website reported.  Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment on September 23, 2014, after…

Typhoon Bebinca made landfall in Shanghai on Monday, disrupting life in the city as state media reported it could be the most powerful storm to hit the financial hub in 75 years, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. The typhoon, the 13th…

China has announced its first increase in the retirement age since the 1950s as it grapples with an aging population and a shrinking pension budget, the BBC reported on Friday. Approved by the country’s top legislative body, the changes will…

Uyghur exiles living in the United States are experiencing an alarming increase in transnational repression from the Chinese government, which reportedly uses relatives still in Xinjiang to threaten them into silence, VOA reported recently. In the article, activists, including Elfidar…

Super Typhoon Yagi, the strongest storm to hit Hainan Island in a decade, made landfall in Wenchang city with wind speeds of 223 km/h (138 mph). Around 400,000 people were evacuated before the storm, with transportation services halted and schools…

The Chinese government’s systematic campaign against the Uyghur population has intensified over the past decade, with state-run boarding schools in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) serving as tools of cultural genocide. According to an article published by Bitter Winter on September 5,…

The United States has urged China to take immediate action to stop the ongoing repression of Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang, the Siasat Daily reported yesterday. In a statement on Friday, marking the second anniversary…

A recent analysis from Yale University highlights the staggering impact of the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang, estimating a cumulative 4.4 million years of prison sentences, nationalreview.com published yesterday. The report from Yale’s…