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Alibaba "Eliminates" Ethnic Tag That Identifies Uighur Muslims
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sought to distance itself from a face-recognition software feature devised by its cloud computing unit that could help users to identify members of the country's Muslim Uighur minority.
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US Imposes Sanctions On Chinese Company Over Abuse Of Ethnic Minorities
The United States intensified its economic pressure on China's Xinjiang province on Friday, imposing sanctions on a powerful Chinese company and two officials for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities.
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China May Sue Researcher Over Report On Forced Sterilisation Of Uighurs
After several reports of the Chinese government torturing its ethnic minority community surfaced, the authorities are now considering to sue the researchers and think tanks who are behind these revelations.
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China Denies US Accusations Of Uighur Forced Labour
China on Friday dismissed US claims of forced labour involving ethnic Uighurs as "hypocrisy" after Washington warned companies to avoid supply chains linked to human rights abuses in western Xinjiang region.
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Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Others Accused of Using Forced Chinese Labour
Tens of thousands of ethnic Uighurs were moved to work in conditions suggestive of "forced labour" in factories across China supplying 83 global brands, and Australian think tank said in a report released on Sunday.
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China Warns US That Criticism Over Uighurs Not "Helpful" For Trade Talks
The United States and 22 other countries at the United Nations pushed China on Tuesday to stop detaining ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, prompting China's U.N. envoy to warn it was not "helpful" for trade talks between Beijing and Washington.
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Scholars Want Sanctions On China Over Mass Detention Of Muslim Uighurs
Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that a failure to act would signal acceptance of "psychological torture of innocent civilians".
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China Orders People "Poisoned By Extremism, Terrorism" To Confess Crimes
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
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Rights Group Alleges China Using Big Data as Repression Tool
Human Rights Watch says it has found new evidence that authorities in one of China's most repressive regions are sweeping up citizens' personal information.
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ISIS Releases New Video, Threatens Attack On China
ISIS terrorists from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers", according to a terror-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first ISIS threat against Chinese targets.
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China Police Kill 4 Over Xinjiang Attack: Report
Chinese police have shot dead four people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang region on Wednesday, state media said, in the bloodiest such incident in months.
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How Al- Qaeda-Linked Uighur Militants Are Affecting China
The suicide bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan on August 30 highlighted the expanding threat of an ethnic Uighur militant group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement - and the growing Chinese involvement in Syria and Afghanistan to combat it.
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Chinese Uighur Was Tortured Into Confessing Role In Bangkok Bomb: Lawyer
A Chinese ethnic Uighur man arrested in Thailand over a bombing that killed 20 people in Bangkok last year denied today charges of murder or involvement in the attack, retracting an earlier confession his lawyer said he was tortured into making.
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Expelled French Journalist 'Surreal' Ahead Of China Departure
A French reporter forced to leave China by authorities after she criticised government policy in violence-wracked, mainly Muslim Xinjiang, said she had been left with a feeling of "surreality" today ahead of her departure.
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Indonesian Police Arrest 2 More Suspected Terrorists
Indonesian police said they have arrested two more suspected terrorists including a member of China's ethnic Uighur minority who was allegedly preparing to be a suicide bomber.
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Alibaba "Eliminates" Ethnic Tag That Identifies Uighur Muslims
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sought to distance itself from a face-recognition software feature devised by its cloud computing unit that could help users to identify members of the country's Muslim Uighur minority.
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US Imposes Sanctions On Chinese Company Over Abuse Of Ethnic Minorities
The United States intensified its economic pressure on China's Xinjiang province on Friday, imposing sanctions on a powerful Chinese company and two officials for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities.
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China May Sue Researcher Over Report On Forced Sterilisation Of Uighurs
After several reports of the Chinese government torturing its ethnic minority community surfaced, the authorities are now considering to sue the researchers and think tanks who are behind these revelations.
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China Denies US Accusations Of Uighur Forced Labour
China on Friday dismissed US claims of forced labour involving ethnic Uighurs as "hypocrisy" after Washington warned companies to avoid supply chains linked to human rights abuses in western Xinjiang region.
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Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Others Accused of Using Forced Chinese Labour
Tens of thousands of ethnic Uighurs were moved to work in conditions suggestive of "forced labour" in factories across China supplying 83 global brands, and Australian think tank said in a report released on Sunday.
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China Warns US That Criticism Over Uighurs Not "Helpful" For Trade Talks
The United States and 22 other countries at the United Nations pushed China on Tuesday to stop detaining ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, prompting China's U.N. envoy to warn it was not "helpful" for trade talks between Beijing and Washington.
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Scholars Want Sanctions On China Over Mass Detention Of Muslim Uighurs
Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that a failure to act would signal acceptance of "psychological torture of innocent civilians".
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China Orders People "Poisoned By Extremism, Terrorism" To Confess Crimes
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
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Rights Group Alleges China Using Big Data as Repression Tool
Human Rights Watch says it has found new evidence that authorities in one of China's most repressive regions are sweeping up citizens' personal information.
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ISIS Releases New Video, Threatens Attack On China
ISIS terrorists from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers", according to a terror-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first ISIS threat against Chinese targets.
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China Police Kill 4 Over Xinjiang Attack: Report
Chinese police have shot dead four people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang region on Wednesday, state media said, in the bloodiest such incident in months.
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How Al- Qaeda-Linked Uighur Militants Are Affecting China
The suicide bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan on August 30 highlighted the expanding threat of an ethnic Uighur militant group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement - and the growing Chinese involvement in Syria and Afghanistan to combat it.
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Chinese Uighur Was Tortured Into Confessing Role In Bangkok Bomb: Lawyer
A Chinese ethnic Uighur man arrested in Thailand over a bombing that killed 20 people in Bangkok last year denied today charges of murder or involvement in the attack, retracting an earlier confession his lawyer said he was tortured into making.
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Expelled French Journalist 'Surreal' Ahead Of China Departure
A French reporter forced to leave China by authorities after she criticised government policy in violence-wracked, mainly Muslim Xinjiang, said she had been left with a feeling of "surreality" today ahead of her departure.
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Indonesian Police Arrest 2 More Suspected Terrorists
Indonesian police said they have arrested two more suspected terrorists including a member of China's ethnic Uighur minority who was allegedly preparing to be a suicide bomber.
