The Uyghurs, [note 2] alternatively spelled Uighurs, [24][25][26] Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central Asia and East Asia. The Uyghurs are recognized as the titular nationality of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China.

Jul 9, 2009 · In response to media queries on the situation in Urumqi, the MFA Spokesman said that the Singapore Embassy in Beijing is monitoring the situation closely and has been in touch with Singaporeans who are known to us to be in Urumqi. The Embassy will continue to maintain contact with them.

May 7, 2021 · To label what's happening in China's Xinijiang province as a "genocide" is "an abuse and misuse of the term", Singapore's former foreign minister George Yeo said on Wednesday evening, May 5.

Xinhua News Agency and the government of Kunming said that the attack had been linked to Sunni extremists which were a faction of Xinjiang separatists. [9][3][10] Police said that they had confiscated a black, hand-painted East Turkestan flag at the scene, which is associated with the Uyghur separatists from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...

Oct 6, 2022 · GENEVA - The UN rights council on Thursday rejected a Western-led motion to hold a debate about alleged human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region after a UN report found possible crimes...

Jan 20, 2025 · The last time Thailand deported Uyghur asylum seekers was in July 2015. Without warning, it put 109 of them onto a plane back to China, prompting a storm of protest from governments and human ...

Dec 9, 2021 · China has committed genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, an unofficial UK-based tribunal has found. The Uyghur Tribunal cited birth control and sterilisation measures allegedly carried...

Since 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide.

Aug 16, 2023 · On 17 December 2020, the European Parliament adopted a groundbreaking resolution on forced labour and the situation of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. On 7 December 2020, the EU approved a ‘Magnitsky Act’ to place targeted sanctions on gross human rights abusers.

May 24, 2022 · Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls "re-education camps", and...