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  • In an interview with American television network CBS on Monday, US President Donald Trump declared that the US-Israeli conflict with Iran was "very complete, pretty much"
  • Human Rights Watch said on Monday that Israel had unlawfully launched white phosphorus munitions over civilian areas of Yohmor, a village in southern Lebanon, on March 3.
  • Five Iranian women's football players were granted humanitarian visas to Australia after their Asian Cup elimination.
  • An Iranian attack on a residential building in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, resulted in the death of a 29-year-old lady and eight injuries.
  • Iran is still attacking US and Israeli targets in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.
  • Over 486 people have died as a result of Israeli attacks in Lebanon. In Lebanon, around 700,000 people have been displaced.

Tag: Human Rights China

October 23, 2021

Death of Detained Uyghur Imam Underscores...

A Uyghur imam who survived 15 years in prison for separatism in northwestern China’s Xinjiang only to die during a two-year stint in an internment camp, raises questions of torture and highlights the abusive nature of the camp system that has drawn accusations of genocide, said Uyghurs with knowledge of the case

October 22, 2021

Dread Among Tibetans As ‘Butcher of...

The newly appointed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) boss in Tibet, a hardline apparatchik under multiple international sanctions for severe human rights abuses in neighboring Xinjiang, is expected to apply to Tibet’s Buddhists the same harsh policies carried out against the Muslims in Xinjiang, Tibetans and experts said

October 21, 2021

Report Documents Extensive Grassroots Policing of...

Scores of Chinese government bodies are engaged in an elaborate whole-of-government campaign of repression targeting Muslim Uyghurs in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, according to report published this week by an Australian think tank

October 19, 2021

French Mural of Former Uyghur Detainee...

A mural artist who champions the oppressed has painted a portrait of a former Uyghur survivor of an internment camp on a building in France’s second-largest city to raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Muslim minority group in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region

October 9, 2021

Uyghur Carpenter Serves Third Stint in...

A Uyghur who spent eight years in state custody during two separate prison terms on different charges in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region was detained a third time in September, according to a source with knowledge of the situation and police in his hometown

October 8, 2021

Tibet’s Exile Parliament Ends Oath-Taking Impasse...

After four months of controversy over the seating of Tibet’s exile parliament, all members of the parliament’s 17th session will now take their oaths of office under the terms of Tibet’s exile charter, following the intervention of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama

October 6, 2021

Interview: ‘The Current Situation of The...

Turkey has been one of the most hospitable countries to Uyghurs, with whom Turks share ethnic, religious, and linguistic connections. Turkey’s government has offered Uyghurs a safe place to live outside northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. About 50,000 Uyghurs are believed to live in Turkey — the largest Uyghur diaspora outside Central Asia

September 30, 2021

Uyghurs in Canada Open New Mosque...

With Koranic recitations and the raising of the blue and white crescent moon and star East Turkestan flag, Uyghurs in Canada opened a mosque and community center on the outskirts of Toronto in a renovated 150-year-old Roman Catholic Church to serve a community of 2,000 members of the Turkic ethnic group

September 21, 2021

Uyghur Exile Group Leader Turned Back...

Dolkun Isa, the president of the Munich-based (WUC) exile group, has been turned away at the airport in the Turkish capital Ankara and flown back to Germany Monday, two weeks after he learned that a travel ban against him had been lifted, he and his lawyer said

September 18, 2021

Woman Who Threw Eggs at Chinese...

A Chinese woman who threw eggs at vice president Wang Qishan’s motorcade during his 2019 trip to Germany is facing forcible repatriation after her application for political asylum was rejected, RFA has learned

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