Bingham pro bono client Adel Abdul Hakim, a Uighur refugee held for four years at Guantanamo Bay despite having been cleared by the U.S. military of any terrorist or military involvement, was reunited with family members in Stockholm, Sweden, on Nov. 19, as Boston partner Sabin Willett recounts.
The Dalai Lama says he may appoint a successor or rely on an election before his death in a break with tradition, a Japanese newspaper reported Tuesday, following recent orders that China must approve Tibet's spiritual leaders.
China has jailed an ethnic Tibetan villager for eight years for "inciting to split the country" after he spoke at a gathering in support of the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
China will reject sanctions on Myanmar at a meeting of Asian leaders in Singapore this week, and won't press for a timetable for democratic reforms sought by the U.S. and the United Nations, a Chinese official said.
China lashed out on Monday against a U.S. commission that accused it of currency manipulation and called for legislation imposing penalty tariffs on Chinese goods.
China has given further indications of the strain in its relations with Germany. The Chinese finance ministry cancelled a scheduled meeting with German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück in Beijing.
China's extensive spying inside the United States is the greatest threat to the security of American technology secrets.
A Chinese official says security forces are prepared to stop protests during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Yahoo's apology and financial settlement with the families of two prisoners in China are warnings to American business. Ethical behavior does not begin and end with the law.
An angry American official took to the microphone at a plenary session of the US-Africa Business Summit on today to protest at what he saw as a reluctance in Africa and at the summit itself to note the differences between the contributions of the United States and China.
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Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
The “laboratory of repression” in East Turkistan demands action by a long list of institutions. Universities, hospitals, and medical companies cannot claim ignorance. The cotton industry and tech companies are on notice. The World Bank and the Olympics are in the hot seat for complicity. History is watching. The lesson is very simple: business as usual must not continue.
A new report presents evidence of the complete or partial destruction of over 100 mosques by the Chinese government. Researcher Bahram Sintash and the Uyghur Human Rights Project cross-reference satellite imagery, photographs, and witness testimony to document the Chinese government’s campaign to wipe out the physical sites of Uyghur Islamic practice.
In 2015, Beijing was awarded the rights to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. While the government of the People’s Republic of China has overseen preparations for the 2022 Games under the motto of “joyful rendezvous upon pure ice and snow,” the same state has also overseen the development of a network of concentration camps in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang).
Congressional-Executive Commission on China Hearing: Forced Labor, Mass Internment, and Social Control in Xinjiang
UHRP calls for greater protection of Uyghur Americans against Chinese state harassment.
Presentation by UHRP Director Omer Kanat at the July 24, 2019 U.S. Senate Human Rights Caucus Briefing "Religious Freedom in China: Assessing the Role of Surveillance Technology in Abuses Against the Uyghurs and Across China"