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Chinese Regime Is ‘World’s Foremost Violator of Religious Freedom’

It’s “absolutely inexcusable” that China’s communist government has been allowed to “play by its own rules,” said a commissioner from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “There is no question that China is the world’s foremost violator of human rights and religious freedom,” said USCIRF Commissioner Johnnie Moore in comments included in ...

Max Lu

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The Escape of a Uyghur Woman (Part II)

The Uyghur woman had much difficulty with the Xinjiang police. The Xinjiang police said that they would send her children to an orphanage called the “Angel Center.” The children are “little angels” because the parents of the “little angels” are in prison. They falsified Chinese passports for her two children. I said: “The two children ...

Emma Lu

The Escape of a Uyghur Woman (Part I)

My name is Mina. I am a Uyghur woman who grew up in the city of Korla in Qiemo County of Xinjiang Province, China. In March 2009, I applied for a passport from the authorities, which was not an easy process as it took me nine months and cost over US$5,000. I became a very ...

Emma Lu

US Lawmakers Want Sanctions on Chinese Officials Over Xinjiang Abuses

A group of U.S. lawmakers have called for a tough global response to the ongoing human rights crisis in China’s far west Xinjiang region. Led by Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris Smith, the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission asked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to sanction Chinese officials and entities ...

James Burke