UN human rights experts have raised serious concerns about the alleged detention and forced labour of Uyghurs in China, calling for unhindered access to the country to conduct fact-finding missions and urging global and domestic companies to closely scrutinize their supply chains. Several experts appointed by the Human Rights Council said they had received information … Read more
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of Imams have been detained in Xinjiang creating an atmosphere in which Uyghurs are “afraid of dying” because there is no one to oversee their funeral rites. Abduweli Ayup, a Norway-based fellow with the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), have revealed that at least 613 Imams have been held at detention … Read more
HONG KONG: Hong Kong police arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai and raided the publisher’s headquarters Monday in the highest-profile use yet of the new national security law Beijing imposed on the city after protests last year. “Jimmy Lai is being arrested for collusion with foreign powers at this time,” Mark Simon wrote on Twitter. Hong … Read more
By Kanwal Sibal With the ongoing Chinese aggression in Ladakh, why China’s ambassador chose to engage publicly with some Indian interlocutors in an event organised by a Delhi-based institute is not easy to fathom. Such an initiative would make sense if official level negotiations were on a productive track and Beijing felt that the ambassador … Read more