Multiple reports say Beijing is forcing Uyghur Muslims to work in Xinjiang fabric factories, prompting the US to ban imports of cotton from the region.

"The Wings of Songs" premiered in China on March 28 and is about a Uyghur, a Kazakh, and a Han Chinese man forming a musical group.

The BBC said it relocated China correspondent John Sudworth to Taiwan. He had reported on the coronavirus and treatment of Uyghur Muslims.

Two Chinese foreign ministry officials suggested that the US should not criticize Beijing's rights abuses while failing to address its own.

Human-rights groups say China has forced over a million Uyghur Muslims and other minorities into detention camps in the Xinjiang region.

A Chinese report obtained by the BBC shows Uighurs were given job-transfer schemes to "meld" them into mainstream society.

Mike Pompeo announced on January 19 that he considered China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims genocide. His successor Antony Blinken said Wednesday he agrees with that designation. But it’s not clear if the US will punish China as a result of that judgment. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Antony […]

On Thursday, the Chinese Embassy in the US posted a tweet claiming that Uighur women were no longer “baby-making machines” because of the eradication of extremism. Twitter removed it on Saturday morning for violating rules against “the dehumanization of a group of people,” according to Ars Technica. The tweet was […]

Huawei has worked with at least four partner companies to develop surveillance technologies that claim to monitor people by ethnicity, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Last week, The Post reported that Huawei in 2018 had tested a “Uighur alarm” – an AI facial recognition tool that claimed to identify members […]

Chinese telecom giant Huawei tested artificial intelligence software that could identify the faces of Uighur minorities and alert them to the government, according to a new Washington Post report. Huawei published a document that detailed its testing of the software, which could set off a “Uighur alarm” when it finds […]

Nike, Coca-Cola, and Apple were among the companies that lobbied to weaken a bill aimed at banning US firms from relying on Chinese forced labour, The New York Times reported Sunday. HSBC, American Apparel, and several industry groups also lobbied on the bill, which would ban many goods imported from […]

China is cracking down on another mainly-Muslim ethnic group, the Utsuls, according to the South China Morning Post. They are a group of around 10,000 who reside in Sanya, a city on the southern Hainan island, and are predominantly Muslim. Last month, Beijing banned the hijab and long skirt worn […]

Auditing firms have said they will no longer investigate Western companies’ supply chains in Xinjiang, China, where major brands have been connected to forced work by Uighur Muslims. Five firms told The Wall Street Journal that they would not run checks in the area, while two others reportedly told a […]

China is rounding up Tibetan farmers, sending them to military-style camps, and putting them to work in industry, according to a Reuters report. Workers are taught “discipline” and “gratitude” to reform “backward thinking,” according to government documents seen by Reuters and a report from Adrian Zenz, a researcher at The […]

Human rights groups say US President Donald Trump’s potential ban of cotton products coming from Xinjiang could push China to stop committing human rights violations against minority Muslims. China is one of the world’s biggest cotton producers, and 80% of its cotton comes from the Xinjiang region, where Beijing is […]

China’s embassy in the UK has demanded an investigation after its ambassador’s official Twitter account liked a pornographic clip and some tweets expressing anti-China sentiment. The BBC reported that Liu Xiaoming’s account liked “a 10-second video posted by an adult-themed page containing clips with Chinese-language descriptions,” as well as critical […]

People are furious with Disney’s newly released “Mulan” movie, and have called for a boycott of it. The movie’s credits thank government agencies in China’s Xinjang region, where millions of Muslims have been detained, surveilled, and subjected to human-rights abuses for years. Reports and watchdogs say people in the region […]