China’s sweeping purge of senior military leaders has entered a new and more punitive phase. After a 22-month judicial process, two former defence ministers, Wei Fenghe and Li Shangfu, were Thursday sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, according to China’s state news agency Xinhua.Under Chinese law, a two-year reprieve...
Merely a week following the European Parliament’s landmark resolution condemning China’s “Ethnic Unity Law” adopted with an overwhelming majority of 439 votes, the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China (D-CN) convened a joint public hearing to examine the law’s...
A new investigation found some Labubu dolls contain cotton that is banned in the US because it comes from a region in China known for its forced-labor laws.
The plush monster toys have enjoyed a Cabbage Patch Doll-like craze around the globe, seen hanging off the luxury bags of celebs...
So far about 160 owners of kilns suspected of employing slave labour have been detained in the two provinces
The agency said a force some 45,000 policemen had raided thousands of kilns and small coal mines in Shanxi and Henan in recent days, freeing almost 600 slave labourers, including more than 50 children.
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There’s a quiet philosophical tension at the heart of all this. Tibetan Buddhism, as far as I could understand, has always understood that truth isn’t something abstract or fixed in ink—it lives in the fragile, ongoing conversation between teacher and student, in the precise words that point beyond words...
In what is seen as a significant escalation in international opposition to Beijing’s policies of forced assimilation in Tibet and other “ethnic minority” regions of the People’s Republic of China, the European Parliament has on Apr 30 adopted a resolution, strongly condemning its so-called “Ethnic Unity Law” which formally...
The United States State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, in its latest annual report to Congress under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018, has stated that Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) remains the only territory in the People's Republic of China (PRC) where foreign visitors,...
In a letter to the Chinese government dated 16 April 2026, eight UN human rights experts raised concerns about the new ‘Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress’, adopted by China’s rubber-stamp National People’s Congress on 12 March 2026 and due to enter into force on 1 July. The law significantly restricts the exercise of a range of social...
In a world often shaped by conflict-driven narratives, Tibet stands as a reminder that identity can be preserved not through confrontation, but through quiet resilience, storytelling, and cultural continuity. The essence of Tibet is not merely rooted in its geography, but in a rich civilizational heritage that continues to...
A Uyghur activist has accused China of waging a systematic campaign against the religious and cultural identity of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang region, or East Turkestan, warning that international silence is enabling continued repression.
Speaking to Strat News Global, Arslan Hidayat, co-founder of Kashgar Times, described the situation in Xinjiang...
