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United States, European Union, and Canada Launch Multiple Sanctions against Xinjiang Entities

Earlier this week, the United States Department of the Treasury announced that its Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two Chinese government authorities responsible or complicit in the human rights violations taking place in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The two individuals, who were also sanctioned by the European Union and Canada, include Wang Junzheng, …

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SRI LANKA: Multi-Faith letter calls on the PM of Sri Lanka to abandon the introduction of anti-conversion laws known to “restrict legitimate religious freedom and target religious minorities.”

22 March 2021 PRESS RELEASE, Washington, DC., Following the recent report that the Ministry of Buddhasasana, Religious, and Cultural Affairs is currently drafting a legal framework for the implementation of anti-conversion laws, the multi-faith International Religious Freedom Roundtable sent out a letter, containing 36 signatures, on Monday, March 22, calling on the Prime Minister of …

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China Sues Dr. Adrian Zenz, Leading Research on Persecution of Uyghurs

During a press conference on Thursday, 18 March 2021, Deputy Propaganda head of the Chinese Communist Party in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region publicly accused German scholar Dr. Adrian Zenz of ‘fabricating’ allegations that the CCP is engaging in multiple types of persecution and human rights violations against Uyghur and other Turkic minorities, including surveillance, arbitrary …

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Australia is Perhaps Next in Uyghur Genocide Determination (…Or Not)

Today, March 15th, 2021, the Australian Parliament will be voting whether to pass or reject a motion designating the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Uyghurs as genocide. Such a determination would follow suit after the United States, Canada, and The Netherlands have all made similar designations. The motion, introduced by Australian Senator Rex Patrick, states …

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33 Experts Outline How China Has Violated the Genocide Convention

In March 2021, Newlines Institute released a groundbreaking report The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention, in which 33 independent experts on China, genocide prevention, Uyghurs, human rights, and ethnic policy come to the same conclusion: “The People’s Republic of China bears State responsibility for committing genocide against Uyghurs …

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India Repatriates Rohingya While Bangladesh Moves Them to Isolated Island

On Monday, March 8, 2021, it was revealed by government officials that India has started the process of repatriating Rohingya refugees to Myanmar; upwards of 150 have been detained for their illegal residency in Jammu and Kashmir and are currently in the process of being deported back to their home country, despite the tremendous human …

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Nigerian Schoolgirls Officially Released from Captivity

The group of Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted from their boarding school on Friday, February 26th, have officially been released from captivity as of March 2nd, 2021. No further details were provided regarding why the girls were eventually released, and the Nigerian government has denied claims that they had paid ransom for the girls’ release. …

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27 Nigerian Schoolboys Released by Kidnappers, 317 Schoolgirls Still Missing

On Saturday, February 27, 2021, a group of gunmen in Nigerian released 27 teenage schoolboys that they had abducted the week prior from Government Science secondary school in Kagara District, Niger State, Nigeria. During the initial incident on February 17th, a group of armed individuals ambushed the school and kidnapped 27 students, as well as …

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Dutch Parliament Makes Genocide Determination Regarding China’s Persecution of Uyghurs

A month after the United States Department of State officially designated the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Uyghurs as genocide, and just four days after the Canadian Parliament made the same determination, the Dutch Parliament has now joined the chorus of countries calling out the People’s Republic of China for its crimes against humanity and …

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300 Schoolgirls Kidnapped in Nigeria’s Zamfara State

On 26 February 2021, news broke in the early morning that an unidentified group of gun-wielding assailants abducted some 317 Nigerian schoolgirls in a midnight ambush on Jangebe Government Girls’ Secondary School. Zamfara State’s Commissioner of Information, Hon. Saluiman Tunau Anka, confirmed that the kidnapping occurred sometime around midnight, and that some of the students …

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