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Xinjiang: Chinas attempt to control the narrative on the Uyghurs, from cover-up to propaganda blitz CNN 2 hrs ago By James Griffiths, CNN © Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images The Chinese flag flies over the Juma mosque in the restored old city area of Kashgar, in Chinas western Xinjiang region, on June 4, 2019. Chinas Foreign Ministry this week issued the most forceful defense of its policies in Xinjiang to date, calling allegations of "genocide" in the region the "lie of the cent...

Is Shamima Begum’s transformation a ploy to get back into Britain? Hadiya Masieh, a former Islamist turned intervention provider for the Home Office’s counter-extremism programme, gives her view 15 March 2021 • 6:21pm Shamima Begum, now 21, at Al Roj Camp in North Eastern Syria Credit: Sam Tarling for The Telegraph In the intervening years, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl – who left for Syria in 2015, aged 15, with two friends – has lost a baby to pneumonia and unsuccessfully challenged ...

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Xinhua | Updated: 2021-02-27 20:25 Share CLOSE Women stroll along the "Dove Lane" in the old town Tuancheng of Hotan city, Northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, May 26, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] LONDON - The Chinese embassy in Britain has written to the British weekly magazine The Economist to refute the untrue story in its recent article about Chinas Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to a statement released Friday by the embassy. ...

IN-DEPTH / IN-DEPTH Why is the US obsessed with smearing Xinjiang through gimmicks? By Zoey Zhang Published: Feb 25, 2021 06:23 PM Updated: Feb 25, 2021 10:27 PM Xinjiang couple in their new modern home   Photo: Yang Hui/GT As the Trump administration has left, Joe Biden is busy "sterilizing" the White House. Meanwhile the sinister slander alleging "genocide" released by Mike Pompeo, the clown of the century, before losing his job, lives on. Just as the Chinese people were happily celeb...

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbins Regular Press Conference on February 4, 2021 2021/02/04 Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council will attend a high-level dialogue with European entrepreneurs via video link in Beijing on February 5. He will make a speech and exchange views with the entrepreneurs. CCTV: A event themed "Xinjiang is a Wonderful Land" was jointly held by Chinas Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland and...

Fake news on Xinjiang hurting Western medias credibility chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-02-05 08:58 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin. [Photo/ipc.fmprc.gov.cn] Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin refutes Western media reports about Xinjiang while answering questions during a news conference on Thursday. CCTV: A event themed "Xinjiang is a Wonderful Land" was jointly held by Chinas Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva a...

Jihadis should do lie detector tests before leaving jail, terror watchdog says The terror watchdog says "people say things because they know thats what people want to hear" – Jonathan Hall QC is backing plans to make released terrorists take polygraph tests The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now The Daily Stars FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up today! When you subsc...

Neil Basu said Begum was the best example of the problem assessing the risk of letting someone back into the UK ISIS bride Shamima Begum will be arrested and must be treated as a security threat if she wins her legal battle to return home, the UKs counter-terror chief has said. Neil Basu said people who had gone to Syria and made it back should expect to be investigated and face prosecution. The assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said the country does not need to import a greater...

LONDON: A British expert on terrorism law has claimed that deradicalization programs for convicted terrorists don’t work, calling them “deceptive” and likening convicted extremists to sex offenders who lie about being reformed to obtain release from prison. The intervention comes against the backdrop of the UK attempting to introduce greater powers for authorities to monitor terrorists and extremists after they are released from prison. Jonathan Hall, QC, told The Times that the public sh...