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Detainees are told to bring bedding and food, suggesting they will not be released soon, sources say.

Governments are asked to impose sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials responsible for the law

National governments should strongly oppose the Hong Kong government’s introduction of so-called Article 23 national security legislation, which will further devastate human rights protections in Hong Kong, civil society groups including Human Rights Watch, said today in a joint statement.

Oxford University Press (OUP), a department of the University of Oxford, is facing scrutiny after a study published by one of its journals was flagged for using DNA collected from the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. Two further studies by Chinese researchers, published by the same journal under OUP, are also suspected of violating ethics standards. 

Human Rights Watch says auto manufacturers must do better job of minimizing this possibility.

The 99-page report, “Asleep at the Wheel: Car Companies’ Complicity in Forced Labor in China,” finds that some carmakers have succumbed to Chinese government pressure to apply weaker human rights and responsible sourcing standards at their Chinese joint ventures than in their global operations, increasing the risk of exposure to forced labor in Xinjiang. Most have done too little to map their aluminum supply chains and identify links to forced labor.

The Chinese government’s revised regulations in the Xinjiang region tighten controls over the religious practices of the predominantly Muslim ethnic Uyghurs.

China’s white paper gives an opportunity to analyse how Beijing countered extremism in its most sensitive Xinjiang province

This opinion piece was co-authored by Maya Wang, acting China Director at Human Rights Watch, and Yves Moreau, professor of bioinformatics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. The U.S. biomedical company Thermo Fisher Scientific announced on Jan. 5 that it will no longer sell human DNA identification technology to the Chinese police in the Tibet Autonomous Region. In 2019, it had made a similar decision to halt the sale of these products in Xinjiang, the northwestern region where the Chinese

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