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Allegations continue to grow of China’s oppression and mass incarceration of its Uighur Muslims, with the U.N. estimating at least a million are being held against their will in the country’s so-called “re-education camps.” As Redmond Shannon reports, one Jewish man stands in solidarity with the Uighur community, after seeing shades of a dark chapter...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there is a fundamental difference between Canada’s troubled relationship with Indigenous Peoples, and China’s systemic abuse and human rights violation against ethnic Muslim Uyghurs. He said Canada knows its relationship with Indigenous Peoples is broken but it had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is working to try and address...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged the international community on Monday to take coordinated action and impose sanctions in China for its human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang to ensure the global concerns are heard by and responded to by the Chinese government. Both the U.S. and the U.K. joined Canada last week in...

This week on ‘The West Block,’ Mercedes Stephenson speaks with Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau on his government’s decision to sanction Chinese officials suspected to be involved in that country’s campaign of persecution against its Muslim minority Uyghur population. “We are deeply preoccupied by the very credible reports of gross human violations that are occurring...

After Canada and some of its allies issued sanctions against Chinese officials over human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims, Beijing is firing back with its own sanctions. Mike Le Couteur reports, it could be a sign that international pressure is working.

Executive Director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project Mehmet Tohti describes how his entire family was arrested once he began to speak out against China’s treatment of the Uyghur population living in Xinjiang. Years later, three hours before he was set to publicly speak about the human rights abuses, he received a message telling him...

Peterborough Public Health has confirmed its first COVID-19 variant case; China is unhappy after the House of Commons voted to call China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims ‘genocide’; Peterborough Police need your help in tracking down the driver of a vehicle they believe was in the area during a fatal hit and run last month.

Sameer Zuberi, Liberal MP of the Pierrefonds-Dollard riding in Montreal, talks about the push to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics amid reported human rights abuses of China’s Uighur population and other Muslim minorities.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked why his government had not yet labelled the actions of China’s government against the ethnic Uighur Muslim minority a genocide, saying the word is “extremely loaded” and certain standards must be met before it can formally be used.

Conservative MPs in the House of Commons on Thursday continued to push the federal government to formally label the actions of the Chinese communist government against the Uighur Muslim minority in China as “genocide” and adopt a stronger stance against the Chinese government.

Chinese Ambassador to Canada Cong Peiwu said on Wednesday that Members of Parliament who voted in the House of Commons to declare China’s treatment of Uyghurs ethnic minority a genocide “have never been to Xinjiang” or China and are trying to achieve “political gains.”

The Conservatives have tabled a motion calling on Canada to formally declare crimes against Uyghur Muslims in China a genocide. UBC Professor Timothy Cheek explains who the Uyghurs are, what’s been happening to them, and why.

When asked on Monday if he believed the treatment of the Uighur people in China “amounts to a genocide,” Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne said they are “gravely concerned” about the situation, adding that he has raised the issue “both privately and publicly” with the foreign minister of China.

Warning: Violent content. Discretion advised. Several people were detained by Hong Kong police on Sunday after a support rally for Uighurs turned violent when authorities tried to disperse those gathered.

Speaking during a parliamentary committee hearing about Canada-China relations on Monday, Conservative MP Garnett Genuis interrogated senior vice president of B.C. Investment Management Corporation Daniel Garant, asking if his members would find it acceptable to invest “in a company that’s complicit in the Uyghur genocide” and saying “frankly, I don’t know how you sleep at...

The Uighur minority group in China is still facing intense persecution in China and experts say the situation is dire. According to the UN, at least a million have been detained in camps called “vocational training centres” and are being subjected to terrible conditions including torture. Abigail Bimman reports on this human rights crisis and...

China warned on Wednesday that the U.S. House of Representatives bill calling for a tougher U.S. response to Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority will impact bilateral cooperation, clouding prospects for a near-term deal to end a trade war.

A video posted by Feroza Aziz, 17, on Chinese-owned social network TikTok on Nov. 24 has gone viral after what starts as a tutorial video for eyelashes turns into a plea on behalf of the Muslim Uighur population in China. The video has since gone viral with over 1.5 million views on the platform, and...

Thousands of protesters marched in support of China’s Uighurs in Istanbul on Friday and voiced solidarity with Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil he criticized China’s policies toward the Muslim minority. Soccer star Ozil, a German Muslim of Turkish origin, posted messages on social media last week calling minority Uighurs “warriors who resist persecution” and criticized both...

This week on “The West Block” Mercedes Stephenson speaks to Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project. On the vote the Liberal cabinet abstained from in the House of Commons recognizing China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province as genocide, Tohti says, “our government, instead of abstaining from voting, we should...