Washington —
Here's a summary of Uyghur-related news from around the world this week.
After a South China Morning Post senior editor killed a three-part series on China's birth control policies for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, two reporters and an editor resigned from the Hong Kong-based media company. Peter Langan before the Foreign Correspondents Club October 13 in Japan.
The World Uyghur Congress, based in Munich, Germany, and the Global Legal Action Network, a nonprofit, to challenge the U.K. government's failure to ban the import of cotton associated with forced labor in Xinjiang.
Ahead of the Chinese Communist Party congress in October, Chinese authorities in Xinjiang targeted Uyghurs born in the early 2000s for detention in a recent crackdown,
The Chinese Embassy in Washington dated Monday to Republican Senator Josh Hawley for proposing to sanction Chinese leader Xi Jinping for his role in alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim groups in Xinjiang.
Members of Canadian Parliament this week to expedite the resettlement of Uyghur refugees to Canada. More than 50,000 Uyghur refugees live in Turkey, where they might face deportation to China, experts say.
"Countries like Turkey, where most Uyghur refugees live, depend on China economically," said Mehmet Tohti, Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project executive director, "And that can influence those countries' decision on how to deal with Uyghur refugees, like intimidating them to return to China."