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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says his country "remain deeply concerned about PRC human rights violations", after a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. IMAGES
The United States voices horror at new files on incarceration of China's Uyghur minority. "We are appalled by the reports and the jarring images," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Kashgar, Jun 14 (EFE/EPA).- The population of ethnic minorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang is nearly 15 million or more than 57 percent of the total inhabitants, the latest census data has shown.The survey has found that the population of the country's majority Han ethnic group in the region is 10.92 million or 42.24 percent of the total.Regional officials of the province said Monday that the population of the so-called ethnic minorities, including the Muslim minority Uighurs and the Han, had increased continuously in the last decade to stand at nearly 26 million, state-run Global Times daily reported. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTAGE SHOWS STUDENTS AT VOCATIONAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL OF JIASHI COUNTY IN KASHGAR; UYGHURS AND OTHER FAITHFUL PRAY IN ID KAH MOSQUE; AND LOCAL PEOPLE ON A STREET IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF KASHGAR IN WESTERN CHINA'S XINJIANG UYGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION.
Xinjiang, May 7 (EFE/EPA).- A muezzin calls for prayer during Ramadan from Kashgar's Id Kah mosque, the largest in China, without using a loudspeaker, unlike other Muslim places, while about 50 devotees gather to pray, a small number for a city of more than 700,000 people.The mosque, built in the 15th century and surrounded by gardens, can accommodate up to 20,000 people and is a symbol of Kashgar, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the legendary capital of southern Xinjiang, predominantly populated by the Uyghur ethnic minority.The mosque's imam, Juma Tahir, was stabbed to death by four Islamic extremists on July 30, 2014, outside the compound a few minutes after morning prayer, meeting the same fate as other imams, especially in southern Xinjiang. (Camera: JAVIER GARCÍA / WU HONG).B-ROLL OF THE PRAYER AT ID QAH MOSQUE, CHINA'S LARGEST MOSQUE IN KASHGAR CITY, B-ROLL OF XINJIANG ISLAMIC MOSQUE IN URUMQI, B-ROLL THE ARABIC CLASSES AND RECITATION OF KORAN IN THE ISLAMIC MOSQUE OF XINJIANG, B-ROLL OF PEOPLE EATING DURING THE MONTH OF RAMADAN IN A URUMQI MARKET, XINJIANG, CHINA.SOUND BITES: MAMAT JUMA, IMAM OF THE ID QAH MOSQU AND OMAR ABDEL ABDULLAH, STUDENT TO GRADUATE AS AN IMAM AT THE XINJIANG ISLAMIC INSTITUTE.TRANSLATIONS: 1. MAMAT JUMA, IMAM OF THE ID QAH MOSQUE. - Rreligious extremists used to come to every mosque in the past. My father (former Imam of the mosque) was assassinated here in 2014 for no reason - the extremists don't need any reason. They kill people under the pretext of Islam.2. OMAR ABDEL ABDULLAH, STUDENT TO GRADUATE AS AN IMAM AT THE XINJIANG ISLAMIC INSTITUTE.- Religious freedom is enshrined in the Chinese Constitution. It is totally up to us whethere we pray alone at home or in mosques. It is not required by the Government. But if we did it in a public place, we could be disturbing (social) order and annoy other people who are not religious.
Xinjiang, May 4 (EFE/EPA).- In a vast cotton field in the Chinese western region of Xinjiang, four farmers look over a tractor sowing seeds that will later be watered by an automated irrigation system. The field is located near Changji city that is situated some 40 kilometers (25 miles) away from Urumchi, the capital of Xinjiang, where forced labor is reportedly used in the cotton harvest.Reports from controversial German researcher Adrian Zenz and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) claim that at least 570,000 people are subjected to forced labor in the fields of Xinjiang, China’s top cotton producer. (Camera: JAVIER GARCÍA / WU HONG).B-ROLL OF THE COTTON FIELDS NEAR THE CITY OF CHANGJI, IN NORTH OF XINJIANG, AND THE MAIN FACTORY OF THE COMPANY HAUFU, IN THE AKSU REGION, SANCTIONED BY US OVER ALLEGING FORCED LABOR.SOUND BITES: HU QINGWEN, FARMER WHO MANAGES THE CHANGJI COTTON FIELD AND ASILIA TURCAN, AN UYGHUR EMPLOYEE OF HUAFU FACTORY.TRANSLATIONS: 1. HU QINGWEN, FARMER WHO MANAGES THE CHANGJI COTTON FIELD.- There are four cotton factories in this prefecture. I sell my cotton to those factories. I sell my cotton to whoever offers me the best price. They usually pay around 7 yaun ($1.08) per kilogram.2. ASILIA TURCAN, AN UYGHUR EMPLOYEE OF HUAFU FACTORY.- I like working here. The conditions are very good.- The information about forced labor is nonsense. It is fake news. There is no such thing as forced labor here.
Beijing, May 2 (EFE/EPA).- Millions of Chinese people on Sunday continued to celebrate May Day with trips around the country.The Labor Day holiday runs from 1 May through to 5 May, with millions of people around the country taking domestic trips.Labor Day is an annual worldwide celebration of workers and their achievements. May Day holidays in China will have 265 million passenger trips during 2021, said the Ministry of Transport on Thursday. (Camera: WU HONG).SHOT LIST: TOURISTS OUTSIDE THE BEIJING RAILWAY STATION IN BEIJING, CHINA.