Here's a summary of Uyghur-related news from around the world this week.
South China Morning Post reporters, editor quit after Xinjiang story axed in 2021, editor says
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 revealed the details in a talk before the Foreign Correspondents Club October 13 in Japan.
Rights groups demand that UK ban Xinjiang cotton
The World Uyghur Congress, based in Munich, Germany, and the Global Legal Action Network, a nonprofit, were in the High Court in London Tuesday to challenge the U.K. government's failure to ban the import of cotton associated with forced labor in Xinjiang.
Beijing detained hundreds of Uyghurs before CCP congress, sources say
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, according to anonymous sources cited in a Radio Free Asia report.
Beijing slams U.S. senator's bill to sanction Xi for abuses in Xinjiang
The Chinese Embassy in Washington sent an angry email 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.
News in brief
Members of Canadian Parliament this week called on the government 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.
Quote of note
"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."
