Cross-party backing likely for amendment to GB Energy bill aiming to block solar panels made by Uyghur forced labourThe government is facing defeat next week over a move to guarantee that companies using forced labour do not...
Read MoreForeign secretary discussed China’s treatment of Uyghurs and support of Russia as well as ‘areas of cooperation’David Lammy pressed his Chinese counterpart on human rights concerns and China’s support for Russia’s invasion of...
Read MoreExclusive: Party drops plan for formal recognition laid out last year by David Lammy, who will visit Beijing on FridayUK politics live – latest updatesLabour has backtracked on plans to push for formal recognition of China’s...
Read MoreForeign Office says officials would have been prepared to meet with Erkin Tuniyaz to raise human rights concernsThe governor of China’s western region of Xinjiang will not be visiting Britain this week, according to the UK...
Read MoreDemonstrators gathered in Westminster after reports Erkin Tuniyaz was to meet UK officialsIain Duncan Smith has accused the Chinese governor of Xinjiang of murder as he joined Uyghur activists protesting against his reported...
Read MoreErkin Tuniyaz is head of the Xinjiang region, where there are claims of human rights abuses taking placeThe former Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has joined calls for a governor from a region of China where the...
Read MoreWUC claimed UK unlawfully failed or refused to investigate cotton imports from XinjiangThe World Uyghur Congress has said it is disappointed to have lost a legal challenge against UK authorities for not launching a criminal...
Read MoreMichelle Bachelet accuses Beijing of ‘serious human rights violations’ minutes before her term endsThe outgoing UN human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, has said that China had committed “serious human...
Read MoreExclusive: Emily Thornberry appeals to Sajid Javid to tackle issue of forced labour in Chinese provinceLabour has written to the health secretary, Sajid Javid, urging him to ensure a new £5bn contract for NHS protective...
Read MoreForeign affairs committee calls for import ban on products from Xinjiang, where it says there is ‘industrial-scale forced labour’Britain must act to stop China’s atrocities against Uyghur Muslims by banning the...
Read MorePoliticians facing Beijing ban for views on Uighurs are welcomed to Rose GardenBoris Johnson has made an orchestrated gesture of defiance to Beijing, and of support for its critics, by on Saturday meeting a cross-party group of...
Read MoreConservative MP Nusrat Ghani says restrictions are a wake-up call to democratic countriesChina sanctions British MPs and others in Xinjiang human rights rowChinese actor quits as Burberry ambassador over cotton row 9.49am GMT...
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