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The Kremlin revealed on Friday that Chinese dictator Xi Jinping invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, an occasion marred by China’s ongoing human rights atrocities, including genocide.

China’s Global Times propaganda outlet celebrated the over three-hour-long video call between President Joe Biden and dictator Xi Jinping on Monday as a win for China, highlighting Biden’s apparent “eagerness” to make nice with the world’s worst human rights abuser.

Mihrigul Tursun, a Uyghur Muslim woman who became an activist after multiple stays at a Chinese concentration camp, told Breitbart News the harrowing details of her torture in these facilities before escaping to the United States.

NBA star Enes Kanter urged President Joe Biden to “stop playing games with bullies” in anticipation of his scheduled virtual meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Monday.

The international organization Human Rights Watch demanded in a statement on Sunday that sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics certify that and explain how their participation in the event – held in a country currently committing genocide – does not involve or enable gross human rights atrocities.

A study published Wednesday by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs found that the Chinese Communist Party was engaging in “daily” harassment and threats against members of the Uyghur-American community living in the United States.

National Basketball Association (NBA) star Enes Kanter participated in a protest against the Chinese Communist Party in Washington, DC, this weekend, urging Congress to “take tangible steps to end slavery” there.

During a Thursday appearance on FBN’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized so-called “woke” American companies for their hypocrisy in partnering with the Chinese government, which he labeled a genocidal government that is using Uyghur Muslim slave labor.

Police in Saudi Arabia arrested an American citizen in Mecca on Wednesday for wearing a shirt reading, “Pray for the end of China’s genocide & occupation in East Turkistan,” his son, the head of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, denounced.

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter continued his campaign against the Chinese Communist Party on Sunday with the debut of sneakers featuring images inspired by the Tiananmen Square massacre and what appears to be an illustration of himself holding the severed head of Winnie the Pooh.

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter published a video Friday condemning “heartless dictator” Xi Jinping for the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic minorities in western China.

Tibetan activists have been arrested after the handover of the Olympic torch to China in Greece in preparation for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing – “despite not engaging in any protest” – on Tuesday said they saw other apparently Asian people in jail arrested for no clear reason, the World Uyghur Congress denounced.

A key Japanese advocate for human rights in China – and leader in calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics – told Breitbart News this week that, in addition to governments and Olympic sponsors, high-profile Japanese athletes should use their platforms to denounce the ongoing genocide of ethnic minorities in the country.

The leader of the exiled government of East Turkistan – the western, largely Uyghur-populated region China refers to as Xinjiang – told Breitbart News this weekend that China takes its friendship with the Taliban “very seriously,” as it could soon help lead to Beijing establishing a “strong foothold” in the Persian Gulf.

Beijing on Friday called for a “crackdown” on the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a group China claims is a Uyghur terror organization active in eastern Afghanistan, following a deadly terrorist attack at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday.

Participation, by countries and sponsors both, in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is “indefensible” in light of the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing genocide against the ethnic Uyghur people and other Muslim-majority minorities of East Turkestan, the World Uyghur Congress told Breitbart News.

Ethnic Uyghurs from China’s Western Xinjiang region currently residing in Afghanistan told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday they fear the Taliban terror group may deport them to China now that the group has seized control of the country.

The CEO of Open Doors USA, a human rights organization that focuses on lending aid to persecuted Christians around the world, urged corporate sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to reconsider their ties to the event.

Both the Taliban and the former government of Afghanistan have aided in China’s transnational repression efforts to silence Uyghur dissidents, a joint report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs revealed this month.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday responded to extensive evidence that China is perpetrating genocide against ethnic Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang territory by accusing the United States of executing “the real genocide” against Native Americans, the state-run Global Times reported Thursday.

The independent outlet ADN Cuba published photos late Thursday reportedly showing members of Cuba’s “black beret” repressive forces training alongside the Chinese People’s Armed Police (PAP), a paramilitary force deployed to repress Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Hong Kong protesters.

The prime minister of the East Turkestan government in exile, Salih Hudayar, told Breitbart News on Monday that the Uyghur people and other Muslim groups in the region support the Cuban people’s fight for freedom and the U.S. should act to protect both from the “existential threat” of communism.

A Taliban spokesman told an Asian magazine this week that the jihadist organization considers China a “friend” that it “welcomes” to do business in Afghanistan, and vowed not to help a Uyghur terrorist group most experts believe does not actually exist.

Zumrat Dawut, a Uyghur woman who endured two months in a Chinese concentration camp, told Breitbart News in an interview Monday that she witnessed Communist Party officers torture and disappear people who refused to accept dictator Xi Jinping as their god.

The prime minister of Pakistan, Islamist former sports star Imran Khan, told Chinese reporters his country accepts China’s denials that the Communist Party is committing genocide against Muslim ethnic minorities, the Pakistan newspaper Dawn reported Thursday, despite overwhelming evidence to the country.

The government of Ukraine quietly withdrew support for a United Nations resolution demanding China allow an investigation into its concentration camps this weekend, promoting effusive applause from Chinese state media on Monday.

Dozens of Muslim-majority countries worldwide have cooperated with Chinese government authorities in recent years to deport ethnic Uyghurs back to China, according to a new report published by the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) on Thursday.

China published a “human rights white paper” on Thursday exonerating itself of all accusations of human rights abuses, instead declaring no pre-existing definition of the term “human rights” applies to the country and that the Communist Party brought “national liberation” from Western “colonialism.”

The U.S.-based Hilton hospitality company is developing a hotel built on the site of an Uyghur mosque recently demolished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China’s western region of Xinjiang, Bitter Winter reported on Wednesday.

A representative of the Communist Party in western Xinjiang, China, claimed that every single person who has testified to being tortured and forced into slavery at a Chinese concentration camp was an “actor,” the People’s Daily reported on Monday.

Chinese cotton industry groups launched a campaign Thursday to “build a homegrown independent sustainable standard and certification system” to shirk condemnation from the systems that exist internationally in response to evidence of widespread use of slave labor to pick cotton in China.

The Chinese Communist Party celebrated on Sunday that the current number of organ donation “volunteers” in the country is 100 times the size it was in 2015, shortly before China began building concentration camps for ethnic minorities.

A witness at this week’s Uyghur Tribunal in London, identifying himself as a former Chinese law enforcement officer, testified that his colleagues regularly used torture devices and severely brutalized victims in the nation’s Uyghur concentration camps, the human rights magazine Bitter Winter reported on Thursday.

A report published Tuesday by the website The Information accused Apple of partnering with Chinese manufacturers that openly, and illegally, reject individuals from jobs based on race and ethnic background – the same ethnic backgrounds of people they stand accused of exploiting as slaves.

A London panel organized by the World Uyghur Congress known as the “Uyghur Tribunal” concluded on Monday with testimony alleging that the Chinese government has perpetrated “compulsory sterilization,” “forced contraception,” and “torture” on ethnic Uyghurs in China’s western Xinjiang region.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) expressed concern Thursday that a Biden administration executive order that changed Trump-era rules on U.S. investment in Chinese companies would give too much authority to a Treasury Department “too closely aligned with Wall Street.”