Palau was to be a temporary home for six detainees from China’s Muslim minority group while negotiations continued to find a permanent country of refuge. They’re still here.
Malaysia’s secret forced return to China of six Uighurs with pending asylum claims on December 31, 2012, was a grave violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the Malaysian government today.
At a forum on Capitol Hill on January 31st, four China issue experts sharply questioned the widespread assumption in the news that the newly-installed, younger leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, who...
A prominent scholar from China’s Turkic Uighur ethnic minority said Sunday he was detained for more than 12 hours at Beijing’s airport and then sent home when attempting to board a flight to the U.S.
The Uyghur American Association (UAA) calls on the Chinese government to immediately halt all discriminatory practices regarding the issuance of passports to Uyghurs.
A new 37-page report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) examines the effects of the Xinjiang Work Forum, held in May 2010, which heralded an unprecedented state-led development push in East Turkestan.
A new 89-page report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) documents the Chinese state’s top-down destruction of Uyghur communities in Kashgar and throughout East Turkestan, in a targeted and highly politicized push that Chinese officials have accelerated in the wake of turbulent unrest in the region in 2009.