Sean Roberts recently spoke with CAS web editor Jessica Chandras to provide an update on the situation for Uyghurs in Xinjiang since publication of his 2018 Critical Asian Studies article, “The Biopolitics of China’s ‘War on Terror’ and The Exclusion of the Uyghurs.”
A rights activist in Kazakhstan who faced seven years imprisonment over his outspoken opposition to neighbouring China was unexpectedly freed Friday as public and international pressure over his case mounted.
Unfortunately America’s desire to redress injustice far outstrips our ability to do so.
![Workers tend to a vehicle at the SAIC Volkswagen’s facility in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Sept 4, 2018 [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]](https://uhrp.org/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_related/public/field/image/5b8e8189a310add1c69a53bf.jpeg?itok=5j5iWhtV "Workers tend to a vehicle at the SAIC Volkswagen’s facility in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Sept 4, 2018 [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn]")
The Chinese government shows no sign of relenting in its campaign of repression in the northwest region of Xinjiang, where an estimated million Turkic Muslims are indefinitely detained and abused.
Classical totalitarianism, in which the state controls all institutions and most aspects of public life, largely died with the Soviet Union, apart from a few holdouts such as North Korea
THE Chinese government thinks that it can “fool the international community” and get away with injust treatment of religious minorities, the Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, has said.
In November 2017, 23-year-old Amanet Khan (name changed for safety reasons), a Chinese graduate student studying in New York City, knew something was wrong when her father stopped responding to her texts on WeChat, a popular messaging app in China. Gradually, even her mother’s texts slowed down to one-word responses.
Mass internment in concentration camps, forced labor, parent-child separation: These are just a few of the realities of life for Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. Scholar Darren Byler explains.
Fifteen studies about transplanted organs by researchers in China have been retracted this month due to concerns the work may have used organs from executed prisoners. Three other papers have been the subject of expressions of concern for the same reason, according to the website Retraction Watch which monitors questions raised over published research.
A DPP meeting with the Dalai Lama signals new regional cooperation among groups threatened by Chinese Communist Party.
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Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
Presentation by UHRP Director Omer Kanat at the July 24, 2019 U.S. Senate Human Rights Caucus Briefing "Religious Freedom in China: Assessing the Role of Surveillance Technology in Abuses Against the Uyghurs and Across China"
International Religious Freedom Ministerial Side Event: The Mass Destruction and Desecration of Uyghur Mosques by China. Remarks by Omer Kanat, Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project
Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 435 intellectuals as part of its intensified assault on Uyghurs and erasure of their culture.
A new special report published by the Uyghur Human Rights Project highlights the politically motivated linguicide of the Uyghur language
The Uyghur Human Rights Project has identified at least 386 Uyghur intellectuals detained and disappeared since early 2017, victims of the massive campaign of ethno-religious repression carried out by the Chinese government in the Uyghur homeland. It is time to end business as usual.
Persecution of teachers, scholars and artists constitutes an attempt to erase Uyghur culture. 338 Uyghur intellectuals interned, imprisoned or forcibly disappeared since April 2017, including 21 staff mebers of Xinjiang University. International scholarly exchange with China cannot be justified until they are released.