China is trying, after G20, to negotiate its way out of the current trade war with the U.S.. But tariffs aren’t the only problem it’s facing in Washington. Lawmakers have started paying attention to [alleged] human rights abuses against the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority in Northwest China. In August,...
To mark Human Rights Day on December 10, 2018, Tibetans across the world will join Uyghur, Southern Mongolians, Chinese, and Hong Kong activists to demand what they should be guaranteed: their rights and freedoms.
The United Nations has requested direct access to "re-education camps" in China's Xinjiang province, where more than one million Muslim majority Uyghurs have reportedly been imprisoned.
When Chinese state authorities prepared to release Gulbahar Jelil, an ethnic Uyghur woman born and raised in Kazakhstan, they told her that she was forbidden to tell anyone about what she had experienced over the one year, three months, and 10 days in which she was detained…
She didn’t listen.
Chinese students of Han ethnicity don’t worry about getting sent to re-education camps, they fear their Uyghur language teachers will one day disappear.
Over one million Uighurs are being detained in the Xinjiang region of northwest China — and Rushan Abbas's aunt and sister are likely among them.
Around one-fifth of the population is detained for ‘inappropriate phone content’ and ‘misdemeanors.’
Uighurs living in Australia have accused Beijing of using surveillance tactics to silence their community and stop them speaking out about what is happening to their families back in China.
The region, which is home to ethnic Chinese Muslims, signs a cooperation agreement to bring Xinjiang's war against terror to its own backyard.
Askar Yunus had published work about the golden era of his ethnic group’s history.
Bibliography of select news reports & academic works
Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) details how 231 intellectuals have been forcibly disappeared, interned in political indoctrination camps, removed from their posts or imprisoned since April 2017.
Remarks at the International Religious Freedom Roundtable
Testimony of UHRP Chairman Nury Turkel, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Asia Subcommittee Hearing: "China's Repression and Internment of Uyghurs: U.S. Policy Responses." September 26, 2018.
Oral Statement of UHRP Chairman Nury Turkel, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Asia Subcommittee Hearing: "China's Repression and Internment of Uyghurs: U.S. Policy Responses." September 26, 2018.
The human rights crisis in East Turkestan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) requires an urgent international response. The mass internment of Uyghurs in camps across the region is occurring as the Chinese government promotes itself globally as a model of governance and trade through the Belt and Road Initiative.
The mass internment of Uyghurs in camps across the region is occurring as the Chinese government promotes itself globally as a model of governance and trade through the Belt and Road Initiative. A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project documents the camp system and the individuals impacted.