Story Archive
2020-03-27
Memettursun Daim has been held since April 2019, according to reports.
2020-03-26
Hidayet Musajan discusses learning that his father, Musajan Ehmet, was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
2020-03-24
The popular vocalist was handed 15 years in a secret trial last year, sources said.
2020-03-19
A local police officer’s claims bolster reports of similar transfers in other parts of the region.
2020-03-18
A Turkey-based Uyghur exile said she believes her younger sister may also have been interned.
2020-03-17
Qedriye Ghopur discusses her decision to publicize her mother’s case in online testimonials.
2020-03-12
Prisoners of conscience may have been targeted amid ‘extraordinary growth’ of the industry.
2020-03-11
The head of a labor watchdog says retailers must take responsibility for their part in forced labor in Xinjiang.
2020-03-11
The report accompanies the introduction of a bill that would ban all imports from the region to the US.
2020-03-10
Memet Abdulla’s harsh punishment comes despite nearly 40 years of government service.
2020-03-09
But both the young woman and the pensioner said to have the disease insist they are not infected.
2020-03-09
The inmates are to file lawsuit against alleged officials who beat them up in detention center.
2020-03-06
Experts say the designation could be used to bring a case in an international court of law.
2020-03-06
Ayturghan Hesenowa fled persecution in China’s Xinjiang Region in 1962 and later achieved fame throughout Central Asia.
2020-03-03
Nigare Abdushukur and her mother Merhaba were jailed in late 2018, according to a relative in exile.
2020-03-02
The Uyghurs were also told their relatives refused to speak with them, citing acts of ‘separatism.’
2020-02-28
An elderly Uyghur with longstanding medical issues says he was mistakenly quarantined for coronavirus.
2020-02-27
Members of the exile community say the move shows ‘Uyghur lives don’t matter’ in China.
2020-02-26
Authorities won’t deliver Abliz Niyaz medicine, but he fears being re-detained for leaving his home.
2020-02-24
Sources say that instead of offering help, officials demand payment in advance to bring them goods.
2020-02-21
Uyghurs and rights groups say conditions are ripe for concrete steps over internment camps.
2020-02-21
The attack followed threatening phone calls and an approach by a stranger warning her husband to 'keep quiet,' Tursunay Ziyawudun says.
2020-02-20
The Chinese nationals had sought asylum citing persecution, but were designated security concerns.
2020-02-19
Local officials confirm that one member of a Uyghur family of four in Ghulja is infected.
2020-02-18
Asiye Abdulahad says the document shows normal religious practices are landing Uyghurs in detention.
2020-02-14
Observers say authorities change the narrative on minorities when it suits their needs.
2020-02-12
Reports indicate that dozens of people arriving in Atush are being isolated amid fears of a local outbreak.
2020-02-06
They are confined to a hotel believed to be one of two holding people from the virus’s epicenter.
2020-02-04
Sources say they were never given advance warning, and are now running out of food and supplies.
2020-02-04
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on Kazakhstan to join Washington in pressuring Beijing to end its mass incarceration of Muslim minorities.
