Story Archive
2019-12-09
The region’s chairman says future ‘training’ will be based on ‘independent will,’ rather than coercion.
2019-12-06
The request comes amid reports of widespread abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
2019-12-05
Erkin Ayup was detained after spending decades as a civil servant.
2019-12-04
Guljamal Ebeydulla was detained because she served a previous jail sentence in connection with wearing a hijab.
2019-12-03
The bill calls for sanctions on the Xinjiang Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo.
2019-12-03
Waris Ababekri had been detained in January and died within a week of being freed last month.
2019-11-26
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the China Cables prove ‘intentional’ violations in the region.
2019-11-25
Instructions are provided for preventing escape, keeping the program secret, and using ‘points’ to grade detainees.
2019-11-24
Adrian Zenz says that the region has built between 1,300 and 1,400 camps.
2019-11-22
Uyghurs say refusing to eat pork leads to accusations of ‘extremism.’
2019-11-21
America’s top diplomat highlighted Alfred Erkin’s case in a statement slamming abuses in Xinjiang.
2019-11-21
“The world must not let this whistleblower down,” says the Washington Post.
2019-11-19
Family members submit to invasive questions but know little about the officials who stay at their homes.
2019-11-18
The ‘Xinjiang Papers’ detail how President Xi Jinping ordered a crackdown against Uyghurs in the region.
2019-11-18
Ibrahim Kurban was never heard from again after being detained by an official from his local Public Security Bureau.
2019-11-14
Intellectuals, businessmen, and religious figures are often targeted publicly to set an example to others.
2019-11-14
The 14 were sent against their will, says a judicial official who brought them to the facility.
2019-11-12
Evidence points to a shift to coercive labor from vocational training, according to Adrian Zenz.
2019-11-05
Washington is troubled by reports that Beijing has "harassed, imprisoned, or arbitrarily detained" family members of Uyghur activists and survivors of internment camps.
2019-10-31
Officials call the sleeping arrangements ‘normal’ and a way to ‘promote ethnic unity.’
2019-10-30
The countries slammed mass detentions, restriction of rights, and surveillance measures.
2019-10-30
Tursunay Ziyawudun said women endure a special hell in the region’s camp network.
2019-10-29
The number is significantly higher than any reported since mass incarcerations began in the region.
2019-10-28
Authorities told the man’s family he died of complications from an undiagnosed heart condition.
2019-10-25
Sidiqulla Nurmemet had tried to enter Saudi Arabia but was turned away and deported back to Cairo, friends and family say.
2019-10-24
The European Parliament calls for the immediate release of the outspoken economist.
2019-10-23
But an official says the township has a village with even more people detained.
2019-10-22
Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah want more evidence about China’s treatment of the minority group.
2019-10-21
Himit Kari had openly criticized the policies he enforced at a friend’s gathering early this year.
2019-10-17
Sam Brownback says Muslims made aware of the Uyghurs’ plight should press their governments to confront China.
