Story Archive
2019-10-17
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback urges the people of Muslim majority nations to pressure their governments to condemn China’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
2019-10-17
Forced labor goes unchecked under the guise of ‘vocational training,’ they tell a Washington panel.
2019-10-14
Zumuret Dawut says she believes her brother Abdulhelil Dawut was forced to record his statement.
2019-10-10
In June, the family had been reported as ‘safe at home’ in Xinjiang following weeks held incommunicado.
2019-10-08
The announcement comes a week after Tohti was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize in absentia.
2019-10-08
The move will block companies’ access to American components and limit their access to the US market.
2019-10-07
Hesenjan Ismail was arrested more than a year ago and had been missing ever since.
2019-10-02
Foreign office rebukes U.S. newspaper after it published comments from a diplomat’s report that criticized conditions in Xinjiang.
2019-10-02
America’s top diplomat highlights detentions based on ‘the crime of being Muslim.’
2019-10-01
Tibetan, Uyghur demonstrators say ethnic minorities and dissidents have suffered for decades, despite economic growth.
2019-09-30
The prestigious award recognizes ‘outstanding civil society action in defense of human rights.’
2019-09-25
Ablikim Abla was held for three days in the airport in Casablanca while en route to Germany.
2019-09-24
Zumuret Dawut had to agree to a forced sterilization in order to be able permitted to leave Xinjiang with her husband and family.
2019-09-24
The US Deputy Secretary of State says failing to do so has damaged the body’s reputation.
2019-09-24
Australian researcher Nathan Ruser explains how he was able to use satellite imagery to find out when and where in the XUAR a leaked video was taken.
2019-09-23
The footage shows blindfolded and bound inmates taken off of a train under heavy guard.
2019-09-20
Ilham Tohti’s daughter says China has worsened tensions in Xinjiang by disregarding her father’s advice.
2019-09-19
The Renew Europe group says Tohti worked tirelessly to foster dialogue between Uyghurs and Han Chinese.
2019-09-19
Kong Yuanfeng describes life in a women's prison in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
2019-09-18
Authorities say the two men ‘became ill,’ but provide no details.
2019-09-17
Abdujelil Hajim is now in intensive care after his health seriously deteriorated in prison, sources say.
2019-09-16
Phone apps, cameras, and DNA collection wrap a tight net around the region's ethnic Uyghurs, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom says.
2019-09-12
Nihad Jariri says Beijing’s policies in the region are ‘suffocating’ and ‘feeding extremism.’
2019-09-12
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act crosses a major hurdle to becoming law.
2019-09-10
The group calls on Chinese President Xi Jinping to intervene in Tashpolat Teyip’s case.
2019-09-09
Arslan taught Mandarin Chinese to Uyghur students at a primary school in Ghulja.
2019-09-06
Sources said they were unsure who had been caring for the three-year-old when he died.
2019-09-04
Rozi Haji and Memet Hemdul were detained within months of each other in late 2017.
2019-08-30
Kadir Memet is thought to have been arrested in recent months, despite his loyalty to the government.
2019-08-29
Olsi Jazexhi said he learned that mass incarcerations are part of a bid to assimilate Uyghurs in the region.
