Story Archive
2019-06-28
Qaharjan Qawul had been detained for calling ‘blacklisted’ families and traveling to Turkey.
2019-06-25
But rights groups dismiss his remarks as propaganda and call him a traitor to the Uyghur community.
2019-06-24
Aytursun Eli was targeted by police after she travelled to Dubai for her tourist agency.
2019-06-21
China has detained hundreds of thousands of Muslims accused of extremism, while Rohingya continue to face violence at the hands of Myanmar’s military.
2019-06-20
One Indonesian Muslim leader praised the internment camps as “great” for teaching Uyghurs life skills.
2019-06-19
Chinese authorities entered the embassy grounds and removed the family before returning them to Xinjiang.
2019-06-17
Washington says “highly inappropriate” visit risks endorsing Beijing’s problematic view of the Uyghur issue.
2019-06-17
Reports suggest Nurmemet Tohti was only released after becoming incapacitated by diabetes and heart disease.
2019-06-14
If accepted, Michele Bachelet would become the highest level UN official to visit the region.
2019-06-13
The five-year-old girl’s body was recovered from a river nearly a week after she died, sources say.
2019-06-07
Senior Pentagon, State Department officials see security threats arising from abuses of Muslims and seek global response.
2019-06-06
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act would seek accountability for China’s harsh crackdown in Xinjiang.
2019-06-06
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback warns that appeasing China on its Uyghur detention camps will embolden Beijing and other repressive regimes.
2019-05-29
State Department says “human rights abuses in Xinjiang must end and they must end now.”
2019-05-24
Human Rights Watch challenges the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on its silence about Uyghurs.
2019-05-23
They are told that eating pork will help create ‘unity among nationalities’ when they are released.
2019-05-22
Bipartisan Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act calls for attention to plight of Uyghurs, security threats from crackdown.
2019-05-20
Officials grant the sessions ‘because they know we are suffering,’ a former detainee says.
2019-05-16
A report urges Uyghurs to ensure a future for the language through intergenerational transmission.
2019-05-15
Scott Busby discusses State Department concerns over the mass incarceration of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
2019-05-09
The peaceful advocate for Uyghur rights and better ethnic relations 'embodies a fearlessness to which we all aspire,' a US senator says.
2019-05-09
Alim Ahet, the founder of an influential software firm, disappeared in early 2018.
2019-05-06
Some U.S.-based Muslims call for a boycott of China over Xinjiang Ramadan restrictions and internment camps.
2019-05-02
Human Rights Watch reveals intrusive high-tech monitoring system used to detain Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.
2019-04-30
Guterres’ remarks in Beijing seen as “tiptoeing” and “weak expression of concern” for persecuted Uyghurs.
2019-04-26
The photo was posted to the WeChat account of the Xinjiang Judicial Administration showing Uyghur detainees listening to a 'de-radicalization' speech, April 2017.
2019-04-18
Authorities refused to hand the body of Yaqup Rozi over to family members, sources say.
2019-04-17
A Holocaust survivor urges the international community to work to end rights abuses in Xinjiang.
2019-04-16
Sources suggest Ilyas Memet was arrested for traveling to blacklisted countries.
2019-04-12
The detainees were delivered in more than a dozen buses, escorted by police under the cover of night.
