Story Archive
2020-07-20
The companies were identified by the US Commerce Department as complicit in human rights violations against Uyghurs.
2020-07-20
Authorities also confirm the first infection in the regional city of Kashgar.
2020-07-17
After confirming 17 infections, authorities ordered businesses closed and residents to remain at home.
2020-07-17
Brenda Smith discusses a recent shipment seizure and what products from Xinjiang her agency monitors.
2020-07-16
Timothy Grose discusses Beijing’s policy of ‘modernizing’ Uyghur homes.
2020-07-15
Observers welcome the move, although they acknowledge that it would largely be symbolic.
2020-07-13
The sanctions come days after the US announced a travel ban and asset freeze on top Xinjiang officials.
2020-07-09
Memetrusul Hesen describes years of seeking information about his family from exile in Kyrgyzstan.
2020-07-09
Rights groups had urged President Donald Trump to utilize the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act for weeks after it became law.
2020-07-08
An expert says Beijing is increasingly desperate to stop him from exposing abuses in the region.
2020-07-07
An expert says the White House should publicly define the nature of abuses in the region.
2020-07-06
A bipartisan group of Congressmen and Senators call for Magnitsky Act sanctions against those responsible for the policy.
2020-07-01
Morgan Ortagus discusses the next phase of the US approach to the persecution of the Uyghurs.
2020-07-01
Businesses are warned to be aware of the ‘reputational, economic, and legal risks’ of such ties.
2020-06-29
Adrian Zenz says the measures ‘undergird a wider game plan of ethno-racial domination’ in the region.
2020-06-26
Uyghur and Tibetan rights groups call for international community to hold Beijing accountable.
2020-06-26
A Uyghur who studied abroad questions his decision not to return home amid reports of his father’s detention.
2020-06-24
Sam Brownback says a new law ‘requires’ the US to review ways to end rights abuses in Xinjiang.
2020-06-22
The president has said he hadn’t done so because he didn’t want to derail earlier trade negotiations with Beijing.
2020-06-19
US President Donald Trump has wide discretion to implement the bill he signed into law this week.
2020-06-18
Azimet Enver was detained in 2018 along with his father who had visited him in Turkey.
2020-06-18
A Turkey-based Uyghur tells how she learned of her family’s imprisonment in Xinjiang from the Chinese Embassy.
2020-06-17
The new law is the first by any government to target China for its persecution of Uyghurs in the region.
2020-06-12
A former student says the curriculum is now ‘completely Chinese’ and that the school resembles a ‘prison.’
2020-06-11
Courtyards must now include an animal pen, vegetable garden, and paved verandah, sources say.
2020-06-10
Uyghurs and other Muslims were detained for beards and headscarves, as well as abstaining from alcohol.
2020-06-09
Qurban Mamut’s U.S.-based son believes his father was targeted to gain leverage over him.
2020-06-08
A Turkey-based Uyghur says his father was coerced into demanding he stop campaigning on behalf of his jailed mother.
2020-06-05
UHRP says China hopes to eradicate the historical significance of the ‘cradle of Uyghur culture.’
2020-06-04
The graveyard is the latest of dozens in the region that have been razed in recent years.
