Story Archive
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.
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.