The Chinese government has detained more than 1m of them in prison camps, under the guise of counter-terrorism
FIVE YEARS ago, few people in the West had heard of Uyghurs. Since then they have become a focus of international criticism of China, which is accused of committing grave human-rights abuses against the Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in the country’s far west. China’s actions in Xinjiang, where the majority of Uyghurs live, have...
The Canadian senate’s refusal to support a bill that labels China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims as genocide is "symptomatic of the Chinese communist government's infiltration and influence in Canadian politics and a cause for alarm," according to a Richmond group.
On June 29, a motion to declare the situation in China a genocide, was defeated in the upper chamber, with 33 senators voting against the bill, 29 voting in...
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A montage of the disappeared from the Urumqi riots, assembled by the Uyghur Human Rights Project.
Peace turned to fury on the streets of Urumqi twelve years ago after protests over the killing of Uyghur factory workers in inner China fell on deaf ears. Later that evening merciless summary retaliatory justice was meted out by Chinese troops that mowed down hundreds of Uyghur civilians, as witnessed by Risalat, a Uyghur eyewitness, their...
In June 2021, a group of U.N. independent experts expressed their concerns at allegations of organ harvesting carried out on minority groups including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians, in detention in China. According to the statement, the experts, including Mr. Fernand de Varennes, Special Rapporteur on minority issues; Mr. Ahmed Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; Mr. Nils...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday met with Uyghur Muslims who were previously detained in Chinese camps.
Blinken met seven camp survivors as well as relatives and advocates virtually, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
“The secretary thought it important to meet with these individuals to hear firsthand their stories, to hear firsthand their impression of the ongoing atrocities in Xinjiang and the internment of a...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken met virtually on Tuesday with Uyghur Muslims who were detained at camps in China’s northwest Xinjiang region to hear about their experiences and seek advice on how best to pressure China to halt repression there.
The State Department said Blinken wanted to hear directly from the seven former detainees, relatives of others and advocates about conditions that they and the Uyghur community more...
The new position if adopted into law would coordinate the US diplomatic and economic response to China's human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
The suspicious death in December 2020 of a Uyghur plant biology researcher at a detention facility in Xinjiang has drawn attention on social media.
Mihriay Erkin, 29, left her job at Japan’s Nara Technology and Science Institute in June 2019 and returned to China over concerns about the safety of her parents in Xinjiang. She was arbitrarily detained and sent to the Yanbulaq detention center in Kashgar in February 2020.
Her relatives...