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...

The Belgian Parliament on Tuesday passed a joint motion recognising 'crimes against humanity' and a 'serious risk of genocide' being perpetrated against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, becoming the sixth parliament to acknowledge the genocide against Uyghurs.

Hong Kong (CNN)A woman raises a toast in a photo that appears to show four friends enjoying dinner together. The reality couldn't be more different. The woman in the white ruffled shirt is Zumrat Dawut, an ethnic Uyghur from Urumqi, who fled China in 2019 to escape the alleged repression of...

We can oppose the saber-rattling and militarism of the US’s China hawks without downplaying the oppression of the Uyghur people. The Uyghurs — a predominantly Muslim people who inhabit China’s northwestern Xinjiang province and consider the region their homeland — have long had a...

But beware: many non-Chinese companies also use suspicious Xinjiang-produced polysilicon in their solar modules. When your friendly installer recommends Chinese solar panels, since they are effective and cheap, you should consider saying no. It is very probable that slave labor in Xinjiang...

Australia must stand up to China's bullying and call out the superpower's widespread use of forced Uighur labour, a parliamentary inquiry has been told. Every Uighur in Australia has suffered the anguish of having relatives imprisoned or go missing over the past five years, Australian Uighur...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced a bill to expedite refugee applications from Uighurs, matching an effort in the U.S. House of Representatives to assist members of the largely Muslim ethnic group that advocates say face persecution in China....

The deepening courtship between these two authoritarian regimes will only intensify the plight of Uyghurs in both countries. The incidents in China are, simply put, a genocide. There’s no point in interpreting this otherwise,” said Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2009, almost twelve...

TORONTO -- In an update to travel advice for Canadians visiting China, the government has added more detail regarding the Xinjiang region, warning that Canadians with ethnic ties to the region could be “at risk of arbitrary detention.” The official travel advice page for China on the...