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...

WASHINGTON - Human rights activists and Uyghur experts have welcomed a "people's tribunal" initiated in London last week to probe whether China's alleged crimes against the Uyghurs amount to genocide, stressing the need for more practical action from the international community. A nine-member...

WASHINGTON - Uyghur and Kazakh women activists who have been at the forefront of international criticism of Beijing’s repressive policies in Xinjiang say they are not backing down after Chinese officials publicly smeared their character to try to discredit them. Several women have become...