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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Protesters demonstrated against the demolition of mosques in Xinjiang and mass arrests of Uighur Muslims
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Chinese embassy in the United Kingdom capital on Thursday to condemn Beijing's treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority, as China marked the...
Senators declined to label China's treatment of its Muslim minority Uyghur population as a genocide Tuesday evening.
A motion brought forward by Sen. Leo Housakos called on the Senate to recognize that a genocide is currently being carried out against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims....
A top union leader has called on the Morrison government to urgently introduce laws to prevent Australian businesses from “profiting by importing goods made by slavery”, as the push gains support from across the political spectrum.
The president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions,...