Concentration Camps

OTTAWA -- Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union levelled sanctions against Chinese officials Monday over human rights violations against minority Muslims in that country. "These measures reflect our grave concern with the gross and systematic human rights abuses...

Co-ordinated effort with U.S. and other allies comes one month after MPs accused China of 'genocide'

US, Canada and UK join EU in ‘coordinated action’ to pressure China on Uighur policies.

Weeks before then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China of committing genocide against Uyghur Muslims, Kalbinur Gheni met him in his office in Foggy Bottom. She had three minutes to tell him about her sister, Renagul, and how she was sentenced to a Chinese internment camp for 17 years...

Meet Dorit Oliver Wolff and Ruth Barnett, who ask Boris Johnson  to stand up for Uyghur Muslims.

The largest group representing exiled ethnic Uighurs has written to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to demand that Beijing close its internment camps in the Xinjiang region in talks on Thursday.

Authorities in in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained the head of a township education committee, according to officials in his home county of Toksun (in Chinese, Tuokexun) in the region’s Turpan (Tulufan) prefecture.

From internment camps to mass sterilization, here’s why the ethnic minority’s birthrate is plunging.

Two brothers of RFA’s Uyghur Service editor Eset Sulaiman have been confirmed detained by authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), with other relatives believed held as part of what is seen as an intimidation campaign aimed at preventing him from reporting on...