Concentration Camps

A Uyghur textile trader and entrepreneur has died days after being freed from an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where he lost more than 100 pounds of weight over his three years in detention, according to sources.

The Uyghur diaspora lives in fear of the Chinese state. 1843 spent months recording the stories of London’s nervous community

China is waging a massive security crackdown on the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority in detention camps and prisons in Xinjiang, western China. Many Uighurs call the region East Turkestan or East Turkistan. The US State Department estimated earlier this year that up to three million Uighurs...