Concentration Camps

The recently leaked document provides new insight into how China characterizes extremist threats. More than three quarters of the names on a recently leaked Chinese government list of some 10,000 “suspected terrorists” are ethnic Uyghurs, while the document includes hundreds of minors and the...

Uyghur homes have a QR code on their doors, so officials can track and trace all activity — job history, religious practices, past writings, family, friends, etc.

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...

Gulbahar Haitiwaji was living in France in November 2016 when she received a phone call telling her she had to return to Karamay, an oil city in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region where she was born. There were important documents to sign, she was told, and she had to come in person....

Nury Turkel, a US commissioner on religious freedom, also calls for pressure on China to end genocide. Lawmakers must act to cut U.S. ties to forced labor and expedite asylum for Uyghur refugees, and Washington should push the global community to end what it has designated a genocide in...

Parliament has unanimously declared that "severe human rights abuses" are occurring against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, China. A parliamentary motion about China’s actions in Xinjiang was agreed to by all MPs after a debate in the House on Wednesday. The statement called on the Government...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Unwinding for the evening in her Washington, D.C. flat, Uyghur activist Jewher Ilham often has two thoughts as she turns on her laptop: What should I watch tonight? And will I be interrupted by Chinese hackers again? From her webcam switching on by itself...

Get to know Gulchehra Hoja, who works for Radio Free Asia, and whose relatives are in the concentration camps Gulchehra Hoja is well named. Her first name refers to the face of a flower: warm, smiling, full of hope. Her last name means “teacher,” or “knowledgeable person.” “Gul,” as she is...

A Uyghur academic director and prolific translator who is the brother of an RFA reporter has been sentenced to a lengthy prison following two years spent in an internment camp in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) for “religious extremism,” according to officials. Ahmetjan Juma,...