Concentration Camps

It is widely known that China has been running a Soviet-style program to suppress religious freedom for years. But last month, we received irrefutable evidence of a threat that human rights advocates have long feared: China’s censorship efforts targeting religion and surveillance programs...

The position of Canada and its western allies on the Uyghur genocide is clear. The European Union, United Kingdom, United States, and Canada have not only condemned China for their repression of Uyghur Muslims, but have also imposed active sanctions on China. In recent years, major media...

Sayragul Sauytbay escaped Xinjiang to tell of its detention camps. In this extract from her book, she relives a day of horror in a camp ‘classroom’.

Global criticism of the forced labor of Uyghurs is growing, but China’s retaliation against companies standing up against human rights abuses is causing new anxiety for Japanese companies.

One million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, maybe more, have vanished into a sprawling network of camps and prisons in China's far west. Chinese officials at first denied the camps even existed. Then they claimed they were for training workers, or for re-educating potential radicals. Then...

The last time Jewher Ilham’s family saw her father, he had lost 40 pounds and his hair had turned grey. “He used to be a pretty chubby man and now he has nothing. And all his hair turned grey. But other than that he looked okay. He’s a very strong person, I mean a mentally strong person, or...

China makes headlines for good reason, though often not because of good news. Consider how often today’s challenges have prompted you to reflect on the Middle Kingdom and the pall it casts. In the misty origins of the present pandemic and the deception wrought by the Chinese government to...

The boycott movement marks a blurred line between genuine anger and manufactured outrage. Over the past month, a widespread online and offline campaign in China has emerged to support the production of cotton in Xinjiang and denounce international clothing brands that pledged to eschew its...

We can oppose the saber-rattling and militarism of the US’s China hawks without downplaying the oppression of the Uyghur people. The Uyghurs — a predominantly Muslim people who inhabit China’s northwestern Xinjiang province and consider the region their homeland — have long had a...