Uyghur Genocide

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...

New Zealand’s parliament will not debate a motion that would label the abuses of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, China, as acts of genocide. Parliament opted instead on Tuesday to water down the language, and discuss concerns about human rights abuses in the region in more general terms. It...

WASHINGTON: May 3, 2021 – New Zealand’s ACT Party will be asking the New Zealand Parliament to debate a motion and vote on designating China’s atrocities against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples in East Turkistan (renamed “Xinjiang”) as genocide. The motion, put forth by ACT...

The Post asked six of Canada’s best-known clothing brands if they had investigated whether their supply chains involved forced labour in China. It’s been a tough few months for some of the world’s top apparel brands. After repudiating cotton allegedly produced with forced labour from...

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,...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her party remains undecided on whether it will support or deny the Act party's motion to vote on if the abuse of the Uyghur minority in China amounts to genocide. Act last week filed notice of a motion that would ask MPs to vote on whether human rights...

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...

Ankara [Turkey], May 2 (ANI): Xinjiang Authorities have detained an ethnic Uyghur couple as they have witnessed human rights abuses in the region, according to their daughter. Yahya Kurban, an ethnic Uyghur from Kargilik county, in Xinjiang's Kashgar prefecture, emigrated to Turkey with his...