Uyghur Genocide

A Chinese-speaking hacking group targeted Uyghurs with fake UN documents laced with malware, and a website purporting to represent a human rights organization.

An independent tribunal in London began hearing testimony from witnesses and experts on Friday to determine whether the Chinese government has committed genocide in the Xinjiang region — in proceedings Beijing has called a “farce” and a “special machine producing lies.” The Uyghur Tribunal,...

Exiled Uyghur scholar Abduweli Ayup tells Bitter Winter how his niece died in jail just because of being his relative and cooperating with him.

By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The liberal opposition mayor of Budapest announced on Wednesday he would rename streets in the Hungarian capital near a planned campus of a Chinese university to commemorate alleged human rights abuses by Beijing. One street will be named after the Dalai...

Beijing’s incendiary response to “interference in its internal affairs” as the People’s Tribunal prepares to open. The gloves are off with only days to go before an investigation is launched in the UK into alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in North West China. Beijing has fired a...

Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin should be excluded from the Tokyo Games, according to activists who have a plan for the International Olympics Committee to humiliate "truly brutal dictators" who want to attend the event. "The Olympics are something of...

The brother of World Uyghur Congress president Dolkun Isa has been jailed for life by authorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a police officer from the region told RFA. Hushtar Isa, based in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu), was reportedly detained in 1998 and sentenced to...

Australia and New Zealand on Monday expressed grave concerns over developments in Hong Kong and the human rights situation in the Xinjiang region of China, as the two nations sought to get in lockstep over their biggest trading partner. In the first face-to-face meeting between heads of both...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority in China, living in Xinjiang province at a crossroads of culture and empire. Today it's estimated that more than 1 million Uyghur people have been detained in camps, camps where they have been subjected to torture, forced labor,...