He returned from the camps to find his family gone. Now, his story demands justice. On September 15, 2025, a video circulated on Facebook and X recounting the heartbreaking story of an Uyghur man who spent five years in aRead More →
Bangkok court pares number of prosecution witnesses to speed up proceedings. BANGKOK – A Thai court slashed the number of prosecution witnesses for the long-stalled trial of two Uyghur men incarcerated for a decade following the retaliatory bombing of aRead More →
Then, if you protest, the Chinese will arrest you. This is what happened to Kelsang, a 42-year-old man from Dêngqên County. China appears to have retaliated once again against a Tibetan dissident. First, his home was denied electricity and water.Read More →
Qasim Sidiq is believed to have been targeted for content he composed as long as 15 years ago. A well-known Uyghur poet and literature teacher who went missing in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) nearly four years agoRead More →
The cousins are among a large number of Uyghur professionals taught ‘vocational skills’ in the centers. Two Uyghurs in the iron trade who expanded their business to Kazakhstan in recent years have been detained in an internment camp in northwestRead More →
The battle lines are drawn. Europe ignores human rights concerns and finalizes “the trade deals of all trade deals with China,” US and UK try to resist. by Ruth Ingram While the democratic world pontificates over sanctions against the behemoth,Read More →
The world has understood. Through this absurd decision, the CCP is punishing her sister Rushan, for her brave campaign on behalf of the persecuted Uyghurs. by Ruth Ingram Relatives of Dr. Gulshan Abbas, the mystery of whose disappearance two yearsRead More →
China’s National People’s Congress ratified a treaty with Turkey at the weekend allowing for the forcible deportation of ethnic Uyghurs fleeing persecution by authorities in Xinjiang, with opposition lawmakers in Turkey vowing to block ratification in their own parliament. BeijingRead More →
The global Jewish community is refusing to stay silent in the face of mounting human rights atrocities perpetrated against the Uyghurs. by Ruth Ingram With Holocaust memorial day in January around the corner, and World Human Rights Day on DecemberRead More →
The European Parliament has voted in favor of a resolution that could allow the EU to target Chinese officials repressing Uyghurs in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) under newly adopted laws that allow international sanctions for human rightsRead More →
A group of lawmakers in the U.K. called on the government Wednesday to “act urgently” in holding Chinese officials accountable for rights abuses against minorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In a statement, the U.K. branch ofRead More →
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a septuagenarian Uyghur retiree who spent decades as a public servant to a lengthy jail term for attending a Muslim sermon during a wake held 13 years ago, accordingRead More →
After proofs emerged that the Chinese company developed tools for facial recognition of Uyghurs, the French world champion walked away of its advertising contract. by Massimo Introvigne Bitter Winter published on December 10 evidence that the Chinese electronic giant Huawei, in co-operationRead More →
Three who lost their loved ones tell their stories to Bitter Winter. Now, even being a member of CCP is not enough to escape detention if you are a Uyghur or Kazakh attached to your culture. by Ruth Ingram An eighty-year-oldRead More →
Leaked List of Over 2,000 Detainees Demonstrates Automated Repression A big data program for policing in China’s Xinjiang region arbitrarily selects Turkic Muslims for possible detention, Human Rights Watch said today. A leaked list of over 2,000 detainees from Aksu prefecture provided toRead More →
The U.S. announced Wednesday that it will detain all shipments containing cotton and cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)—a key paramilitary group in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)—citing forced labor abuses. The U.S.Read More →
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have removed the statue Mahmud Kashgary, one of the Turkic world’s most important scholars, according to satellite imagery. Using satellite imagery, RFA’s Uyghur Service was able to determine that Kashgary’s statue was removed sometime after Nov. 28, 2019.Read More →
Francis should build on what he says in his book by demanding justice for those oppressed by China’s brutal regime Last week Pope Francis finally broke his silence on one of the world’s worst atrocities of our time — theRead More →
One of four young Uyghur men convicted in 2015 of terror-related offenses in Indonesia has pled for help from members of his ethnic group and the international community after the other three were forcibly deported to China, saying he fears persecutionRead More →
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained hundreds of Muslim imams, according to a Uyghur linguist in exile, creating an atmosphere in which Uyghurs are “afraid of dying” because there is no one to oversee theirRead More →
A hospital for infectious diseases in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu), in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), has been turned into an internment camp as part of what some experts believe could be a system for harvesting organs fromRead More →
