From Prisoner to (Provisional) Refugee: The Story of Bagashar Malik
Another ethnic Kazakh who escaped arrest in Xinjiang obtains temporary asylum in Kazakhstan, and tel...Read More
2020-10-31
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Some 20,000 Former Camp Detainees Working at Xinjiang Factory Tied to Forced Labor
Around 20,000 former internment camp detainees are working at the Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefectur...Read More
2020-10-24
‘Music is a Very Good Way to Bring Attention to This Issue’: French Artist on Rap About Uyghurs
In recent months, the number of celebrities in the fields of the arts and sports publicly advocating...Read More
2020-10-22
Now They Come for the Uyghur Children: Thousands Sent to Jail-Like Boarding Schools
Eyewitnesses talk to Bitter Winter, and confirm that data published by scholar Adrian Zenz, unlike C...Read More
2020-10-21
Four Uyghurs Facing Persecution After Deportation by Saudi Arabia to China Identified
Saudi Arabian authorities have deported at least four Uyghurs to China over the past four years who ...Read More
2020-10-19
Is the World Finally Facing Up to China?
A debate in the British Parliament, new calls to boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, coalition...Read More
2020-10-17
Uyghur Former Volleyball Star on Crutches After Developing Kidney Condition in Xinjiang Camp
A Uyghur former high school volleyball star who was recently released from an internment camp in nor...Read More
2020-10-16
Students from Xinjiang Subjected to Disproportionate Control
Muslim students who attend universities in inland China are continuously monitored, barred from exhi...Read More
2020-10-08
‘I Wish I Could Wipe my Heart And Mind Clean’: Uyghur Former Camp Instructor
Qelbinur Sidik, 51, is one of the few people to relate their experiences working at a facility in th...Read More
2020-10-06
Uyghur Farmer Dies Ten Days After Being Sent to Internment Camp, Wife Still Held
A Uyghur farmer seized at night from his home by police three years ago and sent to internment camps...Read More
2020-10-03
China Founding Day Met by Global Protests Over Uyghurs, Tibet, Hong Kong
Hundreds of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Hong Kongers and supporters including U.S. lawmakers rallied in in...Read More
2020-10-02
China’s Persecution of the Uyghurs: A Human Rights Emergency
The situation in Xinjiang is getting worse rather than better. It is time for the international comm...Read More
2020-10-01
Study Finds 380 Camps in Xinjiang’s Still Expanding Internment Program
China has built 380 internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region since 2017, and is sti...Read More
2020-09-26
Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti’s Daughter Calls For His Release on Sixth Anniversary of His Jailing
The daughter of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti called on Wednesday for his immediate release from...Read More
2020-09-24
‘The Jewish People Do Not Want to See the Same Happen to the Uyghurs’: Israeli Activist
Anne Destiny 1 is one of the few Israelis actively campaigning against the persecution of ethnic Uyg...Read More
2020-09-16
Three Camps in Xinjiang’s Uchturpan Believed to Hold Ten Percent of County’s Uyghur Population
Three internment camps in one county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s (XUAR) Aksu (in Chin...Read More
2020-09-14
Japanese Author Details Experiences of Female Xinjiang Camp Detainees Through Manga
Can manga spread awareness of the plight of Uyghurs in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...Read More
2020-09-12
Uyghur Villagers Forgo Washing For Years Fearing Accusations of Performing Ablutions
Uyghur residents of at least one village in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) city, in northwest China’s X...Read More
2020-09-11
Uyghurs Discriminated and Abused in Inland China
Authorities across China impose draconian control measures on Muslims from Xinjiang, prohibiting the...Read More
2020-09-06
A People’s Tribunal to Investigate Allegations of Chinese Genocide Against the Uyghurs
World-famous legal expert Sir Geoffrey Nice has accepted to preside what is announced as the most th...Read More
2020-09-05
Mazars Destroyed in Xinjiang: A Cultural Genocide Continues
A study by Rian Thum shows how the most beloved Uyghur shrines are being either “museumified” or des...Read More
2020-08-27