US Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities Citing Rights Abuses in Xinjiang
UPDATED at 5:05 P.M. ET on 2019-10-08 The U.S. Department of Commerce has blacklisted 28 governmenta...Read More
2019-10-09
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Uyghur Language School Co-Founder Detained in Xinjiang Internment Camp
The Uyghur co-founder of a school in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who ...Read More
2019-10-08
Uyghur Exile Safely Returns to Turkey After Facing Deportation to China From Moroccan Authorities
A young Uyghur man living in exile in Turkey returned safely to Istanbul late on Wednesday after fac...Read More
2019-09-27
Interview: ‘As Soon as I Was Taken Inside, I Knew it Was a Prison’
Zumuret Dawut was born and raised in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (X...Read More
2019-09-25
Interview: ‘They Are Doing The Exact Opposite of What my Father Suggested’
Jewher Ilham, the daughter of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, is a graduate from Indiana Univers...Read More
2019-09-22
The Emblematic Case of Dr. Gulshan Abbas One Year Later
An accomplished professional disappeared in one of the detention camps called “professional schools”...Read More
2019-09-15
Reports of China’s Repression in Xinjiang ‘100 Percent True’: Jordanian Journalist
A Jordanian journalist who traveled to northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) fo...Read More
2019-09-14
China Detains Dozens in Xinjiang For Sharing Songs From Kazakhstan
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have detained dozens of ethnic minority M...Read More
2019-09-13
Former Xinjiang University President at Risk of ‘Imminent’ Execution: Amnesty International
Chinese authorities may “imminently” execute the jailed former head of Xinjiang University Tashpolat...Read More
2019-09-11
Han Teachers in Xinjiang: Save Uyghur Children!
Accounts by four teachers who witness daily CCP’s destruction of Uyghur culture and language, psycho...Read More
2019-09-10
Xinjiang Authorities Arrest Sibling Uyghur Real Estate Moguls, Jail One For Decades
Two ethnic Uyghurs who run what is widely considered the most successful real estate firm of the pas...Read More
2019-09-05
2018 Report on International Religious Freedom: China: Xinjiang
This separate section on Xinjiang is included given the scope and severity of reported religious fre...Read More
2019-06-23
2018 Report on International Religious Freedom: China (Includes Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Macau)
Since 1999, China has been designated as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) under the Internati...Read More
2019-06-23
As Many as 1,200 Uyghur Detainees Held in Gansu Prison After Secret Transfer From Xinjiang
As many as 1,200 Uyghurs are being detained in a jail in western China’s Gansu province after being ...Read More
2019-04-19
US Lawmakers Reintroduce Legislation to Sanction China Over Abuse of Uyghurs in XUAR
U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced legislation that would hold China accountable for rights abuses aga...Read More
2019-01-20
China Threatens Retaliation if US Applies Sanctions Over Uyghur Rights Abuses in Xinjiang
China’s Ambassador to the U.S. has threatened retaliation if Washington sanctions Beijing over human...Read More
2018-11-30
“Studies” in Prison: Staff Member Uncovers Details of a Xinjiang Camp
Bitter Winter continues exposing the lies by Chinese authorities about the “transformation through e...Read More
2018-11-28
Award-Winning Chinese Photographer Detained in Xinjiang: Wife
Authorities in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang have detained an award-winning documentar...Read More
2018-11-28
Xinjiang Authorities Sentence Uyghur Philanthropist to Death For Unsanctioned Hajj
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a prominent...Read More
2018-11-22
Camps for Uyghurs, “Schools” or Jails? Exclusive Report, Photos, and Footage from Bitter Winter
While China tries to defend the indefensible claiming that the transformation through education camp...Read More
2018-11-15
Xinjiang’s Kashgar University Students, Teachers Forced to Give up Muslim Dietary Restrictions
Officials at a university in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are forcing student...Read More
2018-11-12