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China: Travel for Uyghurs Heavily Restricted
Feb 3, 2025
Human Rights Watch
China: Travel for Uyghurs Heavily Restricted
Feb 3, 2025
Human Rights Watch

The Chinese government is maintaining severe restrictions, conditions, and controls on Uyghurs who seek to travel abroad in violation of their internationally protected right to leave the country, in a new report from Human Rights Watch.

Feb 3, 2025
Human Rights Watch
Urgent Appeal for the Immediate Release of Ilham Tohti
Sep 18, 2024
Amnesty International
Urgent Appeal for the Immediate Release of Ilham Tohti
Sep 18, 2024
Amnesty International

Ilham Tohti, a renowned Uyghur intellectual, has spent a decade unjustly imprisoned for his peaceful advocacy. His calls for understanding and dialogue between Uyghurs and Han Chinese were met with a life sentence on baseless charges of “separatism”.

Sep 18, 2024
Amnesty International
Uyghur Race as the Enemy: China’s Legalized Authoritarian Oppression & Mass Imprisonment
Aug 20, 2024
Yale University
Uyghur Race as the Enemy: China’s Legalized Authoritarian Oppression & Mass Imprisonment
Aug 20, 2024
Yale University

This report explores how China’s systematic, large-scale imprisonment of Uyghurs not only amounts to a crime against humanity, but also dangerous lawfare at mass scale.

Aug 20, 2024
Yale University
China: Hundreds of Uyghur Village Names Change
Jun 18, 2024
Human Rights Watch
China: Hundreds of Uyghur Village Names Change
Jun 18, 2024
Human Rights Watch

Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology.

Jun 18, 2024
Human Rights Watch
Asleep at the Wheel - Car Companies’ Complicity in Forced Labour in China
Feb 1, 2024
Human Rights Watch
Asleep at the Wheel - Car Companies’ Complicity in Forced Labour in China
Feb 1, 2024
Human Rights Watch

In this report, Human Rights Watch outlines how global carmakers are failing to minimize the risk of Uyghur forced labor being used in their aluminum supply chains.

Feb 1, 2024
Human Rights Watch
Policing East Turkistan: Mapping Police and Security Forces in the Uyghur Region
Dec 13, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Policing East Turkistan: Mapping Police and Security Forces in the Uyghur Region
Dec 13, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project

This report explores the institutions of policing in Xinjiang, helping to build a fuller picture of the systematic and Party-state-sponsored human rights atrocities perpetrated against Uyghurs and other Turkic people.

Dec 13, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Tailoring Responsibility: Tracing Apparel Supply Chains from the Uyghur Region to Europe
Dec 6, 2023
Helena Kennedy Centre
Tailoring Responsibility: Tracing Apparel Supply Chains from the Uyghur Region to Europe
Dec 6, 2023
Helena Kennedy Centre

This report provides critical insight into how forced labour-made apparel is moving from the Uyghur Region into high-street and high-end brands operating and selling within the EU.

Dec 6, 2023
Helena Kennedy Centre
China: Mosques Shuttered, Razed, Altered in Muslim Areas
Nov 22, 2023
Human Rights Watch
China: Mosques Shuttered, Razed, Altered in Muslim Areas
Nov 22, 2023
Human Rights Watch

The Chinese government is significantly reducing the number of mosques in Ningxia and Gansu provinces under its “mosque consolidation” policy, in violation of the right to freedom of religion, Human Rights Watch said today.

Nov 22, 2023
Human Rights Watch
How Uyghur Forced Labor Makes Seafood That Ends Up in School Lunches
Nov 21, 2023
Politico
How Uyghur Forced Labor Makes Seafood That Ends Up in School Lunches
Nov 21, 2023
Politico

Uyghurs and North Koreans are forced to work in Chinese seafood processing plants. But the United States government purchases millions of dollars of this seafood for the military and school lunches.

Nov 21, 2023
Politico
Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan
Aug 30, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan
Aug 30, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project

This new report highlights the troubling industry of organized travel to the Uyghur region, with companies continuing to offer tours despite ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide.

Aug 30, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project
The Complicity of Heritage: Cultural Heritage and Genocide in the Uyghur Region
Feb 9, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project
The Complicity of Heritage: Cultural Heritage and Genocide in the Uyghur Region
Feb 9, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project

This report highlights how China’s actions constitute what UNESCO calls “strategic cultural cleansing”, through systematic destruction of cultural heritage and targeting people on the basis of their ethnic affiliation.

Feb 9, 2023
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Driving Force - Automotive Supply Chains and Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region
Dec 12, 2022
Helena Kennedy Centre
Driving Force - Automotive Supply Chains and Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region
Dec 12, 2022
Helena Kennedy Centre

This report is the result of a six-month investigation analysing publicly available documents, which revealed massive and expanding links between western car brands and Uyghur abuses.

Dec 12, 2022
Helena Kennedy Centre
Passively Funding Crimes Against Humanity
Dec 5, 2022
Hong Kong Watch
Passively Funding Crimes Against Humanity
Dec 5, 2022
Hong Kong Watch

This report by Hong Kong Watch explores how many firms on three major global index funds actively use Uyghur forced labor or source from suppliers that do.

Dec 5, 2022
Hong Kong Watch
Commission on China - Annual Report 2022
Nov 16, 2022
Congressional Executive Commission on China
Commission on China - Annual Report 2022
Nov 16, 2022
Congressional Executive Commission on China

This year’s report documents the mass persecution that punctures the “Chinese human rights” narrative that Xi Jinping attempts to sell to the world.

Nov 16, 2022
Congressional Executive Commission on China
Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriage
Nov 16, 2022
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriage
Nov 16, 2022
Uyghur Human Rights Project

This report examines the state-sponsored campaign of forcefully assimilating Uyghurs through coerced inter-ethnic marriages between Han men and Uyghur women.

Nov 16, 2022
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Breaking Down the U.N.’s Report on Xinjiang
Sep 15, 2022
Lawfare
Breaking Down the U.N.’s Report on Xinjiang
Sep 15, 2022
Lawfare

This review offers a comprehensive breakdown of the key findings within the report on Chinese government abuses in Xinjiang and its implications.

Sep 15, 2022
Lawfare
OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang
Aug 31, 2022
United Nations
OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang
Aug 31, 2022
United Nations

"Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR in the context of the Government’s application of counter-’extremism’ strategies,” the U.N. office said in the report.

Aug 31, 2022
United Nations
Until Nothing is Left: China’s Settler Corporation  and its Human Rights Violations in the Uyghur Region
Jul 26, 2022
Helena Kennedy Centre
Until Nothing is Left: China’s Settler Corporation and its Human Rights Violations in the Uyghur Region
Jul 26, 2022
Helena Kennedy Centre

This report documents the human rights violations of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a state-run paramilitary organisation.

Jul 26, 2022
Helena Kennedy Centre
Assessing the impact of CCP information operations related to Xinjiang
Jul 20, 2022
ASPI
Assessing the impact of CCP information operations related to Xinjiang
Jul 20, 2022
ASPI

This report explores the online tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party to deny revelations or claims of human rights abuses occurring in Xinjiang.

Jul 20, 2022
ASPI
Cultivating friendly forces: The Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations in the Xinjiang Diaspora
Jul 6, 2022
ASPI
Cultivating friendly forces: The Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations in the Xinjiang Diaspora
Jul 6, 2022
ASPI

This report explores how the CCP’s united front system is used to monitor the Uyghur diaspora and counter criticism of its policies in Xinjiang.

Jul 6, 2022
ASPI
China Destroyed Muslim Culture In This Ancient City — Then Turned It Into Disneyland
Jun 30, 2022
Buzzfeed News
China Destroyed Muslim Culture In This Ancient City — Then Turned It Into Disneyland
Jun 30, 2022
Buzzfeed News

The government’s campaign in Kashgar began with CCTV cameras watching people pray. Now it features tourists taking Instagram selfies.

Jun 30, 2022
Buzzfeed News
US ban on imports from China's Xinjiang region takes effect
Jun 21, 2022
BBC
US ban on imports from China's Xinjiang region takes effect
Jun 21, 2022
BBC

Tough new US regulations on the import of goods from the Xinjiang region of China have come into effect under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).

Jun 21, 2022
BBC
How Vinyl Flooring Made With Uyghur Forced Labor Ends Up at Big Box Stores
Jun 14, 2022
The Intercept
How Vinyl Flooring Made With Uyghur Forced Labor Ends Up at Big Box Stores
Jun 14, 2022
The Intercept

A new report details the toll taken by the flooring industry, painting a devastating picture of oppression and pollution in the Uyghur region.

Jun 14, 2022
The Intercept
The faces of China’s detention camps in Xinjiang
May 24, 2022
ICIJ
The faces of China’s detention camps in Xinjiang
May 24, 2022
ICIJ

A new leak of Chinese government records reveals thousands of mug shots of Uyghurs, photos from inside the internment camps, and new details of the national mass detention program.

May 24, 2022
ICIJ
Xinjiang Police Files: Inside a Chinese internment camp
May 24, 2022
BBC
Xinjiang Police Files: Inside a Chinese internment camp
May 24, 2022
BBC

A giant cache of secret documents reveals the highly coercive and potentially lethal systems of control used against minority groups in China’s internment camps.

May 24, 2022
BBC
The “Xinjiang Papers”: How Xi Jinping commands Chinese policy
May 19, 2022
University of Sheffield
The “Xinjiang Papers”: How Xi Jinping commands Chinese policy
May 19, 2022
University of Sheffield

This report shows how the Xinjiang papers reveal the centralised decision-making behind the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

May 19, 2022
University of Sheffield
Great Wall of Steel: China’s Global Campaign to Suppress the Uyghurs
Apr 25, 2022
Wilson Center
Great Wall of Steel: China’s Global Campaign to Suppress the Uyghurs
Apr 25, 2022
Wilson Center

This report posits that the focus on how Uyghurs are treated within China ignores China’s harassment of Uyghurs and Kazakhs living abroad.

Apr 25, 2022
Wilson Center
Beyond Silence: Transnational Repression of Uyghurs
Mar 24, 2022
Uyghur Human Rights Project
Beyond Silence: Transnational Repression of Uyghurs
Mar 24, 2022
Uyghur Human Rights Project

This report assesses the growing scale of repression of Uyghurs in the Arab states as China’s relations there have strengthened.

Mar 24, 2022
Uyghur Human Rights Project
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
Mar 1, 2022
Verso Books
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
Mar 1, 2022
Verso Books

This book presents a collection of imprisoned Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti’s words on justice, the history of Xinjiang and the plight of China’s Muslim minorities.

Mar 1, 2022
Verso Books
The Uyghur Tribunal Delivers Its Judgment
Dec 9, 2021
Uyghur Tribunal
The Uyghur Tribunal Delivers Its Judgment
Dec 9, 2021
Uyghur Tribunal

The Uyghur Tribunal, having reviewed evidenced since September 2020, reaches a judgment on whether international crimes are proved to have been committed by the PRC.

Dec 9, 2021
Uyghur Tribunal
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Feb 3, 2025
Radio Free Asia
China restricts travel for Uyghurs with onerous requirements: report
Feb 3, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Feb 3, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 28, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Uyghur historian sentenced again - this time to life in prison
Jan 28, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 28, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 23, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Thailand says ‘no policy’ to deport 48 detained Uyghurs to China
Jan 23, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 23, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 21, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Authorities shut down Uyghur farmers' water wells in southern Xinjiang
Jan 21, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 21, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 16, 2025
Radio Free Asia
China expands orphanage-style boarding schools for Uyghur children
Jan 16, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 16, 2025
Radio Free Asia
Jan 7, 2025
BBC
Shein lawyer refuses to say if it uses Chinese cotton
Jan 7, 2025
BBC
Jan 7, 2025
BBC
Dec 31, 2024
Radio Free Asia
Uyghur group welcomes key laws passed in US defense bill
Dec 31, 2024
Radio Free Asia
Dec 31, 2024
Radio Free Asia
Dec 27, 2024
Radio Free Asia
China’s United Front takes Taiwanese youth on Xinjiang trips
Dec 27, 2024
Radio Free Asia
Dec 27, 2024
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