All Reading
This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.
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NGOs: Thailand may be planning to deport Uyghurs to China
Thailand has moved dozens of Uyghurs from around the kingdom to a single facility in Bangkok, raising fears among NGOs that the government may deport them to China.
Until Nothing is Left: China’s Settler Corporation and its Human Rights Violations in the Uyghur Region
This report documents the human rights violations of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a state-run paramilitary organisation.
Uyghur prisoners forced to speak in Chinese during virtual visits with relatives
Uyghurs prisoners in Xinjiang are forced to speak in Mandarin and perform obvious displays of subservience to their Chinese guards in monthly video calls with relatives, Uyghurs living in exile say.
Event: Government Boarding Schools as a Tool of Genocide in the 21st Century - Uyghur and Tibetan Family Separation
The Chinese government is operating mandatory boarding schools for Uyghur children as part of its genocidal policies, in a systematic effort to separate Uyghur children from their families. This recorded discussion covers the implications of these crimes and the need for a policy response.
China exploits US social media to push its own Xinjiang narratives, report finds
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using increasingly elaborate online tactics to counter information about human rights abuses in western China’s Xinjiang region in hopes of influencing audiences across the globe, according to a new report.
Interview: ‘You have to put people over profit’
Jewish World Watch’s executive director sits down with RFA to discuss the launch of the Uyghur Forced Labor Database, which lists Western companies across a number of sectors that have been implicated as benefiting from Uyghur forced labor.
China seeks to stop UN rights chief from releasing Xinjiang report
China is asking the United Nations human rights chief to bury a highly-anticipated report on human rights violations in Xinjiang, Reuters reports.
Assessing the impact of CCP information operations related to Xinjiang
This report explores the online tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party to deny revelations or claims of human rights abuses occurring in Xinjiang.
Xi Jinping’s Xinjiang visit may signal new emphasis on the assimilation of Uyghurs
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Xinjiang signals a new emphasis on the assimilation of the Uyghurs, analysts said.
Hikvision Interrogation Solution For PRC Police
Hikvision has a custom PRC China interrogation solution that integrates with tiger chairs, metal restraining devices used by Chinese police to lock detainees' hands and feet while they are being interrogated, IVPM reported today.
Allies seek to follow U.S. lead on Xinjiang forced labor ban -U.S. official
U.S. allies appear committed to following Washington's lead banning forced labor goods from China's Xinjiang region, a senior U.S. official told Reuters, warning companies they could not maintain "deliberate ignorance" about their supply chains.
Chinese-Kazakh Writer, Businesswoman Struggles To Rebuild Life After Abuse In Xinjiang Camp
Before she was imprisoned in her native Xinjiang, Zhazira Asenqyzy was known as a poet and writer as well as a successful businesswoman. But her world was turned upside down in May 2017 when she was taken from her family home and thrown into one of Xinjiang's notorious internment camps.
Uyghur Poems From a Chinese Prison
The acclaimed poet Gulnisa Imin is serving a 17-year sentence because her work supposedly promotes “separatism.” She’s still writing.
China’s Xi, in Xinjiang, signals no change to Uyghur policy
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, on a visit this week to the Xinjiang region where his government is widely accused of oppressing predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities, showed no signs of backing off policies that have come under harsh criticism from the U.S. and many European countries.
Review of Ilham Tohti, We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
The Chinese government may be determined to silence Ilham Tohti’s voice at any cost, but the recently published book We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks pursues the opposite objective: providing a platform for the imprisoned Uyghur scholar’s research and reflections to be shared.
Nury Turkel: Will the world stand up for China's Uyghurs?
Nury Turkel, a prominent Uyghur activist in exile and chair of the US commission on international religious freedom, is a key leader in the effort to pressure China to end the repression of the Uyghurs. But is his campaign doomed to fail?
Chinese use Muslim holiday for propaganda purposes, celebrating with Uyghurs
China’s state media reported on huiju work teams of local cadres who “visited” Uyghurs bearing gifts of food and who helped them work in their fields in celebration of the holiday. State media also released a video of Uyghurs dancing in what some observers said were staged performances.
Amsterdam university VU ends controversial human rights center funded by China
The Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam will close the Cross Cultural Human Rights Center, a controversial human rights research hub funded by China, following a report about the center's financing in January, a collaboration which continued despite China's treatment of the Uyghurs and Tibetans there.
Bachelet should fix disastrous China visit by standing with victims
Michelle Bachelet twice surprised United Nations observers in recent weeks, announcing that she will not seek a second term as the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and that she will publish her long-awaited report on China before her term ends.
Who are the Uyghurs? Genocide, forced labour and endless Chinese atrocities; Dolkun Isa interview
Dolkun Isa, president of the World Uyghur Congress, discusses the history of Chinese repression in Xinjiang and his lived experiences of the system of forced assimilation, the silencing of influential Uyghur figures and China’s mass detention of Uyghurs.