Uyghurs Abroad Protest Xinjiang Crackdown
As a long-running security crackdown by the Chinese government continues to target members of the...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 19, 2018
As a long-running security crackdown by the Chinese government continues to target members of the...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Aug 6, 2009
The Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief looks at the reactions of countries in the Middle East to the recent violence in Xinjiang: In light of the recent events in Xinjiang, observers of China’s increasingly expanding and...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Dec 4, 2019
Following the U.S. Senate’s September passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Act, which some commentators saw as a potential watershed moment in the global stand against the ongoing crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the U.S....
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Oct 16, 2019
The ongoing crackdown by the Xi administration in the Xinjiang region has been described as an effort to “re-engineer” the Uyghur identity and as a form of “cultural genocide.” Officially launched in 2014, the steadily...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Sep 23, 2019
The Guardian’s Lily Kuo reports on recently emerged drone footage of hundreds of blindfolded and shackled prisoners being led from a train by police. The footage, which was posted on YouTube last week, is believed to have...
Read MorePosted by Grace | Oct 18, 2018
With international backlash growing over reports that as many as one million Muslims in Xinjiang...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Feb 1, 2018
Responding to rising incidents of violence in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, authorities in 2014...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Nov 28, 2014
Despite the yearlong crackdown on terrorism in Xinjiang that has been steadily intensifying since...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Jul 25, 2014
New transportation regulations in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi have heightened security...
Read MorePosted by Natalie Ornell | Jun 30, 2013
The BBC reports that following days of unrest in the Xinjiang region that included an attack on a police station in Hotan on Friday, Chinese officials have increased operations by enacting a twenty-four hour patrol of the...
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