Last week’s lethal fire in Urumqi, whose death toll is widely believed to have been exacerbated by the government’s pandemic control policies, set off a nationwide wave of mourning gatherings and anti-lockdown protests. Western...
China has been widely accused of trying to “distract” the world from human rights violations perpetrated against Uyghurs by choosing a Uyghur athlete to light the Olympic flame. Dilnigar Ilhamjan, also known by the Sinicized...
Several new reports focusing on the invasive ways that the Chinese government is policing the bodies and lives of Uyghurs in the region have provided yet more evidence of ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide in Xinjiang....
Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti has been serving a life sentence for separatism since 2014. Widely known during his career as a moderate voice aiming for productive dialogue between Uyghurs and Han within China, the scholar and...
Five years after his arrest on charges of inciting separatism, Tashi Wangchuk, an advocate for Tibetan-language education, has been released from prison. He attempted to use legal avenues to reinstitute Tibetan-language...
The Associated Press’ Huizhong Wu reports that at least 23 people have been detained following protests across Inner Mongolia against recently announced language education reforms. The new policies would gradually replace...
As global concern is rising over the detention of between 800,000 to two million Uyghurs and other...
As evidence mounts of detention camps holding up to one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims...
CDT translation contributor Alicia translates a propaganda song that she found to be ubiquitous...
At Foreign Affairs, Tibetan Studies professor Gray Tuttle analyzes ethnic prejudice and racism in...
Laura Zhou at South China Morning Post reports criticism of the “fake” Mongolian...
In order to promote assimilation, authorities plan to send a steady flow of Uyghurs to live and...
In an adaptation from his book The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History at The Los Angeles Review of...
The AP reports that nine suspected terrorists were shot dead near Hotan, Xinjiang on Friday after...
As news comes of the year’s second Tibetan self-immolation and another violent clash in...
Continuing his series of observations from the western frontier province of Xinjiang, Graham Adams (a pseudonym used to protect the author’s identity) details the measures taken by authorities to suppress Uyghur identity:...
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