Muslims around the world celebrated Eid-al-Fitr this week, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The month is normally observed through daily fasting, prayer, and community service, but in Xinjiang, many of these...
On the sidelines of the Two Sessions this week, Xinjiang Party Secretary Ma Xingrui declared that “Islam in Xinjiang needs to be Sinicised,” adding, “this is an inevitable trend.” His statements were another sign of the CCP’s...
A set of reports published this week provide more detail about the brutality of repression against Uyghur women and the pervasiveness of forced labor in Xinjiang that taints global supply chains. Accompanying these revelations...
On Eid-al-Fitr, the celebratory conclusion of the Muslim holy month Ramadan, videos of dancing Uyghurs outside of a mosque in Kashgar demonstrated, perhaps counterintuitively, the extent of religious repression in the region....
A campaign of repression against Islam is underway in Muslim-majority areas across China. While the construction of mass internment camps seemingly remains unique to Xinjiang, two new reports by The Los Angeles Times and...
On Tuesday, International Human Rights Day, spokesperson Hua Chunying mounted a familiar defense of China’s rights record at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ regular press conference: Q: It’s the Human Rights...
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...
While locally resident Uyghurs account for the majority of the estimated million or more held in...
Amid a tide of global condemnation, the Chinese government has denied, and later tried to justify,...
Several new detailed reports on extralegal detention centers in Xinjiang have shed new light on...
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has issued a report that...
An investigative report by Eva Dou, Jeremy Page, and Josh Chin of the Wall Street Journal has...
Recent months have seen an increasing amount of international attention and criticism of...
Referred to as “crimes against humanity” by rights activist Michael Caster, the...
Described by rights activist Michael Caster as “crimes against humanity,” the targeted...
Over the last year, there have been an increasing number of reports detailing the proliferation of...
A series of recent reports by journalists and research institutes—notably one filed from...
New reports, based on interviews with former detainees and data collected from official sources,...
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