Xinjiang

Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on June 17 expressed concern over the “continued violations of cultural and other rights” in Tibet and called for the “release …

China continues to hold over half a million Uyghurs in prisons or detention facilities and has intensified its oppression of this ethnic group, contrary to Beijing’s claims that the northwestern …

The Chinese government has increasingly imposed arbitrary restrictions on people’s internationally protected right to leave the country. According to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), Chinese authorities need people …

The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has issued a powerful statement calling on the Irish government to take a stand against China’s policies in Xinjiang. This came in the …

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, the Human …

Human rights activists and international experts have strongly criticised China’s newly developed AI platform, DeepSeek, after concerns arose regarding its role in spreading state propaganda, censoring sensitive subjects, and gathering …

Orphanage-style boarding schools for Uyghur children whose parents were detained by Xinjiang authorities remain open and are even expanding, Radio Free Asia reported. According to reports, these schools, which have …

Lawyers representing the campaign group Stop Uyghur Genocide (SUG) have presented a dossier of evidence to Shein’s legal team, accusing the fashion giant of being complicit in supply chain abuses …

China has reportedly launched an effort to attract young people from Taiwan to join heavily subsidised tours to Xinjiang, hoping to divert attention from the region’s severe human rights abuses, …

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) welcomed Volkswagen’s (VW) announcement that it will sell its plant in East Turkistan, a region in which the WUC has long campaigned against the company’s …

In a pivotal moment for the Uyghur community, the World Uyghur Congress has elected a new leadership team during its recent General Assembly. Rushan Abbas has been appointed as the …

A coalition of Western nations have called on China to free all arbitrarily detained Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans and to allow independent human rights observers access to the regions for …

The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) strongly condemned the participation of international media outlets in the 6th World Media Summit (WMS) held in Urumqi, Xinjiang. The ETGE argued that …

The Foreign Affairs and Security Minister of the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, Salih Hudayar, called out the lack of global attention on the human rights crisis in China’s Xinjiang province, and …

Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights watchdog, in a recent statement lamented the Chinese government for its human rights abuses in Xinjiang, claiming that the authorities have been …

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Xinjiang province of China, has drawn criticism from global human rights advocates as both the Democratic and Republican platforms for the 2024 US elections fail …

A recent report by Yale University has highlighted the precarious living conditions of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) under Chinese repression. Uyghurs have been facing deteriorating …

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday announced the expansion of the entity list of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) to “fight the exploitation and …

Human rights advocates have stressed the need for solidarity and measures to ensure accountability for human rights violations in Xinjiang and Tibet, requiring urgent international attention and action. The situation …

Hundreds of mosques and Islamic shrines have been destroyed by China in recent years, as Beijing aims to erase the Islamic culture associated with the Xinjiang province and forcefully assimilate …

US politician and Vice President of the House Armed Services Committee Republicans, Rob Wittman, has expressed his concerns about China’s actions on African workers and Uyghur Muslims, terming the atrocities …