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A new book by Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja details her efforts to expose the oppression of her minority, Muslim community by Chinese authorities. Her work to reveal the truth almost got her fam… ...
Governments around the world have sent Uyghur asylum-seekers back to China, to suffer the worst. This is because China has dangled financial inducements before those governments. Elimä’s work on ...
Mr. Izgil is the author of the forthcoming book “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide,” from which this essay is adapted. About seven years ago ...
The dehumanizing experience of being Uyghur in Xinjiang is at the center of The Backstreets, as well as much of Tursun’s other works of fiction and poetry.Sadly, the Kafkaesque nature of his ...
Uyghurs protest outside the White House July 28, 2024, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 2014 Yarkand Massacre. ... “The U.S. holds significant diplomatic and economic leverage that can ...
The Uyghur Region’s share of the global market for polysilicon, a key component in solar panels, has also fallen, from 45% to 35% in just a couple of years. However, this law is not enough.
The Uyghurs will remain outsiders to the global outrage machine, and some injustices will be considered less unjust than others. This article originally misspelled Sang Hea Kil’s name.
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.
A group of Uyghur men who were detained in Thailand over a decade ago say that the Thai government is preparing to deport them to China, alarming activists and family members who say the men are ...
Foreign officials who enable the forced return of Uyghurs and other ethnic or religious groups to China face visa restrictions in the United States, Sec. of State Marco Rubio announced Friday.
Three Uyghur men who had spent over a decade in Thai detention were safely resettled in Canada in April, Thai lawmakers and activists confirmed, after 40 other Uyghurs were sent to China in ...