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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I and others stand with Uyghurs separated from their beloved children. We won’t back down until every Uyghur child is free to dream again. Follow me on Twitter .
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 suffering of the Uyghurs is to be made invisible". According to historical records, "On July 5, 2009, hundreds of Uyghurs protested in Urumqi, the capital of East Turkestan/Xinjiang.
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 ...
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 ...