Bipartisan legislation would push for sanctions and set up a State Department coordinator on Xinjiang.
A Uyghur in exile says his two younger brothers are among those held in the facility.
The campaign comes amid a wider move by authorities to equate halal food with religious extremism.
More than a dozen Western states criticize mass detention program that Beijing says is job training to quell extremism.
Nurtay Hajim was targeted after his school for Uyghur orphans accepted the children of political prisoners.
Rahile Dawut went missing in December and is believed held in a political ‘re-education camp.’
A Uyghur mother details how multiple detentions at the hands of Xinjiang authorities affected her family.
A student mapping the camps said denying their existence made Beijing look ‘even more suspicious.’
A police officer recounts his work as a guard at a Xinjiang "political re-education camp."
Abdukerim Rahman’s life work continues to inspire academics studying Uyghur literature.
Sources say he was targeted after producing a program about poor Uyghur students.
They call it an attempt to deceive the international community about the political 're-education camp' network ahead of a UN rights council meeting.
Shahrizat Hallilova is the latest example of athleticism among the Uyghur diaspora.
Qurban Mamut’s son says his father was targeted because he is living in exile in the US.
Bakeries in Xinjiang struggle get enough sugar under policies that claim it can be used to make explosives.
A police officer recounts his work as a guard at a Xinjiang "political re-education camp."
Staff at publishing house once headed by Abdurahman Abey says he was “implicated in separatism and religious extremism.”
