Story Archive
2018-08-06
An official says there are no plans to release the approximately 6,000 detainees.
2018-08-03
New estimates suggest 30 percent of the region’s Uyghurs are made to undergo political ‘re-education' in camps or daily sessions.
2018-08-02
State media reports on the proposal, as well as a plan to outfit Muslim pilgrims with GPS devices.
2018-07-30
The lawmakers call on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to appeal for their unconditional release.
2018-07-27
Beijing faces high-level criticism in Washington for violating the rights of the Muslim minority.
2018-07-27
Veteran Chinese dissident Hu Jia calls for international scrutiny to protect jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti
2018-07-25
Men who escaped from a Thai detention center could face deportation to China.
2018-07-16
If the students do not take part in the campaign, they cannot re-enroll in their universities.
2018-07-16
Authorities in Xinjiang put scissors to skirts in public to enforce a ban on long skirts worn by ethnic minorities.
2018-07-05
Tursun Izchi, who was injured in the Chinese military crackdown on Uyghurs amid ethnic unrest in Urumchi, recalls events on the ninth anniversary.
2018-07-02
Officials confirm she had been held for a year after being accused of ‘religious extremism.’
2018-07-02
They are sent to facilities where conditions are reportedly overcrowded and ‘terrible.’
2018-06-29
A judicial department official confirms that authorities have a ‘target’ to meet.
2018-06-27
Former inmates and relatives describe beatings, torture and humiliation of detainees, as well as deaths from ill-health and violence.
2018-06-27
Most were elderly detainees who expired as a result of complications from high blood pressure, officials say.
2018-06-26
Reports say authorities are also recruiting dozens of armed guards to secure the facilities.
2018-06-14
A local police officer says that almost all of Yingsher village’s adult males have been detained.
2018-06-13
FIFPro calls Erfan Hezim ‘one of China’s most promising young footballers.’
2018-06-13
A prominent Uyghur exile leader says he was prevented from learning of his mother’s death for more than three weeks.
2018-06-08
Abdulreshit Seley Hajim, 65, was taken to a camp in Gulja nine months earlier and had a blunt-force head wound, his brother says.
2018-05-31
A Uyghur in Malaysia says she recently learned that her mother was detained in a political re-education camp by authorities in Xinjiang.
2018-05-30
Sources say the two men were targeted as part of a crackdown on so-called ‘two-faced’ officials.
2018-05-29
She may have been targeted for studying in a country deemed a hotbed of Muslim ‘extremism.’
2018-05-24
She is believed to be one of several detained relatives of two men who run a bakery in Egypt.
2018-05-22
The US delegation says China is engaging in ‘a reprisal against an individual.’
2018-05-21
Agreements are signed pledging to eat during the Islamic holy month.
2018-05-18
Sources say he was arrested in February after returning from a concert in Shanghai.
2018-05-14
Cadres collect information on families and indoctrinate them during their ‘visits.’
2018-05-10
Uyghurs suggest arrest of Chinese obscures fact that the Muslim group is authorities' main target.
2018-05-10
He had admitted at a ‘confession meeting’ that he took his son there to meet other children.
