Before The Camps: The Uyghur Protests Beijing Didn’t Want You To See (Photo: On Jan 17, 2026, Demonstrators, including Uyghurs, gather outside Royal Mint Court to protest against plans to open new Chinese mega-embassy) Image Credit: Getty
In March 2008, Uyghur protests broke out in Xinjiang after the death of businessman Mutallip Hajim in police custody. Protesters demanded...
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Ethnic Uighur demonstrators take part in a protest against China, in Istanbul (File Photo/ Reuters)
Washington DC [US], March 6 (ANI): The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has raised alarm over recent reports that Uyghur Muslims in East...
2026-03-07 :Date
Uyghur Research Institute
6 March 2026
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) officially released its latest annual research findings, the "2026 Annual Report," in Washington, D.C., in March 2026. This...
2026-03-06 :Date
March 5, 2026, By Turkistan Times Staff
(Based on reports from Emily Brooks, The Hill & Social Media)
WASHINGTON D.C. — In a significant moment for the Uyghur community, Ziba Murat attended the 2026 State of the Union address on...
2026-03-05 :Date
Yalqun Rozi, a son of the Uyghur people currently in a Chinese prison, has been honored with an international award as a symbol of resistance against authoritarianism.
Turkistan Times, February 27, 2026 / Istanbul: The Center for the...
2026-03-03 :Date
TurkistanTimes: On March 1, 2026, the Algerian national newspaper El Moudjahid published an article by journalist Amel Zemouri (A.Z.) titled "The Id Kah Mosque: Spiritual Heart of the Uyghurs and Symbol of Islam in China". The article paints a profoundly fabricated, utopian picture of the historic...
2026-03-03 :Date
United Nations logo (Photo: X/@UN)
Geneva [Switzerland], March 2 (ANI):
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has expressed grave concern over the fate and whereabouts of 40 Uyghur Muslim men who...
2026-03-03 :Date
Thai officials outside the immigration detention center at the Immigration Bureau in Bangkok, February 27, 2025. © 2025 Narong Sangnak/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Unfettered Access Needed to 40 Men Returned One Year Ago
Yalkun Uluyol - China...
2026-03-03 :Date
A year after Thailand returned 40 Uyghur men to China, UN experts warn that their fate remains unknown amid growing fears of transnational repression.
By Sri Lanka Guardian - February 27, 2026
A year after 40 Uyghur Muslim men were...
2026-03-01 :Date
This picture taken on July 13, 2023, shows people passing a torn propaganda poster comparing ethnic unity to the “lifeline of the people” in Kashgar, northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. Chinese travellers throng the bazaars of old...
2026-02-28 :Date
Japanese lawmakers and Uyghur activists attend a Japan Uyghur Association event in Tokyo to address Chinese government’s atrocity crimes in Xinjiang, February 25, 2026. © 2026 Teppei Kasai/Human Rights Watch
Import Restrictions Protect Workers’ Rights, Enhance Corporate...
2026-02-28 :Date
Thai immigration department trucks carrying 40 ethnic Uyghurs, with their windows covered with black cloth, leave the main immigration detention center in Bangkok on Feb. 27, 2025. A year later, all 40 have vanished, said Human Rights...
2026-02-28 :Date
Turkistan Times, 26 February 2026, Istanbul: The plight of Uyghurs trapped for years in the political asylum system in the United States is becoming increasingly critical. As indicated in a report prepared by Dr. Henryk Szadziewski for the...
2026-02-26 :Date
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By Allison Raley and Nikita Kulkarni
February 25, 2026, Total Retail
U.S. retailers now face a heightened antislavery risk at the border. Picture a routine day at a busy port. An inspector opens...
2026-02-25 :Date
GENEVA — February 24, 2026 — As the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council convenes in Geneva, a powerful coalition of 26 civil society organizations, including the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and the World...
2026-02-25 :Date
“If I call my family, there will be problems.”
24 February 2026
The New Humanitarian
In 2017, Ablajan, a Uyghur living in the United States, called his parents in Khotan, a city in the south of the Uyghur homeland. The conversation ended abruptly when his mother instructed him not to...
2026-02-24 :Date
Uyghur children play at a square where a propaganda poster showing Han Chinese with the words "Hotan City Unity New Village Unity Square". (AP: Andy Wong )
In a video shared on X, Residents of East Turkistan, including a student,...
2026-02-23 :Date
A dharma wheel and Chinese flag at Ganden Sumtsenling Tibetan Buddhist monastery, Shangri-La, China.
Credit: Depositphotos
China’s linguistic assimilation campaign continues to advance.
By Sophie RichardsonFebruary 21, 2026, The...
2026-02-22 :Date
Kamile Wayit, a college student at a university in China’s Henan province, was detained by police in December 2022 after returning to Xinjiang on winter break. (Photo courtesy of Kewser Wayit)
Uyghur university student Kamile Wayit was...
2026-02-21 :Date
The “lonely Uyghur” is attacked by Chinese personnel.
On February 14, the activist was brutally attacked by Chinese security personnel, in an act reminiscent of persecution in East Turkestan.
by Abdurehim Gheni...
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