Uyghurs across the diaspora use digital platforms to maintain family and community connections—but the same communications can be transformed into tools of surveillance, profiling, and transnational repression. AI-generated. From WhatsApp groups and diaspora media to Türkiye and Syria, the Anthropic report reveals how technology expands Beijing’s repression. by Asiye Uyghur | Sep...
China’s Cross-Border Persecution Mechanism and the Systematic Isolation Facing the Uyghur Diaspora Turkistan Times, September 7 — Istanbul: On September 5, 2026, Katherine Davies, host of the Save Democracy podcast, held an important...
 ISTIQLAL – Monthly Journal of Press Publisher: East Turkistan Press and Media Association Date: August 2026 Volume: 8 | Issue: 6 SUMMARY: This August 2026 issue (Volume 8, Issue 6) of ISTIQLAL Monthly...
A school in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), Chinese propaganda image. From Weibo. Official documents trace a policy chain from preschool language instruction and boarding schools to mainland classes, vocational training, and labor...
Representative Image (File Photo/Reuters) Munich [Germany], August 31 (ANI): The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has raised fresh concerns over the fate of Uyghurs who have disappeared into what it described as a vast system of internment...
The People's Republic of China is exerting diplomatic pressure on Türkiye by comparing the Uyghur issue in East Turkistan with Türkiye's terrorism problem. Prof. Dr. Varis Çakan argues that the two cases are entirely different historically and sociologically, and that China is using this...
Press Release – For immediate Release 30 August 2026 | World Uyghur Congress The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. On this day, we remember all persons worldwide who have...
Turkistan Times | August 29, 2026 BUENOS AIRES — Imprisoned Uyghur scholar, writer, and former editor at the state-run Xinjiang Education Press, Yalqun Rozi, has been honored with the prestigious 2026 Graciela Fernández Meijide Award...
August 29, 2026 | Staff Writer | Save Uyghur, Statements August 31, 2026August 31 marks the fourth anniversary of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) landmark assessment of human rights...
Screenshot from China Daily Online's video, shared via the “We are China” account on Facebook, detailing the automation of cotton production in the Xinjiang region. Fair use. Uyghur farmers must transfer their labor and land to the...
A Uyghur man outside of the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar city in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, July 13, 2023. © 2023 Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images Forced Labor Bans, UN Follow Up Needed to Address Repression August 27, 2026, HRW (New York) – The Chinese government’s decade-long...
The web of control. AI-generated. A governing model tested in Uyghur homes now shapes overseas networks, business ties, cultural outreach, and policing arrangements worldwide. by Asiye Uyghur | Aug 26, 2026 | Op-eds China The...
Ethnic Uyghur demonstrators take part in a protest against China (File Photo/Reuters)   Munich [Germany], August 22 (ANI): New concerns over the treatment of Uyghurs in China and the alleged transnational repression of Uyghur...
Aug 21, 2026, CRG Review By Leila Isa Edited by Max Kabjian and Leïla Van Glabeke, Peer Reviewed by Sophie Bright and Alex Bagdade Introduction In 1999, a young Uyghur man called Abdullah argued with his local Imam after...
Australian Senator Dean Smith Calls for Magnitsky-Style Sanctions Against Chinese Authorities Responsible for Transnational Repression Canberra: Senator Dean Smith, Co-Chair of the Australian Parliamentary Group for Tibet, raised concerns...
By SCF -August 21, 2026 China’s growing influence in Turkey’s media landscape is making it increasingly difficult for Uyghur journalists and activists to draw attention to human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a new report. The press freedom group said...
Turkistan Times, 20 August 2026: At the 11th International Arabic Book Fair in Istanbul, East Turkistan organizations and media outlets highlighted the situation in East Turkistan, the preservation of Uyghur culture and identity, and the...
By Alex Bagdade On Aug 20, 2026 | The McGill International Review In January 2023, Mehmet Tohti, a Uyghur Canadian activist, answered a call that appeared to come from Hong Kong. Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights...
Activists from Amnesty International hold placards as they march during a demonstration in support of the Uyghurs, on the sidelines of the Chinese President's two-day state visit in France, in Toulouse, south-western France, on May 6,...
Writing in Foreign Policy, VOC Senior Fellow in China studies, Dr. Adrian Zenz, and researcher Muetter Tohti explore how Beijing is pioneering new tools of transnational repression. Aug 12, 2026  |Adrian Zenz | VOC...