Aziz's mother Hepizikhan visited London in 2011, before she was detained in a camp Gem O'ReillyBBC News, 1 March 2025 Aziz Isa Elkun, from north London, spent seven years not knowing whether his mother was alive. On a random day in April last year, he received an anonymous video call from her, which he said was monitored by the Chinese Foreign Affairs Department. Aziz, 54, said his mother...
One of the people the journalist Léa Polverini interviewed in Kyrgyzstan. According to estimates, more than one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and others have been locked up in camps and prisons in Xinjiang in the last decade. Photo:...
WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Jeanne Shaheen (R-N.H.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.), today released the following statement on...
Levent Kenez/Stockholm February 25, 2025, Nordic Monitor A recent report by Turkey’s National Intelligence Academy analyzes China’s growing influence and its potential impact on Ankara’s foreign policy. Emphasizing the need for a...
The TikTok app is displayed on an iPhone screen on 24 April 2024 in Miami, Florida (AFP) By Imran Mulla MEE  ,24 February 2025 TikTok, the Chinese social media giant, is supporting a Muslim Women's Network UK event, a move branded...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers inspect shipment of hair products from China at the port of New York/Newark on July 1, 2020. (CBP) By Kenneth Rapoza February 24, 2025, NTD U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed on Feb. 18 that more goods produced by forced labor...
Police officers stand at the entrance of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Apr. 23, 2021. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) Their arrests occurred at a time when authorities...
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) will host a crucial dialogue session on Uyghurs at RightsCon, the global platform addressing human rights in the digital age. Feb 24, 2025, The Tribune Taipei [Taiwan], February 24 (ANI): The World Uyghur...
Türkiye’s Deputy Minister of Trade, Mahmut Gurcan (right), inspects Turkish products showcased for the Chinese market alongside Türkiye’s Ambassador to Beijing, Ismail Hakki Musa, at the newly opened China-Türkiye Trade Center in...
A demonstrator in Istanbul denounces China's treatment of ethnic Uighur Muslims.Ozan Kose / AFP Feb 21, 2025, The Times of Israel The ongoing repression of Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region has been one of the gravest human...
Washington, D.C. — February 21, 2025 For Immediate Release Save Uyghur Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign Condemns China’s Forced Assimilation of Uyghur Children on International Mother Language Day On International Mother Language Day, Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign...
Ghojaniyaz Yollugh Tekin's collaborative research report and his collection of articles. Ghojaniyaz Yollugh Tekin was jailed in late 2018 for saying that Uyghurs are part of the Turkic world. By Shohret Hoshur for RFA...
Aziz Isa ElkunResearch Affiliate at SOAS, University of Londonaziz.isaa@gmail.com | www.azizisa.org/en Mar 2, 2021Since 2014, the Chinese government has started building a massive network of internment camps or “modern high-tech...
Yidiresi Aishan's family have campaigned for him not be deported to China, where he would be placed in extreme danger [Getty] The New Arab Staff & Agencies 21 February, 2025 Morocco has overturned the deportation...
Uyghur PEN poster for International Mother Language Day. From X. The “Lonely Uyghur” protester, well-known to “Bitter Winter” readers, celebrates in his own way the day established to protect endangered languages. by...
Uyghur human rights activist Idris Hasan (right) with Omer Kanat, executive director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, Feb. 14, 2025. (Omer Kanat via Facebook) Human rights activist Idris Hasan was detained in 2021 and had been...
A Uyghur woman from Tashkent, Uzbekistan holds up a photo of her mentor and his students. Cornell student Zilala Mamat '27 is working to document Uyghur history by visiting the region, meeting people and digitizing documents, photos, memos...
Jinan University, Guangzhou campus. (Jinan University website photo) Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College also banned Keoni Everington Taiwan News, Staff Writer Feb. 20, 2025  TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Ministry of...
India Narrative, Feb. 19 2025 The 17th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy got underway at the Centre International de Conferences Geneve (CICG), bringing together human rights defenders, campaigners, and former political...
Uyghur refugees in hunger strike in a Thailand detention center. Source: World Uyghur Congress. While 48 refugees in Thailand are threated with forced repatriation, transnational repression invent new ways to reach the Chinese...