On May 12, 2025, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged the US Congress to reverse the shutdown of the Uyghur language service of Radio Free Asia (RFA), warning that its closure would severely undermine the global community’s access to independent information from East Turkistan — a region the Chinese authorities refer to as "Xinjiang."
RSF editorial director Anne Bocandé stated, “Despite...
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Turkistan Times / Istanbul – May 5, 2025 – A recent report by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and related international investigations have revealed that the Chinese regime's oppression of Uyghurs is not confined to East Turkistan but...
2025-05-05 :Date
Uyghur Research Institute | Editor: Dr. Abdurehim Dolet
Pakistan's foreign policy is a struggle to maintain balance amidst complex and often contradictory factors, including regional security threats, economic dependence, and the...
2025-05-05 :Date
A view of the training course. From Weibo.
A training course told present and future imams that “Sinicizing” the religion means putting Xi Jinping’s thought at the center of Islamic activities.
by Ma Guangyao
Bitter Winter,...
2025-05-04 :Date
The receptionist desk sits empty at Radio Free Asia, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Rod Lamkey/AP/FR172078
May 2, 202, NPR
Emily Feng
Radio Free Asia is laying off about 90 percent of its staff and is...
2025-05-03 :Date
Radio Free Asia (RFA) logo at its headquarters in Washington, DC, the US. Photo: Gemunu Amarasinghe/Radio Free Asia/AFP.
Radio Free Asia — created by the United States with a mission to deliver news in countries without free media — said it will terminate 280 staff members in Washington,...
2025-05-03 :Date
Campaign for Uyghurs founder and executive cirector Rushan Abbas's book "Unbroken" (Courtesy of Rushan Abbas)
Leader of the Campaign for Uyghurs set to release a memoir that explores her personal story and her struggle against...
2025-05-01 :Date
Bangkok Remand PrisonBangkok Post, 29 April 2025
The People's Empowerment Foundation has expressed serious concerns over the plight of seven Uyghur people who are currently in jail in Thailand.
Chalida Tajaroensuk, chairperson of the...
2025-04-29 :Date
Human rights activists at a 2021 demonstration organized by the World Uyghur Congress, Free Tibet and more in London. Image: Belinda Jiao/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Citizen Lab found the advocates, including some featured...
2025-04-29 :Date
Trio in Canada after decade in detention
Bangkok Post, April 28 2025
The remaining three Uyghurs held at Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre have been transferred for resettlement in a third country, effectively ending a diplomatic...
2025-04-28 :Date
The United Nations Office at Geneva, often called the "capital of peace," was designed as a beacon of diplomacy to prevent future global conflicts. Yet for Uyghur and other human rights activists, it has increasingly become a place of risk rather than refuge.
In March 2024, fifteen activists chose...
2025-04-28 :Date
The polytetrahydrofuran production unit jointly established by BASF and Xinjiang Markor Chemical Industry officially went into operation in July 2016. (BASF China official website)
German chemical company BASF has announced its withdrawal...
2025-04-28 :Date
A red traffic light is seen in front of the facade of the BASF plant in Schweizerhalle near Basel July 7, 2009. (Reuters)
Chemical giant’s action is welcomed by Uyghur activists who claimed use of slave labor.
By RFA...
2025-04-24 :Date
Farmers pick cotton in a field in Hami in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, on Oct. 14, 2018. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Coerced Uyghur workers are still part of the export chain.
By Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of...
2025-04-24 :Date
BBC, April 23 2025
Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans.
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband will introduce an amendment to legislation to...
2025-04-23 :Date
Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong meet with the Imam of the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, during their visit to the Xinjiang region of China to follow up on the status of Uyghur returnees on March 20. (Photos: Government House)
Deputy PM Phumtham...
2025-04-23 :Date
Through a cultural campaign themed “Xinjiang is a Wonderful Place,” China seeks to mask ongoing human rights violations in East Turkistan.
In an effort to whitewash its oppressive policies against the Uyghur population in East...
2025-04-21 :Date
Amazon allows Chinese military companies to profit off its online marketplace
Story by Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner
April 20 2025
Entities that the U.S. government has designated as arms of the Chinese military freely sell their...
2025-04-21 :Date
In a powerful speech at the Human Rights Foundation, Rushan Abbas, Executive Director of the World Uyghur Congress and Washington-based Campaign for Uyghurs, described China’s economic repression of the Uyghur people as “financial...
2025-04-20 :Date
A cook narrates the situation of detained Uyghurs in a rural detention center in Thailand. Image from Prachatai, a content partner of Global Voices.
A Thai cook explains the plight of Uyghur refugees in a rural detention...
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