Turkistan Times, March 13, 2026 – Istanbul: During the National People's Congress held in Beijing in March 2026, the Chinese government officially passed and began implementing the "Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress" [1]. Although this law is cosmetically adorned with terms like "unity" and "development," it is in reality a clear manifestation of China completely abandoning the...
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2026-03-11 :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...
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 forcibly returned to China by Thai authorities, their fate...
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...
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 a box of imported snacks and notices a small logo. The...
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...
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 released on 28 December 2025, after completing a three-year...
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...
2026-02-20 :Date
Left: Mirkamel Tourghoun. © Private; Right: Abdurahman Tohti. © Private
Paris Should Adopt Measures against ‘Transnational Repression’
HRW, February 18, 2026
(Paris) – Chinese authorities have attempted to pressure two ethnic...
2026-02-18 :Date
Radio Free Asia’s president and chief executive said resumption of broadcasts to China was down to ‘private contracting with transmission services’. Photograph: Rod Lamkey/AP
Turkistan Times, 18 February 2026
WASHINGTON — In a...
2026-02-18 :Date
Two women decorate a grave in a Uyghur graveyard on the outskirts of Hotan in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images
By Jeremiah Jacques
The Trumpet • February 17, 2026
The Uyghur people of...
2026-02-17 :Date
