A mosque in Kumul, Xinjiang, China, during Eid Al-fitr prayer, July 2016. © 2016 Yalkun Uluyol/Human Rights Watch
March 18, 2026, HRW
Yalkun Uluyol - China Researcher
This Ramadan, as I sit down with a hot bowl of lentil soup and freshly made Uyghur noodles to break my day-long fast, I try very hard not to think about my father, thousands of miles away, in a prison, and what...
2026-03-22 :Date
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06 MAR 2026, Impact Policies
Global Alarm Rises Over Uyghur Arrests in China's Holy Month Siege. Intensified crackdowns on Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang (East Turkistan-Ed.)...
2026-03-07 :Date
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 Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) has officially...
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...
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 Kashgar, munching mutton kebabs and soaking up heavily...
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...
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 Uyghur Congress, has issued a stark ultimatum to UN High...
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...
2026-02-21 :Date
