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 East Turkistan to follow up on the status of Uyghur returnees on March 20. (Photos:...
2025-03-28
Salih Hudayar
Mar 28 2025
E-International Relations
For over a decade, the world has witnessed mounting evidence of internment camps, forced sterilizations, family separations, religious and cultural persecution, organ harvesting,...
2025-03-28
Thailand has been dealing with the fallout of deporting 40 Uyghurs back to China — a move that has outraged human right activists and alliesImage: CHANAKARN LAOSARAKHAM/AFP/Getty Images
The recent deportation of more than 40 Uyghur...
2025-03-25
By DAKE KANG, HUIZHONG WU and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI
Associated Press, March 24, 2025
BANGKOK (AP) — In late February, representatives of a Thai Muslim organization brought a reassuring message to 40 Uyghur men...
2025-03-25
Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong meet with the Imam of the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang (East Turkistan), during their visit to follow upon the status of Uyghur returnees on March 20....
2025-03-20
Ceremony of “Commemorations of the Martyrs” in Idlib Province, Syria. Screenshot.
Why Uyghur refugees have reasons to be thankful to a government that is under heavy international criticism.
by Kok Bayraq
Bitter Winter,...
2025-03-20
Police vans taking the Uyghur asylum seekers to Bangkok airport at around 2.14 AM on February 27. Posted on Facebook by Thai MP Kannavee Suebsaeng.
We know from precedents that when China allows foreigners to visit prisoners, all is...
2025-03-18
Credit: Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett
If the U.S. intends to be great, it cannot allow China a free pass to bully its allies.
By Omer Kanat
March 14, 2025, The Diplomat
Until recently, the United States has...
2025-03-15
Chinese police officers and paramilitary policemen stand guard on a street in Kashgar, northwest Chinas Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 23, 2014.
Credit: Depositphotos
Once again, the world has failed Uyghurs.
By Yalkun...
2025-03-13
The world woke up on 27 February to the disturbing news of the repatriation of over 40 Uyghurs from Thailand to China. These Uyghurs were detained at the immigration bureau centre in Soi Suan Phlu, Yannawa district (Bangkok) for years....
2025-03-12
Credit: Depositphotos
The remarks confirm reports that the government had received offers from several nations to resettle the asylum seekers prior to their deportation.
By Sebastian Strangio
March 07, 2025, The Diplomat
A senior...
2025-03-08
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...
2025-03-01
The international community has condemned China’s actions, with the U.S. labelling them as genocide and the UN warning of crimes against humanity. | Image: AP
China’s systematic repression of Uyghur intellectuals continues as over...
2025-02-26
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...
2025-02-22
Aziz Isa ElkunResearch Affiliate at SOAS, University of [email protected] | www.azizisa.org/en
Mar 2, 2021Since 2014, the Chinese government has started building a massive network of internment camps or “modern high-tech...
2025-02-22
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...
2025-02-20
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...
2025-02-18
Illustration by Gil Wannalertsiri, Freedom House.
Thai authorities should not forcibly return Uyghur asylum seekers to China.
Freedom House, February 13, 2025
Elise Anderson
Senior Program Officer, Asia Programs
Yana...
2025-02-15
DeepSeek AI soared to the top of Apple’s App Store chart despite issues around Beijing’s censorship (Getty)
As DeepSeek takes the world by storm, Alexander Butler speaks to Uyghurs worried about the app’s ‘dangerous’ erasure...
2025-02-13
Body temperature screening at Jishuitan subway station in Beijing during the pandemic. Credits.
02/13/2025, Bitter Winter
At the end of last month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning called on the US to “stop...
2025-02-13
