Abdurehim Gheni (right) is seen here with US Ambassador to the Netherlands Pete Hoekstra on Amsterdam's Dam Square, July 12, 2020. An ethnic Uyghur, Gheni began staging weekly one-man demonstrations in the square in June 2018 over...
2026-09-10
China’s Cross-Border Persecution Mechanism and the Systematic Isolation Facing the Uyghur Diaspora
Turkistan Times, September 7 — Istanbul: On September 5, 2026, Katherine Davies, host of the Save Democracy podcast, held an important...
2026-09-07
A school in Xinjiang (East Turkestan), Chinese propaganda image. From Weibo.
Official documents trace a policy chain from preschool language instruction and boarding schools to mainland classes, vocational training, and labor...
2026-09-03
The People's Republic of China is exerting diplomatic pressure on Türkiye by comparing the Uyghur issue in East Turkistan with Türkiye's terrorism problem. Prof. Dr. Varis Çakan argues that the two cases are entirely different...
2026-08-31
Screenshot from China Daily Online's video, shared via the “We are China” account on Facebook, detailing the automation of cotton production in the Xinjiang region. Fair use.
Uyghur farmers must transfer their labor and land to the...
2026-08-29
The web of control. AI-generated.
A governing model tested in Uyghur homes now shapes overseas networks, business ties, cultural outreach, and policing arrangements worldwide.
by Asiye Uyghur | Aug 26, 2026 | Op-eds China
The...
2026-08-26
Aug 21, 2026, CRG Review
By Leila Isa
Edited by Max Kabjian and Leïla Van Glabeke, Peer Reviewed by Sophie Bright and Alex Bagdade
Introduction
In 1999, a young Uyghur man called Abdullah argued with his local Imam after...
2026-08-22
By SCF -August 21, 2026
China’s growing influence in Turkey’s media landscape is making it increasingly difficult for Uyghur journalists and activists to draw attention to human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Reporters Without Borders...
2026-08-21
By Alex Bagdade On Aug 20, 2026 | The McGill International Review
In January 2023, Mehmet Tohti, a Uyghur Canadian activist, answered a call that appeared to come from Hong Kong. Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights...
2026-08-20
Activists from Amnesty International hold placards as they march during a demonstration in support of the Uyghurs, on the sidelines of the Chinese President's two-day state visit in France, in Toulouse, south-western France, on May 6,...
2026-08-20
Writing in Foreign Policy, VOC Senior Fellow in China studies, Dr. Adrian Zenz, and researcher Muetter Tohti explore how Beijing is pioneering new tools of transnational repression.
Aug 12, 2026 |Adrian Zenz | VOC...
2026-08-19
Over the past decade, Beijing has ramped up its media presence in Türkiye, which is home to a large diaspora of Uyghurs, a minority severely oppressed in China. The Turkish information space is now increasingly injected with...
2026-08-19
Kalbinur Sidik addressing the 15th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on May 17, 2023.Credit: Optimum Publishing International
“Heart Full of Light,” Kalbinur Sidik’s memoir, provides a first-hand account of...
2026-08-14
A women holding the flag of East Turkestan in Ankara, Turkiye, Oct. 1, 2023. Credit: Shutterstock
China’s transnational repression is real, and host governments themselves are now playing a role in pressuring Uyghur...
2026-08-10
Credit: Photo by Austin on Unsplash
Government actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to expand and harder to challenge.
The Diplomat | By...
2026-08-09
Adrian Zenz. Credits.
A detailed analysis shows how transnational control strategies silence researchers and fracture diaspora communities with longterm consequences.
by Massimo Introvigne | Aug 7, 2026 | Testimonies...
2026-08-07
Uyghur Research Institute
The international counter-terrorism seminar held in Gulja, East Turkistan, on August 4, 2026, is considered one of the Chinese government's most significant diplomatic steps to legitimize its policies in the...
2026-08-05
‘Something innocent yet dangerous emerged’ … Yalkun and Rabia on their honeymoon in Mardin, Turkey, October 2020. Photograph: Courtesy of Yalkun Uluyol
Growing up in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, romance was frowned upon –...
2026-08-05
Uyghur Research Institute
The "Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress," signed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and officially coming into effect on July 1, 2026, marks a historic turning point in China's ethnic policies and signals...
2026-08-03
China’s state television, CCTV, reports on the “crimes” of July 28, 2014. But who were the real criminals?
Silence, disappearances, and the erasure of evidence followed the 2014 military assault on Uyghur civilians.
by Asiye Uyghur...
2026-07-28
