President Xi and the 14th National People's congress is expected to pass a law restricting the rights of ethnic minorities
Stephen McDonell - China correspondent, Beijing
BBC News, 10 March 2026
For decades the Chinese...
2026-03-10
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
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
Credit: Getty Images by Westend61
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
“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
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
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
Turkistan Times, 14 Feb. 2026, Munich: The halls of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) recently became the stage for a profound geopolitical tug-of-war. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi presented...
2026-02-15
FEATURED IMAGE: This picture taken on July 19, 2023 shows a watchtower of an alleged detention facility in Artux in Kizilsu Prefecture in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. China stands accused of incarcerating more than 1 million...
2026-02-13
The Uyghur case is not a closed chapter for the fashion industry.
Uyghur controversy forces the fashion industry to reckon with ethical supply chains and human rights. Despite international bans and brand scrutiny, cotton from Xinjiang...
2026-02-10
Uyghur women protest the loss of their loved ones in the Uyghur homeland, in Istanbul, May 2023. Protests used to be a weekly event attended by hundreds, but threats and intimidation via the Chinese state towards their relatives in...
2026-02-07
Credit: Marten Bjork / Unsplash
Digital booking platforms profit from their silence on human rights violations.
By Henryk Szadziewski & Peter Irwin
February 6, 2026, Open Global Rights
Open your browser, go to Booking.com, and...
2026-02-07
Maduro with the American DEA agent who arrested him. Credits.
Who, in fact, set the example for hostage‑taking—Donald Trump or Xi Jinping? A Uyghur journalist’s opinion.
by Shohret Hoshur | Jan 30,...
2026-01-30
Guldaria Sherizat with taped up mouth, UzynagashRiza Alimnur
20 January 2026Felix Corley, Forum 18
Guldaria Sherizat, an ethnic Kazakh originally from Xinjiang(East Turkistan-ed.), is among 19 people on trial in Taldykorgan on 23...
2026-01-28
Uyghur human rights activists participate in a demonstration against Chinese government’s policy in the Xinjiang region, in Strasbourg, France, July 11, 2015. Credit: Photo 56549660 © Ifeelstock | Dreamstime.com
From initial...
2026-01-27
A protester against China’s harsh repression of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or what people there prefer to call East Turkestan, whose unofficial flag is above. [Image credit: ABDUGHENI...
2026-01-22
A demonstration outside the Chinese Consulate in Almaty in 2021 demanding the release of their relatives held in China.
Summary
China appears to have pressured Kazakhstan to prosecute 19 activists who protested Beijing’s mass...
2026-01-21
Traditional Uyghur musicians in a shop in Kashgar city. Photo Credit: The Guardian
By Abdulhakim Idris
Center for Uyghur Studies
January 19, 2026
Songs are never just songs.
Across the world, music entertains and comforts, but it...
2026-01-21
2022: Japan’s Uyghur community protests Beijing Olympics
If the government permits Beijing’s proposed diplomatic compound – whose blueprints indicated hundreds of ‘secret’ rooms, and would allow spies to access the...
2026-01-18
AI generated image of indoctrination session in Kashgar
Leaked audio recording from Chinese government sanctioned indoctrination session reveals Uyghurs still targeted for being "extreme" in 15 different ways
Arslan Hidayat and Nuriman...
2026-01-18
