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
Uyghurs and Tibetans commemorate Lobga Rangzen in Amsterdam’s Dam Square.
A Tibetan offered his life for freedom. Uyghurs and Tibetans stand together against the same colonial machinery of oppression.
by Abdurehim Gheni Uyghur | Jul...
2026-07-14
Caden Eldridge| July 12, 2026 | OWP
The Uyghur people, an Islamic minority group that lives primarily in China’s eastern Xinjiang (East Turkestan) region, have for the last decade been subjected to “counter-terrorism” campaigns from...
2026-07-13
Uyghur diaspora protesting the latest assimilation order by China
China’s new ethnic unity law institutionalises assimilation, threatening minority identities while drawing international criticism over rights, culture, and transnational...
2026-07-12
Democratic governments must act immediately to issue a collective warning to Beijing
By Rushan Abbas | Fox News | July 8 2026
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to consume. For decades, the regime has systematically...
2026-07-12
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly convened for a crucial plenary session to address the international responsibility to prevent genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. However, as Priyanka Shankar highlights in an...
2026-07-10
July 8, 2026 | The Strategist | By Elijah Pockell-Wilson
Australia is leaving its market exposed to goods tied to Uyghur forced labour. As the United States and European Union move to block such goods, countries with weaker import...
2026-07-09
Images of the 2009 repression. From X.
Seventeen years after the tragedy, the questions still matter. A Uyghur view.
by Asiye Uyghur | Jul 3, 2026 | Op-eds China| Bitter Winter
Seventeen years have passed since the July...
2026-07-03
Since language is inseparable from cultural and religious identity to the Uyghur, Tibetan, and Mongolian communities, China’s requirement that they adopt Mandarin in school education and public institutions under its new law strikes at...
2026-07-02
Uyghur Muslims in a market in Xinjiang, China
June 30, 2026, By Ashu Mann, Eurasia Review
The Chinese Communist Party’s founding on July 1, 1921, established ideological conformity as a non-negotiable demand...
2026-07-01
In this Jul. 13, 2024 file photo, a Uyghur protester at the White House calls for a boycott against China for its mistreatment and confinement of the Uyghur people. Credit: Phil Pasquini/Shutterstock
After a disappointing Trump-Xi...
2026-06-28
