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
It starts with recognizing genocide in China, then banning imports linked to forced Uyghur labour and streamlining the resettlement of refugees.
by Steven Zhou
February 10, 2025, IRPP
In December, the government of China hit two...
2025-02-10
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“The Uyghur language is banned...
2025-02-08
Rahima Mahmut protesting last month at the Thai Embassy in London, urging Thailand not to deport 48 Uyghurs currently in detention there to China.
Remembering the holocausts of the past is a mere exercise of rhetoric if...
2025-02-07
Margaret McCuaig-Johnston is a board director of the China Strategic Risks Institute, a senior fellow with the University of Ottawa and an advisory board member of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project.
Margaret...
2025-01-29
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app logo displayed on a mobile phone in Brussels on Jan. 28, 2025.
Washington —
Just one week after its initial release, China’s new artificial intelligence assistant, DeepSeek, has...
2025-01-29
Credit: Depositphotos
The fate of these 48 men has become a litmus test for human rights in Southeast Asia, with far-reaching implications that extend beyond the borders of Thailand and China.
By Abdulhakim Idris
January...
2025-01-24
Niluper and her three children in Turkey
Jonathan Head
Southeast Asia correspondent
BBC, Jan 21 2025
Niluper says she has been living in agony.
A Uyghur refugee, she has spent the past decade hoping her husband would...
2025-01-21
Russian airplanes drop bombs on Syria, 2020. Credits.
The war years were hell for Syrians but sometimes paradise for the Uyghurs, who were better off there that under Chinese persecution. Some even found love.
Kok Bayraq
Bitter Winter,...
2025-01-21
Uyghur-Australian Mamutjan Abdurehim’s wife was detained eight years ago in China. He hasn’t seen her since and is urging the federal government to sanction China over its treatment of Uyghurs. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/The...
2025-01-19
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham fighters parading in Umayyad Square to celebrate the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, Damascus, December 20, 2024. LAURENCE GEAI /MYOP FOR « LE MONDE »
Uyghur fighters from the Turkistan Islamic Party helped...
2025-01-18
Uyghur fighters in Syria. Screenshot.
A journey from cheerful musician to fighter. China may call it radicalization. I see it as part of a generation’s religious awakening.
kok Bayraq, Bitter Winter
01/15/2025
In August 2023 at...
2025-01-17
By Eli Clemens
January 8, 2025, ITIF
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating the Chinese e-commerce platform Temu for violating the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), according to the New...
2025-01-08
Uyghur commander addressing the locals in a mosque in Latakia, December 10, 2024. Screenshot.
One Uyghur has been appointed general and two colonels in the new Syrian Army. What does it mean?
by Kok Bayraq
Bitter Winter, 01/07/2025
The...
2025-01-07
China grandstands about Gaza while repressing a Muslim community within its own borders. Hardly anyone seems to notice.
By Michael Schuman
January 6, 2025, The Atlantic
China has exploited the crisis in Gaza to present itself as a...
2025-01-06
Uyghur detainees in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, in April 2017. (CREDIT: Wikimedia)
January 02, 2025, DV Journal
Falsely labeled “Italian” products have been discovered in some of the biggest supermarket chains across Europe,...
2025-01-02
