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China’s Eid charity in Dhaka highlights a powerful contrast between outward generosity and alleged repression at home.
By Kongkon Karmaker
Borderlens, March 26, 2026
On a humid afternoon in Mirpur,...
2026-03-27
A mosque in Kumul, Xinjiang, China, during Eid Al-fitr prayer, July 2016. © 2016 Yalkun Uluyol/Human Rights Watch
March 18, 2026, HRW
Yalkun Uluyol - China Researcher
This Ramadan, as I sit down with a hot bowl of...
2026-03-22
Before The Camps: The Uyghur Protests Beijing Didn’t Want You To See (Photo: On Jan 17, 2026, Demonstrators, including Uyghurs, gather outside Royal Mint Court to protest against plans to open new Chinese mega-embassy) Image Credit:...
2026-03-19
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Field Officers inspect vehicles at a port of entry in Seattle, Washington. Credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection via Flickr
Enforcement of the bipartisan law appeared to be slowing prior to a...
2026-03-16
Repression does not always rely on visible coercion
Written byAsiye Uyghur
Global Voices, 11 March 2026
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been urging grassroots officials to strengthen and innovate social governance since...
2026-03-15
Turkistan Times, March 13, 2026 – Istanbul: During the National People's Congress held in Beijing in March 2026, the Chinese government officially passed and began implementing the "Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress" [1]....
2026-03-15
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
