The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched “Xinjiang Aid” (对口援疆) in 1997 as a poverty-alleviation and ethnic-unity program in the Uyghur Region. In practice, it is a comprehensive system of repression, coercion, and...
2025-10-29
In the global capital of footwear, the voices of Uyghurs coerced into factory work raise huge questions for western companies
September 8 2025
By Daniel Murphy, TBIJ
One in every five pairs of trainers in the...
2025-09-08
Intel logo is seen in this illustration taken February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
The U.S. government will take a 10% stake in the company, whose technology has been used by sanctioned...
2025-08-27
David Tobin
University of Sheffield - University of Sheffield
Nyrola Elimä
Independent
SSRN 12 Aug 2025
Abstract
Transnational repression is increasingly used by authoritarian states to coerce or intimidate their critics and...
2025-08-16
New UK Parliament Report: Products of Forced Labour in East Turkistan Are Infiltrating the UK Market
Lawyers and representatives from the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur community in 2022. The court’s judgment means the NCA will have to reconsider its decision not to investigate. Photograph: Tom Pilgrim/PA
Istanbul, Turkistan...
2025-07-30
Turkistan Times, 24 June 2025: China's efforts to silence dissent have long crossed borders, but a new report reveals a growing campaign of coercion, infiltration, and transnational repression aimed squarely at exiled Uyghurs. The China...
2025-06-24
Turkistan Times, June 12 2025: A newly released report by Global Rights Compliance titled “Risk at the Source: Critical Mineral Supply Chains and State-Imposed Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region” highlights the increasing global...
2025-06-12
Uyghurs demonstrators take part in a protest against China in Istanbul, Turkey on October 1, 2020 [File: Murad Sezer/Reuters]
Turkistan Times, June 10, Tokyo: A new report titled "The History, Culture, and Struggle for Survival of the...
2025-06-11
A major investigation by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals that China’s economic machine relies heavily on the forced labour of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities from East Turkistan. The report, titled "China’s economy...
2025-05-29
Turkistan Times, May 19 2025 — The Center for Uyghur Studies has released a powerful new report titled “Breaking the Roots: China’s Use of Boarding Schools as a Tool of Genocide Against Uyghur Muslims”, highlighting a deeply...
2025-05-19
Human rights activists at a 2021 demonstration organized by the World Uyghur Congress, Free Tibet and more in London. Image: Belinda Jiao/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Citizen Lab found the advocates, including some featured...
2025-04-29
The 2025 Annual Report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has highlighted that religious freedom conditions in China remain among the worst globally, with a focus on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)...
2025-03-28
Levent Kenez/Stockholm
February 25, 2025, Nordic Monitor
A recent report by Turkey’s National Intelligence Academy analyzes China’s growing influence and its potential impact on Ankara’s foreign policy. Emphasizing the need for a...
2025-02-25
FILE - A farmer walks past government propaganda depicting ethnic minority residents reading the constitution with a slogan that reads, "Unity, Stability is fortune, Separatism and Turmoil is misfortune," near Kashgar in Xinjiang,...
2025-02-14
Uyghur child protesting in front of Chinese Consulate, Istanbul, February 2021. (AA Photo)
By Yagiz Efe Parmaksiz Feb 6, 2025
Turkiye Today
In a comprehensive investigation released Monday, Human Rights Watch revealed that Chinese...
2025-02-06
A Chinese police officer for border inspection on duty at the Khunjerab Pass in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, January 2, 2025. © 2025 Hu Huhu/Xinhua via Getty Images
Onerous Requirements, Official Tours Latest...
2025-02-04
A Uyghur man collects marigold flowers in a field outside Yarkand in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, July 17, 2023. (Pedro Pardo/AFP)
Read RFA coverage of this story in Uyghur.
Dozens of Western companies are identified...
2024-12-24
A new peer-reviewed academic report by VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz and I-Lin Lin, published by the International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS), shows that China’s agricultural sector in Xinjiang is more tainted by forced...
2024-12-22
ODNI is publishing this report pursuant to section 6504 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Pub. L. No. 117-263).
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About the National Intelligence Council:
The National Intelligence...
2024-11-23
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UK supply chains and Uyghur and Turkic Muslim forced labour in China (384 KB , PDF)
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