Former camp prisoner Omer Bekali wears chains and is overcome by emotion as he talks about re-education camps in Uyghur Autonomous Region (UAR), during a news conference of the World Congress of the Uygurs and the Society for Threatened Peoples, on March 11 in Berlin. Repression has escalated in Uyghur Autonomous Region (UAR) after President Xi Jinping came to power and introduced the belt and road strategy ...

By Nina Larson Diplomats and activists on Monday denounced intense Chinese lobbying, pressure and even threats to rein in criticism of Beijing during last month's session of the UN Human Rights Council. Human Rights Watch charged that the Chinese mission in Geneva had sent a letter to a number of missions urging them to stay away from a US-organized event on March 13 about China's treatment of Uighurs and o ...

BY MARGARET WOLLENSAK, THE EPOCH TIMES, April 2, 2019 Chinese officials tried to pressure a human rights research institute to cancel an event at Concordia University in Montreal that featured an exiled Uighur Muslim leader, one of the event’s organizers says. Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia, said he was contacted by the Chinese ...

Nurul Azwa Aris - April 2 PETALING JAYA: NGO Global Peace Mission Malaysia (GPM) today urged the government to intervene in the plight of Uighur Muslims amid reports of oppression against the community in the Xinjiang province. GPM CEO Ahmad Fahmi Mohd Samsudin said about a million Uighurs were recently reported to have been detained by Chinese authorities. Speaking at a forum here titled “Uighurs’ Plight: ...

As a neighboring province of Xinjiang, Gansu has become one of the destinations for transferring detained Uyghurs. A prison where Uyghurs are detained in Gansu’s Jiuquan city. Li Wensheng As Bitter Winter has previously reported, to hide the mass detention of Uyghurs, the Chinese authorities are transferring large numbers of detainees from the overcrowded prisons and transformation through education camps i ...