Chang Xin  The Chinese government has been eradicating Uyghurs’ customs and traditions by prohibiting the use of their language, forcing them to eat pork. Forced to eat pork A Han Chinese teacher who volunteers in southern Uyghur Autonomous Region told Bitter Winter that in May last year, her school launched a special course to indoctrinate Uyghur students with communist ideology and impose on them traditio ...

We cannot accept an order that permits China to create a sphere of authoritarianism beyond its borders. Jeffrey Cimmino A man poses on the street in a small village where ethnic Uighurs live on the outskirts of Shayar in the Uighur Region My first personal encounter with victims of a modern authoritarian government came last October, when I sat down with Zumret Dawut and Mirighul Tursun, two Uighur women wh ...

By Bahram K. Sintash Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan The Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project uses its networks among Uighurs in exile and in Xinjiang to produce informative reports on the human rights disaster unfolding in that region. (I served for nine years on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy, which supports the UHRP.) Demolishing Faith details a couple of dozen of what may be thou ...

by Bengisu Çiçek As the COVID-19 virus has escalated and hit many parts of the world, it has affected countless communities. One community in particular that the virus has a massive effect on is the incarcerated community. There are many camps and detention facilities around the world, the closest to us being the Northwest Detention Center. There are also concentration camps within East Turkestan, renamed X ...

Ayjaz Wani, 10 April, 2020 China has sent thousands of Uyghurs to its manufacturing powerhouses at Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangzi and Zhejiang to keep its factories after the lockdown. In a controversial decision the UN has appointed China to its Human Rights Council panel, where the communist nation with scant record for human rights will play a key role in selection of the UN’s investigators to monitor global ci ...