EpochTime Uyghur women detained in China’s so-called “vocational training centers” are being psychologically and physically tortured, poisoned, and killed by injection, a former detainee has told The Epoch Times. Uyghur and Kazakhstan national Gulbakhar Jalilova, 54, said she witnessed the atrocities during her 15-month internment in an all-female camp in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi before she was releas ...

BitterWinter Authorities have issued a notice as per which, any display of religious belief, such as wearing a burqa or having a long beard, is akin to a crime, and “criminals” must surrender themselves. Bitter Winter has accessed an official document issued by the Xinjiang government. It is a notice that was adopted against religious belief and designates normal religious behavior as “committing a crime.” ...

MalaysiaKini Omer Kanat COMMENT | China is conducting one of the largest mass internment campaigns known to history. Journalists, academics, and activists have brought to light the extent of the human rights violations in East Turkestan (formally known as Xinjiang), including deaths in custody, torture, and systemic political indoctrination. Legislators and officials from the United Nations, the United Stat ...

The Public Discourse by  Jennifer S. Bryson Americans need to pay attention to what is happening to the Uyghurs in western China. Failure to respond to the crisis could result in profound human suffering and damage to America’s strategic interests. A terrifying human disaster is currently unfolding in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region—which is now anything but autonomous. Americans need to ...

VOA WASHINGTON - Aygul insists she's not really in the "Eid mood." But that didn't stop her from preparing a traditional Uighur meal for family and friends on this holiday at her home in northern Virginia. In between handing out bowls of homemade laghman noodles and cups of hot tea, Aygul tears up as she and her guests discuss the plight of their families back home in China's far western region of Xinjiang. ...