By Jennifer Hansler, CNN, April 4, 2019 How China is tearing Uyghur families apart (CNN) Zeynep Ablajan said she hasn't been able to speak to her husband, Yalkun Rozi, in over two years. He is a Uyghur scholar and textbook author who was detained in Xinjiang, China in October 2016. That was the last time she heard his voice. "It is torturing looking back," she told CNN through a translator. "I didn't expect ...

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 ...

A Han official’s photo with his Uyghur homestay family taken after the signing of “the homestay card” 03/29/2019 XIANG YI The CCP’s high-pressure control on the Uyghurs also creates heavy stress for ethnic Han public officials there. One committed suicide. As Bitter Winter previously reported, since the beginning of 2018, CCP authorities have been implementing the so-called “home-stay” program in Xinjiang. ...

By Michelle Kosinski and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, March 29, 2019 (CNN) State Department sources say they know American residents -- either US citizens or people with legal status in the United States -- are being held in detention camps in Xinjiang, China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tu5JTcRFkg When asked if there were many, one of the sources said, "No, a few." They were unable to disclose more details ...

Human Rights Watch urges New Zealand's prime minister to defend rights of Uyghur Muslims in China Riyaz ul Khaliq | 29.03.2019  |  ANKARA A rights group has urged New Zealand's prime minister to call on China to respect the human rights of ethnic Uyghur Muslims living in the country's Xinjiang province. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in an open letter to Jacinda Ardern has asked her to express concern ...