AlJazeera Abdurehim Heyit unites Uighurs, intimidates China and makes the world pay attention to our plight only with his music. Last August, a United Nations anti-discrimination panel shocked the world by reporting that up to one million members of the Uighur community - a Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority in China - were forced into internment camps in the country's western Xinjiang region. The revelation ...

U.S. lawmakers and nonprofits call on the Trump administration to pressure China over Uighur detentions. A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers and a coalition of religious rights groups pushed the U.S. government Monday to take action against Chinese officials responsible for religious persecution, particularly against China’s minority Uighur population. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, la ...

CBC news China, a member of the council, doesn't immediately respond to remarks Turkey and Britain voiced concern on Monday at China's alleged mistreatment of Uighurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region, with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu calling on Beijing to protect freedom of religion and cultural identity. The issue came up as the UN Human Rights Council opened its main annual session i ...

BusinessInsider China is assembling a massive trade project — the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — which aims to connect the country with new infrastructure. Many of these projects pass through Xinjiang, a region in western China home to the beleaguered Uighur Muslim people. Beijing has been cracking down on Uighur life in on Xinjiang. Officials say its repression is a necessary counter-terror operation, bu ...

12/18/2018 GU QI New details about the detention of Uyghurs in China expose a ruthless state using inhuman methods – including torture – to wipe out a culture. Yesterday, Bitter Winter reported about the detained ethnic Uyghurs being transferred to prisons in provinces beyond Xinjiang. New details emerging from our continued reporting expose the lengths the Chinese state is going to in its efforts to detain ...