BitterWinter 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 and ...

People rally last week to urge the State Department to fight for the freedom of the Uyghur population held in Chinese detention centers. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) By Gerry Shih February 10 at 12:59 PM BEIJING — The Turkish government has called on China to close its indoctrination centers holding ethnic Uyghurs, marking a rare instance of a major Muslim country joining a mounting international cho ...

By Ben Westcott and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN)Turkey has denounced Beijing's controversial mass "re-education" camps in China's western region of Xinjiang, calling them a "great shame for humanity." In a strongly-worded statement Saturday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said hundreds of thousands of prisoners were subject to "torture and political brainwashing" in China's camps. "We call on the internat ...

RTR world  Turkish Foreign Ministry says it "expects Chinese authorities to consider Turkish people’s reaction over serious human rights violations." Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman slammed Chinese authorities’ systematic assimilation policy towards Uighur Turks, saying it is a "great embarrassment" in a written statement on Sunday. Spokesman Hami Aksoy said, "Systematic assimilation policy of Chinese au ...

JamesTown Foundation Editor’s Note: This article continues coverage by China Brief of the ongoing efforts by the Chinese government to suppress dissent in Xinjiang (see China Brief, May 15 2018; and China Brief, November 5 2018). This article examines commonalities between the situation in Xinjiang and the government’s prior (and ongoing) efforts to suppress and “transform” practitioners of Falun Gong. Due ...