When Chinese authorities began the “strike hard” campaign in Xinjiang in 2014, they imposed severe penalties on Uyghurs, arrested them arbitrarily, and began a propaganda drive against the group’s ethnic customs and religious faith under the guise of promoting modernity.
Uncovering the fate of missing loved ones in China with the aid of a new search tool for Uyghurs.700,000 Uyghurs are currently being held, according to data hacked from Xinjiang police
After an earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, killing more than 7,000 people, a group of Uyghur volunteers in Istanbul quickly responded, driving 24 hours to assist in relief efforts.
A Uyghur man working as an engineer in the United States has called on Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang to release his 19-year-old sister, who was detained in December after posting a video relating to November’s “white paper” protests across China.
As COVID cases surge in China’s western Xinjiang region, the area’s top government official has urged hospitals to incorporate traditional Uyghur medicine to treat patients
The fate of 18 miners – mostly Uyghurs – trapped in a collapsed gold mine in China’s far-western Xinjiang province remained uncertain.
A Uyghur Muslim preacher serving a five-year sentence in China’s far-western Xinjiang region for making a religious pilgrimage abroad died of liver cancer in prison in February.
Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region have detained a well-known Uyghur nutritionist for messages he posted on social media, according to Sweden-based siblings and police in the region’s capital Urumqi.
Marwayit Hapiz is a renowned Uyghur artist whose vivid oil paintings of everyday Uyghur life and customs are enjoyed in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, as well as in Germany, where she has lived since 1996.
Some 55 Uyghur organizations have called on world leaders to recognize Dec. 9 as Uyghur Genocide Recognition Day, marking the day a year ago that an independent U.K.-based Uyghur Tribunal announced its findings that China committed genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in its western Xinjiang region