Anadolu Agency By Umar Farooq WASHINGTON Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Tuesday to participate in a rally for Uyghurs and raise awareness about the occupation of East Turkestan. Demonstrators wearing prison jumpsuits to resemble Uyghurs imprisoned by Chinese authorities marched in the front, chanting "free our brothers, free our sisters." At the U.S. Capitol building, crowds waved their U.S. and ...

RFA A prominent Uyghur poet has been arrested and sent to a re-education camp for her involvement in editing a novel that the Chinese government has taken issue with. RFA’s Uyghur Service received an anonymous tip from a listener that revealed that Chimengul Awut and 13 others who worked at the Kashgar Publishing House have been sent to the camps since last year. Following an investigation by RFA, it has be ...

Foreign Policy Dr.Mamtimin Ala Xi Jinping has somehow escapted attention for his role despite being the mastermind behind China's cultural genocide of the Uyghur people. It is now known to the world that the Uyghurs are going through one of the most horrific cultural genocides of the 21st Century. The emerging testimonies from the victims of it, however fragmented they are, can point to a bigger picture tha ...

HongkongFreePress Academics, journalists and rights groups have recently documented the accelerating repression of the 11-million strong Uighur population living in Xinjiang, a spacious, strategic and resource-rich northwestern borderland of China. The burgeoning security apparatus, ubiquitous surveillance, gathering of biometrics, the use of big data, and similar technological features of Chinese authorita ...

EpochTimes Uyghur children of parents who are detainees in “political re-education” camps or living in exile are being placed into state-run “orphanages” in Xinjiang by local authorities, a traumatized father has told The Epoch Times. Last year, Xinjiang-born Uyghur businessman Adel Abdukadir, 50, who is currently living in exile in Turkey, had four of his children aged 3 to 8 taken away by authorities in X ...