Breitbart Beijing is using its embassies and consulates to export repression targeting members of China’s predominantly Muslim Uighur minority group abroad, including the United States, a human rights activist told American lawmakers on Wednesday. In written testimony prepared for a House panel hearing on the U.S. response to China’s repression and internment of Uighurs (or Uyghurs), Nury Turkel, the chairm ...

Relatives have no knowledge of what has happened to Abudujilili Supi after his arrest in the UAE last week. Al Jazeera The family of a Uighur man detained in the United Arab Emirates has expressed concern that he will be deported to China, where the largely Muslim ethnic group are subject to an array of repressive measures. Emirati police officers arrested Abudujilili Supi on Thursday after he left afternoo ...

MalaysiaKini Omer Kanat COMMENT | China is conducting one of the largest mass internment campaigns known to history. Journalists, academics, and activists have brought to light the extent of the human rights violations in East Turkestan (formally known as Xinjiang), including deaths in custody, torture, and systemic political indoctrination. Legislators and officials from the United Nations, the United Stat ...

The Times of Central Asia BISHKEK (TCA) — The Chinese government is conducting a mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations against Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report released on September 9. The 117-page report, “‘Eradicating Ideological Viruses’: China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims,” prese ...

VOA United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has called on China to accept observers in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Bachelet made the request on Monday. Her appeal came as Human Rights Watch released a report on the area’s Turkic, mostly Uyghur minority population. The group's report says that Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang face unjustified detention, restrictions on religious a ...