RFA Hu Jia, a Chinese human rights activist and critic of the Communist Party of China, has closely followed the case of Ilham Tohti, an outspoken economics professor who regularly highlighted the religious and cultural persecution of the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority. Tohti was sentenced to life in prison for promoting ethnic separatism on Sept. 23, 2014 following a two-day show trial and is serving ...

Radio Free That’s because 41-year-old Sayragul Sauytbay has testified about the existence of a network of “reeducation camps” in western China where she says thousands of ethnic Kazakhs are incarcerated for “political indoctrination.” Unlike others who’ve fled abroad, saying they’d been forced to endure dehumanizing indoctrination at such camps, Sauytbay was not a camp detainee. She was a camp employee. Bef ...

  The Epoch Time WASHINGTON—U.S. companies came under sharp criticism for helping the Chinese Communist Party build surveillance infrastructure used for the detention of hundreds of thousands in concentration camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, at a hearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. An expert said the repression in Xinjiang likely includes mass, forced organ harves ...

UNPO Hoja, who today is a US citizen, tells her story of being belonging to the Uyghur minority in China. Her brother Kaisar Keyum was detained by Chinese government officials while he was driving their sick mother to the hospital. When Hoja wanted to speak out about her brother’s forced disappearance, her mother told her to not to make her brother’s case public because as she was fearing for their safety. ...

Asian Corresponder CHINA’S Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies their existence. But extensive reporting by international media and human rights groups indicates that upwards of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs – a Muslim-minority ethnic group – have been detained in sprawling “re-education” centres in the far-western Xinjiang region of China. The camps are not only massive, with some exceeding 10,000sqm, but ...