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 Public Discourse by  Jennifer S. Bryson Americans need to pay attention to what is happening to the Uyghurs in western China. Failure to respond to the crisis could result in profound human suffering and damage to America’s strategic interests. A terrifying human disaster is currently unfolding in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region—which is now anything but autonomous. Americans need to ...

VOA WASHINGTON - Aygul insists she's not really in the "Eid mood." But that didn't stop her from preparing a traditional Uighur meal for family and friends on this holiday at her home in northern Virginia. In between handing out bowls of homemade laghman noodles and cups of hot tea, Aygul tears up as she and her guests discuss the plight of their families back home in China's far western region of Xinjiang. ...

South China Morning Post Astana’s economic ties with Beijing leave it with a headache in dealing with public anger over the internment of its nationals in Xinjiang’s ‘re-education centres’ Kazakhstan’s government is facing growing popular resentment against China, one of its major economic partners, as accounts emerge of Chinese-Kazakhs and Kazakh nationals being sent to “political re-education camps” in Ch ...

Lowy Institute By   James Leibold One of the worst human rights abuses in recent times is occurring in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang. The Chinese Communist Party has rounded up possibly one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in purpose-built concentration camps where they are subjected to mental and physical abuse without legal recourse. Despite the scale and intensity of this cr ...