Tashpolat Tiyip guiding fieldwork at Qaghaliq County Written by Amy Anderson Note: This article written by Amy Anderson is based on interviews with Tashpolat Tiyip’s friends, students and relatives. Their identities cannot be revealed due to obvious reasons. Sometime after he disappeared in 2017, Tashpolat Tiyip, the president of Xinjiang University, was sentenced to death in a secret trial. The Chinese sta ...

Breitbart news The Chinese government published a paper on Wednesday entitled “Progress in Human Rights Over the 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up in China.” As the loaded title implies, the paper is extremely flattering to China’s marvelous achievements in human rights and evidently has little to say about such matters as the crushing of political dissent, the systematic oppression of religious faith, and ...

Telegraph China has legalised internment camps believed to be holding hundreds of thousands of Uighur Muslims in the first official recognition of the centres. A new law allows for “vocational skill education training centres” to “carry out anti-extremist ideological education"  and implement “psychological and behavioural correction to promote thought transformation of trainees, and help them return to soc ...

Hoover Institution Since its founding in 1949, the Chinese communist government in Beijing has long considered a northwestern region on its vast political map a primary troubled spot for the regime and has systematically implemented various measures to seek total control of this important territory. Of the four non-China Proper areas, the other three, i.e. Manchuria, Mongolia and Tibet have longer, and more ...

The Diplomat Uyghurs fear that Beijing wants nothing less than for them to disappear as a people. Omer Kanat Uyghurs struggled for decades to draw attention to the suffering of their people. Chinese authorities have long violated Uyghurs’ cultural, linguistic, and religious rights, marginalizing them in their own homeland. Now they are being rounded up on an unprecedented scale, documented in a new Uyghur H ...