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Jailed Uyghur scholar wins top EU human rights prize
Like the U.S., European countries are getting louder on human rights in China after several years of relative silence. This month, jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti received two human rights awards from Europe, including the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Ilham Tohti wins European Parliament’s top human rights prize
Like the U.S., European countries are getting tougher on human rights in China. The most significant signs of that this year both happened this month…
Is Kashmir the next Xinjiang?
On August 5, India unilaterally revoked the autonomy of Kashmir, and integrated it into India proper. Since then, Kashmir has been effectively shut down, with no internet, little mobile phone functionality, and a widespread police presence. India’s treatment of Kashmir shares more than a few similarities with how China has treated Xinjiang in the past decade, according to an article by Nithin Coca in The Nation.
U.S. government sanctions China for abuse of Muslim minorities
The U.S. has become the first country to sanction any Chinese company or official for abuses in Xinjiang. The moves to sanction companies and officials were welcomed by human rights activists, but some of the implementation and timing may not have been what they were hoping for.
Xinjiang sanctions finally come, two days before 13th round of trade talks
The system of mass internment camps for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has been documented in a steady stream of compelling reports over…
Friday Song: Abdurehim Heyit, the Uyghur Bob Dylan, who was disappeared
The song above, “Atilar,” features in Krish Raghav’s list of 70 songs for 70 years of the People’s Republic of China. The text below is…
Xinjiang education reform and the eradication of Uyghur-language books
The “bilingual” education system introduced over the past decade in Xinjiang is better characterized as an attempt to transform minority education systems in the region…
China’s crackdown on Islam goes nationwide
Photo credit: The China Project illustration For China’s Muslims, these are the darkest days in decades. Just a few months ago, that statement might have been…
Sinica Podcast: Christian Shepherd on China’s war on Uyghur culture
This week’s Sinica Podcast is now live. This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy speak with Christian Shepherd, the Beijing correspondent for the…
Exclusive: China on the offensive about Xinjiang — raises issue at U.N.
United Nations Headquarters New York, New York Today at the United Nations Security Council in New York, the situation of Uyghurs in Xinjiang was debated…
Trump attacks China, defends religious freedom, totally ignores Uyghurs
Before he began swatting at the Democratic Party’s impeachment inquiry earlier today, President Donald Trump was at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, where he devoted…
Video: Uyghur prisoners shaved, shackled, and blindfolded
A video widely circulated on social media appears to show several hundred prisoners, presumably Uyghurs, blindfolded and shackled, with shaved heads, being lined up for transportation at a railway station in Korla, Xinjiang
U.S. Senate passes Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act
Photo credit: Ozan Kose / AFP / Getty / The China Project illustration. The demonstrator’s mask bears the light blue color of East Turkestan, the…
How companies profit from forced labor in Xinjiang
Factories of Turkic Muslim internment, part of China’s reeducation camp system, are subsidized and directed by the state, and employ many former detainees at a fraction of minimum wage. Companies, both Chinese and foreign, are taking advantage.
‘Terrorism’: Beijing issues white paper defending Uyghur internment camps
In July, facing growing international pressure about the internment camps that are imprisoning more than a million Uyghurs, the Chinese government released a white paper on Xinjiang which…
China’s ‘social re-engineering’ of Uyghurs, explained by Darren Byler
Mass internment in concentration camps, forced labor, parent-child separation: These are just a few of the realities of life for Uyghur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region. Scholar Darren Byler explains.
Uyghur love in a time of interethnic marriage
Since 2018, there has been a notable rise in articles promoting marriage between Han men and Uyghur women. At a time when many people across…
Beijing forces restaurants to remove Arabic script
Beijing is reportedly targeting Arabic script on the city’s many Muslim restaurants. Reuters reports, via Al Jazeera: Authorities in the Chinese capital ordered halal restaurants and…
