Gold mined by Uyghurs forced to work for Chinese firms ends up in Western investments and products, report shows
Blackstone, State Street, and Vanguard; Dell, Google, J&J, and Sony among global firms linked to mining conditions akin to slavery.
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Outrage at China’s life sentence for Uyghur folklore scholar Rahile Dawut
The renowned Uyghur anthropologist Rahile Dawut disappeared in 2017 and was convicted of "splittism." Confirmation that her appeal was rejected means she’ll likely spend the rest of her life in a Chinese prison.
‘Nikah’: An astonishing portrait of Uyghur life on the edge of erasure
Filmed in France with a cast and crew of exiled Uyghurs, ‘Nikah’ is a glimpse into the shattering of a culture, and shows us the beauty of Uyghur communal life.
‘Anticolonial friendships’: How anthropologists study Uyghurs in contemporary China
Anthropology cannot “save” the people anthropologists care about. When anthropologists do speak, it should be alongside the voices of the disenfranchised, speaking as listeners and translators.
A Uyghur family fled and Beijing followed, pushing for prison and extradition in Turkey and Morocco
The precarious life of a Uyghur family in exile.
Forced labor on China’s cotton farms will enslave Uyghurs until the EU and UN act, a report says
Scholars and activists say that efforts in Europe and America to combat forced labor in China are not enough.
Xinjiang and the global rise of mass surveillance
Many aspects of mass surveillance technology may have been perfected in Xinjiang, but its use is hardly exclusive to China. For companies, the security industry presents a “market opportunity.”
When does cruelty become brutality? On state violence in Northwest China
In Carlos Sanchez's book "A Sense of Brutality," cruelty is defined as enjoying the pain of another. In Xinjiang, there was a form of enjoyment, disguised as ethno-nationalist pride, of the detention of Uyghurs, suggesting cruelty at scale.
Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan — and beyond
Xinjiang's history as a penal colony and then a high-tech laboratory has resulted in one of the most sophisticated and all-encompassing surveillance networks in the world to be deployed there. Other places may be next.
Canada, a new Uyghur homeland
The Uyghur diaspora is celebrating Canada's recent decision to accept 10,000 Uyghur refugees in the next two years. For them, there is finally hope of building a solid future.