Uyghurs have been detained on spurious charges in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Thailand, and Turkey, as the governments of those countries attempt to curry favor with Beijing.
Activist Abduweli Ayup is attempting to keep Uyghur culture alive by teaching the younger generation their history and heritage.
A recent House of Lords panel in the U.K. drew attention to the way China, among other countries, abuses the global Red Notice system that was originally set up to stop criminals from fleeing justice.
Activists and U.S. officials have hailed legislation intended to stop goods made with coerced Uyghur labor, but complain that tainted goods are still reaching U.S. markets in large numbers.
Zhang says that the scenes in his photographs are things that were already there, but are also reflections of his own moods, and bearers of stories.
Uyghurs who have escaped persecution in China face transnational repression, statelessness, poverty, and psychological trauma. Activists are calling for international help.
The tech companies that have profited off human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Chinese citizens continue to sell their wares worldwide and get funding from global investors.
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.
A new bipartisan U.S. committee held its second meeting to hear testimony from Uyghur survivors of internment camps and expert witnesses. Nobody minced their words.