Tag: Uyghurs

The Chinese Foreign Ministry denounced the report as “completely invalid and a political tool serving the US and some Western forces”

Uyghur rights groups say the document validates allegations of abuse in the region

Authorities in Xinjiang sent local cadres to celebrate an Islamic holiday with Uyghurs in China’s far-western region amid ongoing repression

The EU condemned “in the strongest possible terms that the Uyghurs have been systematically oppressed by brutal measures"

“The perhaps worst human rights violation of our time is treated as a matter of internal review by the perpetrator"

Officials want to eliminate Islam and Uyghur culture in the western region, say analysts quoted by RFA

The filmed dance may be the country’s latest effort to show all is well ahead of the visit from U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet

A Uyghur analyst says the directive is part of China's 'campaign of deception' to hide an ongoing genocide

The report, which the State Department is required to release each year by law, details the state of human rights in 198 countries

China is believed to have held 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim Turkic minorities in the camps since 2017