All told, 578,500 Uyghurs or other Turkic people were in jail as of 2022, the group estimates. That’s just over one-third of China’s total prison population, even though they comprise only 1% of China’s overall population.
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An estimated one in 26 Uyghurs in China’s far-western Xinjiang region are behind bars, the world’s highest rate of incarceration, according to a report by a Uyghur advocacy group.
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A Uyghur official who spied on fellow Uyghurs in Xinjiang is serving a seven-year prison sentence on the charge of religious extremism after he was moved by Muslim sermons and gave up smoking and drinking alcohol, area authorities said.
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In an about-face, Xinjiang’s highest legislative body has issued a new regulation to protect Kashgar’s Old City —which they previously ordered to be destroyed and reconstructed, leaving only a small area as a tourist attraction.
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Uyghur advocates welcomed the introduction in the U.S. House proposed legislation that would expand the use of sanctions targeting Chinese government officials responsible for human rights violations against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang.
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The hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs subjected by China to detention, forced labor and cultural erasure underscores the urgency for global action, panelists said at a two-day interfaith conference on disrupting Uyghur genocide.
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The European Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new law that prevents the import and distribution of goods made with forced labor, a move that Uyghur advocates said would help clamp down on China’s use of forced labor in far western Xinjiang.
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When an armed police officer directed Uyghur surgeon Enver Tohti to remove organs from a not-quite-dead prisoner on an execution ground outside Urumqi, his first reaction was overwhelming relief: 'I thought they were going to execute me,' he recalled.
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A 29-year-old Uyghur woman died of a suspected heart attack after collapsing in tears over the corpse of her jailed husband – and then being interrogated by police in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, a source with knowledge of the situation told RFA.
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A 29-year-old Uyghur woman died of a suspected heart attack after collapsing in tears over the corpse of her jailed husband – and then being interrogated by police in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, a source with knowledge of the situation told RFA.
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When an armed police officer directed Uyghur surgeon Enver Tohti to remove organs from a not-quite-dead prisoner on an execution ground outside Urumqi, his first reaction was overwhelming relief: 'I thought they were going to execute me,' he recalled.
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The officer’s colleagues told him that Muqeddem was arrested on suspicion of religious radicalization for advising his friends not to drink or smoke at an event prior to 2016.
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The European Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a new law that prevents the import and distribution of goods made with forced labor, a move that Uyghur advocates said would help clamp down on China’s use of forced labor in far western Xinjiang.
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Authorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using social media apps including TikTok and tools to circumvent censorship, according to a video released from Chinese police.
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Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi says Americans are unwittingly investing in Chinese entities that abuse human rights.
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A Uyghur butcher serving a seven-year prison sentence in southern Xinjiang for advising friends not to drink alcohol or smoke at a gathering has been released alive and returned to his family, sources with knowledge of the situation said. rfa.org/english/news/u…

A Uyghur butcher serving a seven-year prison sentence in southern Xinjiang for advising friends not to drink alcohol or smoke at a gathering has been released alive and returned to his family, sources with knowledge of the situation said. rfa.org/english/news/u…

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi says Americans are unwittingly investing in Chinese entities that abuse human rights.
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Authorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using social media apps including TikTok and tools to circumvent censorship, according to a video released from Chinese police.
rfa.org/english/news/u…
#TikTok

The hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs subjected by China to detention, forced labor and cultural erasure underscores the urgency for global action, panelists said at a two-day interfaith conference on disrupting Uyghur genocide.
rfa.org/english/news/u…
#DisruptingGenocide