Lina K 09/12/2021 Lina K 09/12/2021

The Uyghur Tribunal Delivers Its Judgment

The Uyghur Tribunal, having reviewed evidenced since September 2020, reaches a judgment on whether international crimes are proved to have been committed by the PRC.

Lina K 14/07/2021 Lina K 14/07/2021

One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps

This account by a Uyghur and his family who escaped from Xinjiang’s persecution shares with the world his experience of the calamity engulfing his homeland.

Lina K 10/06/2021 Lina K 10/06/2021

“Like We Were Enemies In a War” - China’s Mass Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang

This report, based on first-hand testimonies and satellite imagery data analysis, gives an extensive account of life inside the internment camps.

Lina K 19/04/2021 Lina K 19/04/2021

“Break Their Lineage, Break Their Roots” - China’s Crimes against Humanity

This report outlines the evidence for the conclusion that the Chinese government has committed crimes against humanity against the Turkic Muslim population.

Lina K 05/04/2021 Lina K 05/04/2021

Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.

Lina K 17/12/2020 Lina K 17/12/2020

‘Will they let us live?’ Inside Xinjiang, survivors of China’s internment camps speak

On a visit to Xinjiang, reporters met with Uighurs across the region who spoke of their imprisonment, fear and life in the region.

Lina K 24/09/2020 Lina K 24/09/2020

Documenting Xinjiang’s Detention System

This database of nearly 400 suspected detention facilities in Xinjiang highlights ‘re-education’ camps, detention centres and prisons that have been newly built or expanded since 2017.

Lina K 27/08/2020 Lina K 27/08/2020

What They Saw: Ex-Prisoners Detail The Horrors Of China's Detention Camps

BuzzFeed News interviewed 28 former detainees from the camps in Xinjiang about their experiences, who wanted to make the world aware of how they were treated.

Lina K 27/08/2020 Lina K 27/08/2020

China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims

Using satellite images and interviews with former detainees, this investigation of China’s internment camp system identified more than 260 structures built since 2017.

Lina K 01/03/2020 Lina K 01/03/2020

Uyghurs for Sale: ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang

This report reveals how the forced transfers of Uyghurs to factories across China are linked to the supply chains of dozens of international brands.

Lina K 24/11/2019 Lina K 24/11/2019

Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm

A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s Orwellian system of mass surveillance and “predictive policing.”

Lina K 16/11/2019 Lina K 16/11/2019

‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.

Lina K 09/09/2018 Lina K 09/09/2018

“Eradicating Ideological Viruses” - China’s Campaign of Repression Against Xinjiang’s Muslims

This report presents new evidence of the Chinese government’s mass arbitrary detention, torture, and mistreatment of Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. Systemic and increasingly pervasive controls on daily life there dramatically scaled up when Chen Quanguo became Xinjiang’s Party Secretary in late 2016.

Lina K 18/09/2024 Lina K 18/09/2024

World leaders must act to end decade of injustice for jailed Uyghur academic

The international community must take concrete steps to help secure the release of Ilham Tohti, Amnesty said ahead of the 10-year-anniversary of his conviction on baseless charges of “separatism”.

Lina K 18/09/2024 Lina K 18/09/2024

Urgent Appeal for the Immediate Release of Ilham Tohti

Ilham Tohti, a renowned Uyghur intellectual, has spent a decade unjustly imprisoned for his peaceful advocacy. His calls for understanding and dialogue between Uyghurs and Han Chinese were met with a life sentence on baseless charges of “separatism”.

Lina K 18/09/2024 Lina K 18/09/2024

Japanese-Uyghur lawmaker urges Tokyo to take firmer stand on China

“The international community, including Japan, must do its part to ensure that we do not set a precedent where such violations go unaccounted for under our watch,” she said.

Lina K 16/09/2024 Lina K 16/09/2024

Uyghur activists welcome Biden’s call to limit ‘de minimis’ exemption

Critics call the law a ‘loophole’ that allows goods made with slavery to be sold to Americans.

Lina K 29/08/2024 Lina K 29/08/2024

Pakistan-based Uyghur businessmen praise China during Xinjiang visit

Activists say Beijing-funded trip was meant to dispel accusations of genocide in the region.

Lina K 27/08/2024 Lina K 27/08/2024

China is borrowing Nazi’s ‘genocide tourism’ practices in Xinjiang: scholar

Beijing wants visitors to believe the Uyghurs are thriving – and control what they see, a Swedish expert writes.

Lina K 27/08/2024 Lina K 27/08/2024

UN rights chief renews call for Chinese movement on abuses documented in Xinjiang

Rights groups welcome show of UN concern, but want concrete actions to overcome Beijing's stonewalling.

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