Lina K 16/01/2025 Lina K 16/01/2025

China expands orphanage-style boarding schools for Uyghur children

Beijing claims to have shut down the camps where their parents were interned.

Lina K 23/12/2024 Lina K 23/12/2024

Uyghur intellectual died while in custody of Chinese authorities

Ibrahim Dawut had been an advocate for Uyghur language education, but died two months after his arrest.

Lina K 18/06/2024 Lina K 18/06/2024

China: Hundreds of Uyghur Village Names Change

Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology.

Lina K 23/03/2024 Lina K 23/03/2024

Uyghur publisher jailed for books on Uyghur independence, identity

Believed detained for publishing books about Uyghur cultural identity, Erkin Emet was sentenced to prison in 2018; his whereabouts and the length of his sentence is unknown.

Lina K 22/11/2023 Lina K 22/11/2023

China: Mosques Shuttered, Razed, Altered in Muslim Areas

The Chinese government is significantly reducing the number of mosques in Ningxia and Gansu provinces under its “mosque consolidation” policy, in violation of the right to freedom of religion, Human Rights Watch said today.

Lina K 30/08/2023 Lina K 30/08/2023

Genocide Tours: International Travel Companies in East Turkistan

This new report highlights the troubling industry of organized travel to the Uyghur region, with companies continuing to offer tours despite ongoing crimes against humanity and genocide.

Lina K 05/04/2023 Lina K 05/04/2023

Demolition of Kashgar’s Khan Bazaar creates uncertain future for Uyghur shop owners

Kashgar’s centuries-old Khan Bazaar, is being demolished by Chinese authorities. Authorities in China’s Xinjiang region say they want to upgrade the area and replace dilapidated structures.

Lina K 29/03/2023 Lina K 29/03/2023

In Istanbul, the last Uyghur bookshops struggle to survive

Caught between a vindictive Chinese state and Turkish police, Uyghur booksellers try to preserve their language and culture.

Lina K 03/03/2023 Lina K 03/03/2023

Uyghur teacher confirmed detained in Xinjiang for work on literature textbooks

A middle-school teacher is serving a 19-year prison sentence, likely for his participation in the writing of Uyghur textbooks two decades ago, despite them being approved by Chinese authorities.

Lina K 09/02/2023 Lina K 09/02/2023

The Complicity of Heritage: Cultural Heritage and Genocide in the Uyghur Region

This report highlights how China’s actions constitute what UNESCO calls “strategic cultural cleansing”, through systematic destruction of cultural heritage and targeting people on the basis of their ethnic affiliation.

Lina K 29/12/2022 Lina K 29/12/2022

Renowned Uyghur poet dies following prison release in Xinjiang

A renowned Uyghur writer and poet in poor health when released from prison died on Dec. 18 because he could not obtain food or medical treatment amid a strict coronavirus lockdown, according to local information.

Lina K 20/12/2022 Lina K 20/12/2022

UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions Publishes Opinion on Uyghur Writer

On December 20th, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions (WGAD) announced its opinion on renowned Uyghur writer Yalqun Rozi, who was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in 2016.

Lina K 22/11/2022 Lina K 22/11/2022

China is erasing their culture. In exile, Uyghurs remain defiant.

A growing Uyghur diaspora has found refuge—and a reconnection to their culture—in the neighborhoods of Istanbul.

Lina K 16/11/2022 Lina K 16/11/2022

Commission on China - Annual Report 2022

This year’s report documents the mass persecution that punctures the “Chinese human rights” narrative that Xi Jinping attempts to sell to the world.

Lina K 02/11/2022 Lina K 02/11/2022

Authorities in Xinjiang collect bodies of Uyghurs who died during COVID lockdown

Chinese authorities in Xinjiang arranged for the collection of bodies of Uyghur residents who died during a strict coronavirus lockdown, but did not allow their families to bury them in accordance with Uyghur customs and religious rituals.

Lina K 04/10/2022 Lina K 04/10/2022

Lack of Uyghur-language emergency services leads to more deaths in Xinjiang

Uyghur residents in a city in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region are suffering malnutrition and death despite the lifting of a coronavirus lockdown because of authorities’ failure to provide Uyghur language support for emergency services, locals said.

Lina K 20/09/2022 Lina K 20/09/2022

Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities

Assembling dozens of experts from the heritage, social science, humanitarian, legal, and military communities, this open-access book features a series of essays on the global value of cultural heritage, recent examples of intentional cultural heritage destruction across the globe, and how it can be protected.

Lina K 18/09/2022 Lina K 18/09/2022

The Black Gate: A Uyghur Family's Story, Part 1

This episode, the first of a two-part series, tells the story of one Uyghur man and his efforts to reunite with his wife and young children, who were detained by Chinese authorities. For two years, he had no idea what had happened to them.