Lina K 03/02/2025 Lina K 03/02/2025

China restricts travel for Uyghurs with onerous requirements: report

Authorities permit some trips to portray a public image of normalcy in the region.

Lina K 03/02/2025 Lina K 03/02/2025

China: Travel for Uyghurs Heavily Restricted

The Chinese government is maintaining severe restrictions, conditions, and controls on Uyghurs who seek to travel abroad in violation of their internationally protected right to leave the country, in a new report from Human Rights Watch.

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 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 19/08/2024 Lina K 19/08/2024

7 brothers from prominent Uyghur family confirmed jailed in Xinjiang

China arrested them on flimsy charges during mass incarcerations that started in 2017.

Lina K 01/04/2024 Lina K 01/04/2024

Uyghur Stories: How Yalkun Uluyol Lost His Father—and Thirty Family Members

In the absence of police reports or court hearings, he only discovered his father’s fate - 16 years in jail - after two years of searching.

Lina K 27/03/2024 Lina K 27/03/2024

Learning From the Deportation and Imprisonment of Uyghur Imam

Eighteen years ago, Canadian citizen, imam, and Uyghur human rights activist Huseyin Celil was deported from Uzbekistan to China, where he received a life sentence for his support of Uyghur rights.

Lina K 18/08/2023 Lina K 18/08/2023

Prominent Uyghur activist learns about father’s death in Xinjiang months after demise

Hearing about a relative’s death months or years later is not unusual for Uyghurs living abroad. In many cases, the circumstances of the death remain unclear.

Lina K 20/06/2023 Lina K 20/06/2023

From Fear to Freedom: A Uyghur’s Journey

For decades, Kasim Kashgar has lived in fear: first as a Uyghur living in China's Xinjiang region under Beijing's repressive policies, and later as an exile, acutely aware of the risk to his family in China if he speaks out.

Lina K 01/03/2023 Lina K 01/03/2023

Uyghur woman serving 21 years in jail for sending children to religious school

Twenty years ago, when a Uyghur woman sent her three children to a local religious school, little did she know that her action would later land her in prison for 21 years in prison.

Lina K 16/02/2023 Lina K 16/02/2023

New search tool helps Uyghurs discover fate of missing loved ones in China

A new tool allows anyone to search the Xinjiang Police Files for their missing family members, and find out their detention status, reasons for detention and prison sentences.

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

'He looks like he's lost his soul': Uyghur man finds brother in leaked police files

Uyghurs living abroad are using a new search tool, compiled from thousands of leaked Chinese police files, to track down their long-lost families after years of separation and silence.

Lina K 05/02/2023 Lina K 05/02/2023

Beijing Stands Firm Against Reports of Uyghur Detentions

Contrary to Beijing’s claims of “harmony” in Xinjiang, some Uyghurs living abroad, unable to freely contact their family members in Xinjiang for years, say that Chinese authorities have recently detained their loved ones.

Lina K 26/01/2023 Lina K 26/01/2023

US-based Uyghur man calls on China to release his 19-year-old sister

A Uyghur man working in the United States has called on Chinese authorities in Xinjiang to release his sister, who was detained after posting video about the recent 'white paper' protests across China.

Lina K 21/12/2022 Lina K 21/12/2022

Uyghur nutritionist confirmed detained in China’s Xinjiang

Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region have detained a well-known Uyghur nutritionist for messages he posted on social media, according to police reports.

Lina K 17/11/2022 Lina K 17/11/2022

China sentences mother of Uyghur Dutch airman to 15 years for visiting him abroad

Chinese authorities have sentenced the mother and sister-in-law of an ethnic Uyghur member of the Dutch air force to 15 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism and revealing state secrets, Radio Free Asia reports.

Lina K 25/09/2022 Lina K 25/09/2022

The Black Gate: A Uyghur Family's Story, Part 2

In the second and final part of NPR’s series "The Black Gate: A Uyghur's Family's Story," a Uyghur man returns to China to find his children who've been sent to "boarding schools" and his wife who's spent two years in prison.

Lina K 21/09/2022 Lina K 21/09/2022

100 Camp Testimonies

In "100 Camp Testimonies," former internees share first-hand accounts of the camps, and how family members, relatives, and friends have been arbitrarily incarcerated.

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.

Lina K 16/09/2022 Lina K 16/09/2022

Fearing for the safety of their families in China, most Uyghur-Australians choose to remain silent

Uyghurs who have migrated overseas are a major source of information for human rights groups. Many Uyghurs remain silent out of concern for the safety of family members.

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