Lina K 21/01/2025 Lina K 21/01/2025

Authorities shut down Uyghur farmers' water wells in southern Xinjiang

But reports of unauthorized wells dug by Han Chinese in the area have largely gone unaddressed.

Lina K 24/12/2024 Lina K 24/12/2024

Illegal wells in Xinjiang spark tension and dry up the land

The discovery of 46 illegal wells dug by Chinese migrants in the far western region of Xinjiang has intensified tension with Uyghur residents and disrupted the ecological balance of the region.

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

Driving Force - Automotive Supply Chains and Forced Labour in the Uyghur Region

This report is the result of a six-month investigation analysing publicly available documents, which revealed massive and expanding links between western car brands and Uyghur abuses.

Lina K 02/08/2022 Lina K 02/08/2022

Uyghur poet and educator said to be serving 13-year prison term in Xinjiang

A prominent Uyghur poet and associate professor at a was detained as a “threat to social stability” and sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2017 on a “separatism” charge, a local police officer told RFA.

Lina K 01/08/2022 Lina K 01/08/2022

Satellite photos show China's new nuclear test site in Xinjiang

China is expanding its nuclear test facilities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, an analysis of satellite photographs obtained by Nikkei suggests.

Lina K 26/07/2022 Lina K 26/07/2022

Until Nothing is Left: China’s Settler Corporation and its Human Rights Violations in the Uyghur Region

This report documents the human rights violations of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a state-run paramilitary organisation.

Lina K 16/07/2022 Lina K 16/07/2022

China’s Xi, in Xinjiang, signals no change to Uyghur policy

Chinese leader Xi Jinping, on a visit this week to the Xinjiang region where his government is widely accused of oppressing predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities, showed no signs of backing off policies that have come under harsh criticism from the U.S. and many European countries.

Lina K 01/07/2022 Lina K 01/07/2022

Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - XPCC Policy Brief

This Policy Brief from the Xinjiang Sanctions research project summarises its key findings, contextualising the role of the XPCC within Beijing’s governmental strategies for the region.

Lina K 01/07/2022 Lina K 01/07/2022

Making Xinjiang Sanctions Work - Full Report

Can economic sanctions address Xinjiang forced labour? Drawing on 3 original datasets containing over 12,000 datapoints, confidential interviews and a year of research, this final report presents the most comprehensive analysis of Xinjiang sanctions to date, and offers ideas for strengthening them.

Lina K 07/06/2022 Lina K 07/06/2022

Long Shadows: How the Global Economy Supports Oppression in Xinjiang

This report uncovers how companies perpetrating forced labor and human rights abuses in Xinjiang are enmeshed in global trade and finance despite severe multilateral sanctions designed to cut them off from international markets.

Lina K 19/10/2021 Lina K 19/10/2021

The architecture of repression: Unpacking Xinjiang’s governance

This report is a part of a larger online project which can be found on the Xinjiang Data Project website. The project maps and analyses the governance mechanisms employed by the Chinese party-state in Xinjiang from 2014 to 2021 within the context of the region’s ongoing human rights crisis. The authors have located and scrutinised thousands of Chinese-language sources, including leaked police records and government budget documents never before published. For policymakers, this report will provide an evidence base to inform policy responses including possible sanctions. For the general public and anyone whose interests are linked to Xinjiang and China more broadly, this project can inform risk analysis and ethical considerations.

Lina K 26/02/2021 Lina K 26/02/2021

Part 3: Explaining Variation in the Growth and Decline of Detention Facilities across Xinjiang

This report explores trends in the growth and decline of nighttime lighting over detention facilities across Xinjiang. It reveals evidence to suggest that long-term prisons have become a greater priority than reeducation centers, helping chart the current trajectory of China’s widespread detention of Uyghur and ethnic minority populations in the region.

Lina K 01/12/2020 Lina K 01/12/2020

China’s ‘tainted’ cotton

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC. Based on newly discovered online documents, it provides the first clear picture of the potential scale of forced labour in the picking of a crop that accounts for a fifth of the world’s cotton supply and is used widely throughout the global fashion industry.

Lina K 21/09/2020 Lina K 21/09/2020

China’s system of oppression in Xinjiang: How it developed and how to curb it

This report describes the history of Uyghur oppression in Xinjiang, outlining the current conditions in the region and Chinese surveillance policies, as well as policy recommendations for addressing the ongoing oppression.

Lina K 22/12/2003 Lina K 22/12/2003

Bingtuan Supreme Court Affirms Jail Terms for Uyghur Youths

The Bingtuan Supreme Court in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region has upheld jail terms for 18 youths belonging to the Uyghur ethnic minority for alleged anti-Chinese separatist activities, RFA’s Uyghur service reports.

Lina K 31/03/1999 Lina K 31/03/1999

Gross violations of human rights in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region (includes erratum)

This report describes a pattern of gross violations of human rights in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. These violations include arbitrary detention and imprisonment, unfair political trials, torture, and arbitrary and summary executions. The main victims of these violations are the Uighurs, the majority ethnic group among the predominently Muslim local population in the region.

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