All Reading

This section contains a curated list of useful articles, investigations, books and other reading materials. The list is updated on a weekly basis and suggestions for additions are welcome.

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Satellite Imagery of Camps, Prisons & Cultural Destruction

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 24/05/2022 Lina K 24/05/2022

Uyghur detention: Leaked files reveal locations of lost loved ones

A huge collection of data, which are linked to China's treatment of Uyghurs and other minorities, has been handed to the BBC. The cache reveals, in unprecedented detail, China’s use of “re-education” camps and formal prisons as two separate but related systems of mass detention for Uyghurs. They also include information on missing people, seen for the first time by their family members.

Lina K 01/03/2022 Lina K 01/03/2022

China ordered a Uyghur journalist extradited to Xinjiang. His wife has taken to the Istanbul streets to stop it

Every day is a protest for Buzainuer Wubuli, 28, and her three young children. Her husband, Idris Hasan (Yidiresi Aishan), is a journalist, computer engineer and activist. He is one of the thousands of Uyghurs living abroad being sought out by Chinese authorities in an attempt to bring them back to Xinjiang.

Lina K 04/02/2022 Lina K 04/02/2022

The Crisis in Xinjiang: What’s Happening Now and What Does it Mean?

Policies implemented by the CCP in Xinjiang since 2016 have become a central issue in PRC international relations. This talk reviews the Xinjiang crisis to date and suggests how we should understand these events and trends.

Lina K 23/02/2021 Lina K 23/02/2021

Between Dictatorship and Democracy. Life of Sairagul Sauytbay in Sweden

Sairagul Sauytbay talks about what she had to endure in the “political re-education camps” in Xinjiang. She escaped political repression in China in 2018 and crossed the border with Kazakhstan illegally, has been living in Sweden for a year and a half, where the Swedish government granted her political asylum.

Lina K 03/02/2021 Lina K 03/02/2021

China's Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape

Women in China's "re-education" camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured, according to detailed new accounts obtained by the BBC.

Lina K 10/08/2020 Lina K 10/08/2020

WATCH: Undercover in the Most Dystopian Place in the World

A reporter poses as a tourist to gain unprecedented access to China’s Xinjiang region, where at least a million Uighurs have been detained in massive internment camps.