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.
Starting Points:
- Agriculture Supply Chain
- Anti Terrorism Framework
- Assimilation
- Automotive Supply Chain
- Autonomy
- Becoming Family Campaign
- Beijing Olympics
- Belt and Road Initiative
- Biometrics
- Camp Construction
- Censorship
- Chen Quanguo
- China Cables
- Chinese Politics
- Chinese Responses
- Clothing Supply Chain
- Context
- Coronavirus
- Cotton Supply Chain
- Cultural Repression
- Cultural Revolution
- Deaths in custody
- Deportation
- Detention
- Disinformation
- Ethnic Policy
- Ethnic Relations
- Eyewitness Accounts
- Facial Recognition
- Family Separation
- Food Supply Chain
- Forced Labour
- Genocide Discussion
- Government Policy
- Han Migration
- History of China
- IJOP
- Ilham Tohti
- Influential Uyghurs Detained
- International Reactions
- International Relations
- Islam in China
- Karakax List
- Key Players
- Labour Transfers
- Leaked Documents
- Legislative Action
- Linked Organisations
- Ma Xingrui
- Mao Zedong
- Michelle Bachelet Visit
- Movement Restrictions
- Organ Harvesting
- Overview Reports
- Policing
- PVC Supply Chain
- Rahile Dawut
- Reeducation
- Reeducation Camps
- Reeducation Through Labour
- Reform Through Labour
- Religious Policy
- Religious Repression
- Renewables Supply Chain
- Reproductive Restrictions
- Sanctions
- Satellite Imagery
- Securitization
- Sexual Assault
- Sinicization
- Solar Energy Supply Chain
- Stability Maintenance
- Strike Hard Campaign
- Supply Chains
- Surveillance
- Technology Supply Chain
- Thought Reform
- Tibet
- Torture
- United Front Work Department
- Urumqi Fire
- Urumqi Riot
- Uyghur Culture
- Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
- Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act
- Uyghur Policy Act
- Uyghur Tribunal
- Victim Accounts
- Victim Lists
- Violence in Xinjiang
- War on Terror
- Xi Jinping
- Xinjiang Aid
- Xinjiang Demographics
- Xinjiang History
- Xinjiang Papers
- Xinjiang Police Files
- Xinjiang Victims Database
- XPCC
- ABC News
- Adrian Zenz
- Agence France Presse
- Al Jazeera
- Amnesty International
- ANU Press
- AP News
- Asia Dialogue
- Asia Freedom Institute
- Asian Survey
- ASPI
- Atlantic Council
- Axios
- BBC
- BESA Center
- Bitter Winter
- Bloomberg
- Brill Publishers
- Brookings Institute
- Business Insider
- Buzzfeed News
- C4ADS
- Cambridge University Press
- Canbury Press
- CBC News
- Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting
- Central Asian Survey
- Chicago University Press
- China Change
- China Digital Times
- China File
- China Leadership Monitor
- Chinese Human Rights Defenders
- Chinese Media Project
- Citizen Truth
- CNN
- Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labour
- Coda Story
- Columbia University Press
- Commonweal
- Congressional Executive Commission on China
- CSIS
- Der Spiegel
- Deutsche Welle
- Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation
- E-International Relations
- East West Center
- Economic and Political Weekly
- Essex Court Chambers
- EU European External Action Service
- Fair Observer
- Fashion United
- Financial Times
- Forbes
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Foreign Policy
- Fortune
- Freedom House
- Freedom United
- Getty
- Global Voices
- Government of Canada
- Harper Collins
- Harvard University Press
- Helena Kennedy Centre
- History Today
- Hong Kong Watch
- Hope Not Hate
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- Human Rights Foundation
- Human Rights In China
- Human Rights Watch
- Hunter University
- i News
- ICIJ
- Informed Comment
- Inner Asia
- Insider
- International Service for Human Rights
- IPVM
- Irish Independent
- Jacobin
- Jamestown Foundation
- Japan Uyghur Association
- Jewish Museum
- Journal of Political Risk
- Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
- Korea Times
- LA Times
- La Trobe University
- Lawfare
- Living Otherwise
- Loop Media
- Made in China Journal
- Manchester University Press
- Metro
- Middle East Monitor
- Milestone Journal
- Monacelli Press
- National Geographic
- NBC
- New Lines Magazine
- New Statesman
- New York Times
- New Yorker
- Newlines Institute
- Newsweek
- Nikkei
- NL Times
- NPR
- Open Democracy
- Open Secrets
- Pacific Standard
- Pen Opp
- Persuasion Magazine
- Politico
- Politics Home
- Quartz
- Radio Free Asia
- Radio Free Europe
- RAND Corporation
- Remake
- Reuters
- Routledge
- SBS World News
- Scribe Publications
- Shado Mag
- Shawn Zhang
- SOAS
- Society and Space
- Stanford FSI
- Steptoe
- Strategic Studies Institute
- Supchina
- Sustainable Brands
- Swiss Info
- Tech UK
- The Art Newspaper
- The Asan Forum
- The Asia Pacific Journal
- The Atlantic
- The Breakthrough Institute
- The China Quarterly
- The Diplomat
- The Dispatch
- The Economist
- The Globe and Mail
- The Globe Post
- The Guardian
- The Independent
- The Intercept
- The Mail on Sunday
- The Rights Practice
- The Verge
- The Washington Post
- Tibetan Review
- Time
- Top10VPN
- Toronto Star
- Transnational Institute
- United Nations
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Nottingham Rights Lab
- University of Sheffield
- University of South Australia
- University of Washington
- US Customs and Border Protection
- USA Today
- Uyghur Forced Labor Database
- Uyghur Human Rights Project
- Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project
- Uyghur Transitional Justice Database
- Uyghur Tribunal
- Verso Books
- Vice News
- Voice of America
- Voices on Central Asia
- Vox
- War on the Rocks
- Wilson Center
- World Politics Review
- World Uyghur Congress
- Xinjiang Victims Database
- Yahoo News
- Yale University
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.
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”.
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”.
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.
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.
Pakistan-based Uyghur businessmen praise China during Xinjiang visit
Activists say Beijing-funded trip was meant to dispel accusations of genocide in the region.
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.
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.
Uyghur entrepreneur serving 18 years for charitable contributions
Elijan Ismail was sentenced for “inciting separatism” because the recipients of his donations included families of political prisoners.
American drug firms accused of clinical trials in Uyghur region
American pharmaceutical companies are carrying out drug trials in Xinjiang, where the United States says a genocide of the Uyghur population is taking place, U.S. lawmakers say.
Uyghur Race as the Enemy: China’s Legalized Authoritarian Oppression & Mass Imprisonment
This report explores how China’s systematic, large-scale imprisonment of Uyghurs not only amounts to a crime against humanity, but also dangerous lawfare at mass scale.
Uyghurs sentenced to cumulative 4.4 million years in prison: study
China’s repression could lead to a ‘total ethnic incapacitation for the Uyghur people,’ author says.
7 brothers from prominent Uyghur family confirmed jailed in Xinjiang
China arrested them on flimsy charges during mass incarcerations that started in 2017.
TikTok promotes pro-China bias on Tibet, Taiwan, Uyghurs: study
The findings show Beijing’s attempts to sway public opinion, particularly among youth, experts say.
US blacklists five more Chinese firms over Uyghur slavery
The companies produce magnesium and copper for export, and are accused of profiting from the slave labor of Uyghurs trapped in what Beijing calls “poverty alleviation” programs.
Former Uyghur official confirmed serving jail sentence for ‘two-faced’ actions
Having appealed to Chinese soldiers not to shoot two Uyghur officials during a violent incident in Xinjiang a decade ago, Ahat Sayit was arrested in 2017 and later sentenced to 20 years.
No Uyghurs from Xinjiang went on Hajj pilgrimage, data shows
Muslims in China need government permission to make the pilgrimage. Of more than a thousand registered pilgrims from China, no Uyghurs or other Muslims from Xinjiang were included in the tally.
Uyghur group wins appeal to probe alleged Uyghur slave labor
Reversing a previous ruling, an appeals court in the UK ordered that the country’s National Crime Agency reconsider whether to investigate if cotton imports from Xinjiang allegedly use Uyghur slave labor.
NCA failure to investigate imports linked to forced Uyghur labour unlawful, court rules
The National Crime Agency’s decision not to launch an investigation into the importation of cotton products manufactured by forced labour in Xinjiang was unlawful, the court of appeal has found.
Activists slam Euro 2024 for Chinese sponsors’ links to Uyghur forced labor
Human rights activists have criticized organizers of the 2024 UEFA European soccer tournament for forging sponsorship contracts with Chinese companies whose supply chains have been found to use Uyghur forced labor.