A hospital in Aksu in the Xinjiang region that was previously dedicated to fighting infectious diseases has apparently been turned into an internment camp. Uyghur activists fear that the camp is being used by the Chinese regime for harvesting organs from inmates. Harvesting organs Bahtiyar Omar, the director of the Norway-based Uyghur Transitional Justice Database ...
Canada’s Parliamentary Subcommittee on International Human Rights recently issued a press release in which it condemned the Chinese government’s brutal Uyghur persecution in Xinjiang, calling it genocide. The subcommittee found that more than 2 million Uyghur and other Turkic ethnic people have been detained, including children as young as 13 years of age. Uyghur persecution ...
A recent report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has revealed the extent to which the Chinese regime is erasing the cultural identity of the Uyghur minority population in Xinjiang, which is cultural genocide. The aim of Beijing is to homogenize Uighurs into the country’s Han Chinese majority, even if that means erasing their ...
A video advert seeking 100 Uyghur brides for “urgent” marriage to Han Chinese has raised a storm online, with rights activists accusing Beijing of trying to racially sinicize the community. The ad initially appeared on the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, but was later deleted after immense online opposition by Uyghur people living abroad. Campaign ...
Merdan Ghappar is a 31-year-old Uyghur from Xinjiang who has worked as a model for numerous clothing brands. In January this year, Chinese authorities arrested and sent him to a detention center. He hasn’t been heard from since March. Fortunately, Merdan Ghappar was able to sneak out a video and some text messages that ended ...
The Trump administration has expressed concern about long-standing allegations that people imprisoned by the Chinese authorities for their faith are being murdered for their organs, which is called forced organ harvesting. On July 20, U.S. State Department officials condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong, as adherents marked 21 years since the beginning ...
Beijing is thinking of suing China expert Adrian Zenz for his recent report that brings to light the communist regime’s forced sterilization campaign targeting female Uyghurs. In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Zenz points out that the threat of a lawsuit is an apparent attempt to prevent him from exposing the heinous activities of ...
Wang Quanzhang, a human rights lawyer from China who was jailed in 2015, has filed a complaint alleging that he was tortured during interrogations and forced to plead guilty by officials. He was arrested in 2015 as part of Beijing’s nationwide crackdown on legal rights activists. Dubbed the “709 Crackdown,” over 200 lawyers and associates ...
A new report by China expert Adrian Zenz reveals that China is conducting forced sterilization campaigns on Uyghur women from the Xinjiang region in a bid to reduce the community’s population. Zenz warns that such Chinese policies are equivalent to a demographic genocide and wants an international investigation into the matter. Forced sterilization of Uyghur ...
In May, the U.S. issued a detention order on hair products manufactured by a Chinese company called Hetian Haolin Hair Accessories Co. Ltd. The company has operations in the controversial Xinjiang region where Beijing has detained millions of Uyghur people in “re-education” camps. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has come across information that ...