China Uyghur crackdown

Qelbinur Sedik reveals the horrors she witnessed in the camps, where she was forced to teach Mandarin in 2017.

The oppression in Xinjiang is a test as to whether nations actually adhere to the principle of Responsibility to Protect.

After years of pressure from Congress and human rights activists, Washington has enacted sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the crackdown on Uyghurs.

Even while China loosens restrictions on family size elsewhere, rates of forced birth control and sterilization are growing in Xinjiang.

Trump signed a law sanctioning Chinese officials responsible for anti-Uyghur policies even as allegations leaked that the U.S. president had encouraged China in the constriction of detention camps.

In trying to deny any cause for concern, a government spokesperson only helped justify fears.

How “war on terror” rhetoric contributed to the repression of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China.

The international community no longer has an excuse to stay silent. It must act.

Social media is starting to convey some signs of life from Xinjiang’s disappeared.

The Chinese government routinely carries out surveillance, threats, and coercion targeting Uyghurs on American soil.

The mass internment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang merits a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Even as a foreign tourist, the scale of the 2009 crackdown in Xinjiang was evident.