ethnic Kazakhs in China

The Kazakh public generally remains silent about the plight of ethnic Kazakh detainees held in Xinjiang. The education system is one reason why.

Despite Xi’s warm official reception in Kazakhstan, the general population is disturbed by reports of oppression aimed at Kazakhs in China.

Three years after fleeing China, an ethnic Kazakh man continues to struggle to find a safe place to land.

The plight of Kazakhs detained in Xinjiang’s “re-education” camps has not gained widespread public support among ethnic Kazakhs in Kazakhstan.

Several activists well-known for picketing the Chinese consulate in Almaty have reportedly been detained in Kazakhstan.

Ethnic Kazakhs who fled Xinjiang are caught in an awkward vortex of domestic politics, international pressures, and the legacies of ethnicity and nationalism in Kazakhstan. 

Revisiting “Winter Pasture,” an early chronicle of the hardships endured by a Xinjiang-based minority group.

In Almaty, Kazakhstan's former capital and largest city, a group of mostly old women have continued to protest Chinese policies in Xinjiang.

Bilash headed a group advocating for greater attention to the ethnic Kazakhs detained in China’s camps in Xinjiang. It got him in trouble with the Kazakh government.

New revelations bring to light financial abuses of those interned in China’s “training centers” in Xinjiang.

Murager Alimuly and Qaster Musakhanuly were given one-year prison sentences, but a Kazakh court declined to deport them.