Xinjiang camps

Instead, while the world slept, Chinese authoritarianism metastasized.

“The mass surveillance and internment project in Xinjiang should be viewed as a major test of Chinese capacities to conduct a sophisticated invasion, occupation, and transformation of spaces that were at the margins of Chinese control.”

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

YouTube's temporary suspension of a Kazakh human rights group’s channel highlights the risks of civil society's heavy reliance on the tech giants.

It will fall to the Biden administration to deal with the consequences of Pompeo’s statement on the crackdown 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.

The U.S.-China battle of the narratives over Xinjiang continues to heat up.

The Chinese Communist Party is “essentially waging a war against a portion of its own population (the Uyghur people), not as an ‘enemy,’ but as a ‘threat’ to society at large.”

Uniquely of all U.N. agencies, the ILO has the capacity to act without consensus, or in this case agreement from China.

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

The U.K. has been outspoken against the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang; rewarding major contracts to the architects of the surveillance system undermines this.