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Uighurs

A protester from the Uighur community living in Turkey, participates in a protest in Istanbul, Oct. 1, 2020, against what they allege is oppression by the Chinese government to Muslim Uighurs in far-western Xinjiang province. 
US bans cotton products from China’s Uighur region over forced labor concerns
Kazakhs protest what they see as excessive expansion of Chinese influence in Kazakhstan, including new Silk Road investments, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Dec. 2019.
On China's New Silk Road
China’s new Silk Road traverses Kazakhstan. But some Kazakhs are skeptical of Chinese influence.
US Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are shown standing near each other and wearing dark suits.
Global Politics
China sanctions Cruz, Rubio, Smith, Brownback for criticism
An ethnic Uighur woman hugs her son as she stands outside her house with her daughter and neighbors
Reproductive rights
Sterilization abuse of Uighurs in China meets international legal criteria for genocide, experts say
Workers in hard hats and construction vests walking by a fence.
Conflict & Justice
How China uses malware to track Muslim Uighurs, even if they’ve fled the country
A woman holds up a picture of her father on a cellphone.
Immigration
Uighur restaurant owner speaks out: ‘I should fight for my father’
Demonstrators wave Turkish and East Turkestan flags as they shout slogans during a protest against China, in Istanbul, Turkey November 6, 2018.
Conflict & Justice
Turkey changes its tune on China’s crackdown against Muslims
A Chinese police officer talks to men in a street in the city of Kashgar, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China, on March 24, 2017.
China’s crackdown on Xinjiang’s Uighur Muslims draws international concern