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Books
Disappeared Uyghur author’s novel translated into English for the first time
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, visits the community of Guyuanxiang in the Tianshan District in Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. 
Human rights
US companies reexamine supply chains under new law against Uyghur forced labor
A man holds a child as they watch a dance performance at the International Grand Bazaar in Urumqi in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Human rights
Leaked Xinjiang police files are a ‘devastating’ glimpse of abuses against Uyghur detainees in China, expert says
A protester holds a placard as she takes part in a small demonstration against the holding of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in China, at Piccadilly Circus in London, Feb. 3, 2022. 
Human rights
Uyghurs in Saudi Arabia risk deportation to China
Several signs and a wooden cross are shown next to a tree with a brick building in the distance.
Top of The World
First Nation in Canada finds hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school
Children ride on a motorcycle near a large billboard.
Human rights
New Zealand condemns China’s treatment of Uyghurs but won’t call it ‘genocide’
Merkel stands at a podium flanked by two German flags.
Top of The World
Merkel reverses plan for strict Easter lockdown in Germany
A protester is shown holding a large sign the has the words, "Stop China's Genocide" on it.
Top of The World
Canada’s parliament votes to call China’s treatment of Uighurs genocide
Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region, Nov. 4, 2017. A Chinese Communist Party official signaled Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, that there would likely be no let-up in its crackdown in the Xinjiang r
Justice
Undeterred by ICC decision, Uighurs hail EU, UK steps toward holding China accountable
Human rights
A Uighur poem of ‘unimaginable suffering’ travels from Chinese internment camp to New Jersey
This composite shows Uighur activist Ferkat Jawdat in front of the White House in Washington, March 28, 2019. His mother Minaiwaier Tuersun is pictured on the right shortly before she was detained in Xinjiang, China, in early 2018.
Foreign policy
House bill gives Uighurs ‘at least some hope’, Uighur activist says
Students play a soccer game on a basketball court at a boarding school for Uighur children on the outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey.
Education
In Turkey, a boarding school cares for Uighur children separated from their parents
Ferkat Jawdat, a Uighur living in Virginia, has asked the US government to pressure China to release minorities, including his mother, from "re-education camps." 
Justice
‘I just couldn’t sleep’: Uighur activist calls for China to stop targeting minorities
A woman's face appears amidst colorful signs protest against China's Uyghar detention centers.
Justice
China says Uighur detention centers fight terrorism, rejects UN criticism
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
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Global Politics
Report: China using ‘big data’ to crack down on suspected extremists
Riot police stand guard a checkpoint near the courthouse where ethnic Uighur academic Ilham Tohti's trial took place in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in mid-September.
Justice
China’s harsh punishment for a moderate Uighur could make things worse in Xinjiang
A woman pushes at Chinese paramilitary police wearing riot gear as a crowd of angry locals confront security forces on a street in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region on July 7, 2009.
Conflict
How China squeezes its Uighur minority — and how they’re fighting back
Guzailai Nu'er, the wife of Ilham Tohti, looks out the window of her house in Beijing as she does an interview over the phone with Reuters on January 17, 2014. Nu'er has been prevented from leaving by Chinese police.
Recent arrests show China taking a harder line on all forms of dissent
Justice
Former Guantanamo detainee now making pizza in Albania
Conflict & Justice
Where Will 5 Chinese Muslims Go After Gitmo?
Federal judge may order release of Chinese Guantanamo Bay detainees
Conflict & Justice
Debating the writ of habeas corpus for Guant-namo detainees
Arts, Culture & Media
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