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Source: Deutsche Welle VW is under pressure for working with the Chinese government in Xinjiang after evidence of human rights abuses against Uighurs in the region. Meanwhile, the German and US governments urged China to uphold human rights. As international

Source: Radio Free Asia Newly leaked Chinese government documents include the first known “manual” for operating internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), providing local authorities with guidelines on how to prevent escapes, keep the program a secret,

Source: Radio Free Asia Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in as many as 1,300 to 1,400 internment camps, one of the world’s foremost experts on

Source: ICIJ A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s Orwellian system of mass surveillance and “predictive policing.” The

Source: NBC News Zumrat Dawut was at her home in northwestern China in March 2018 when she received a phone call instructing her to report to the local police station. In the previous year, Dawut said she, like countless other

Source: KYODO NEWS A comic by a Japanese artist based on the testimony of a Uyghur woman who was detained and tortured in China after giving birth abroad, has gone viral on social media. Titled “What has happened to me,” the Japanese

Source: Ursula Gauthier In China’s Xinjiang province, one million Uighurs, Turkic speakers and Muslims, are imprisoned in concentration camps to be « re-educated ». A former Kazakh prisoner of Uighur origin testifies to the horror. In a Spartan apartment on the outskirts of

Source: The Globe Post During the early 1980s, in the villages surrounding Hotan, a city in the Uyghur region in western China, residents worked diligently to raise funds and construct new mosques. In a brief period of loosening restrictions following

Source: The Wall Street Journal An extraordinary leak from within China’s Communist Party government sheds new light on President Xi Jinping’s campaign of repression against Muslim Uighurs in the western Xinjiang region. The scale of the crackdown laid bare, on

Source: The New York Times A set of Chinese Communist Party documents was leaked to The New York Times and published last weekend. They not only reveal the rationale and implementation of the Chinese Communist Party’s policies in Xinjiang, a nominally autonomous