“It has become a crime to be Uighur in China.” Jewher Ilham, a Uyghur activist from China, made this disturbing assertion this week at a religious freedom event on the… Read More

Abdullah Rasul, 35, a Uighur refugee living in Turkey, says that he has so little contact with his family in China that it took three months for him… Read More

Australia’s Foreign Minister and members of the Uyghur community have condemned a “deeply disturbing” and “horrifying” video of Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang that has surfaced online. The footage… Read More

Human rights groups say China is holding one million people, mostly ethnic Uighurs, at detention camps – a charge Beijing denies. Online footage purporting to show hundreds of… Read More

Jewish World Watch (JWW) is proud to report two major accomplishments in our advocacy work related to the Uyghur (or Uighur) human rights crisis, which we have deemed… Read More

The World Uyghur Congress on Monday came down heavily on Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan over his “double standards” and turning a blind eye towards the issue concerning the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China, saying it… Read More

(New York) – Chinese authorities should immediately release to their families children held in “child welfare” institutions and boarding schools in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should… Read More