It is also the gravest example of a worldwide attack on human rights

Beijing denies the charge. But families and survivors describe mass detention and forced indoctrination. 

China rounded up so many Muslims in Xinjiang that there wasn’t enough space to hold them. Then the government started building.

Use this map to explore the 380 detention facilities and 900+ damaged or destroyed mosques and cultural sites across Xinjiang.

Download the Report The Chinese government has detained and “reeducated” more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang in an effort to fully secure and

(2020). If you don’t know how, just learn: Chinese housing and the transformation of Uyghur domestic space. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Ahead of Print.

Sometime between 10 and 17 March 2018, on a high sand dune 75 kilometres from the town of Niya, a beloved historical monument disappeared (Kuo 2019). For at least 450 years the site had drawn...

In an old Silk Road oasis town on China’s western border, these days a thirsty traveller can knock back a cold beer in a local mosque. The former place of worship is now a bar for tourists. And it is

In an old Silk Road oasis town on China’s western border, these days a thirsty traveller can knock back a cold beer in a local mosque. The former place of worship is now a bar for tourists. And it is

Soon after I arrived in Ürümchi in 2014 I met a young Uyghur man named Alim. He grew up in a small town near the city of Khotan in the deep south of the Uyghur homeland near the Chinese border with…

Summary Since late 2016, the Chinese government has subjected the 13 million ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang to mass arbitrary detention, forced political indoctrination, restri...

We, the undersigned organizations, join together to call for an international mechanism to address the Chinese government’s human rights violations, and urge you to take decisive action to achieve

Этнические казахи, переехавшие в Казахстан из Китая, сообщили репортеру Азаттыка о давлении, оказываемом на их оставшихся в Китае родственников и знакомых в рамках кампании «политического воспитани...

So many parents have been locked up that officials struggle to cope with the left-behind children

Bibliography of select news reports & academic works Compiled by Magnus Fiskesjö [nf42@cornell.edu].