China has repeatedly been accused of genocide for targeting the Uyghur people. It has also been claimed that Beijing has forcibly harvested the organs of other minority groups held prisoner, selling ...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority in China, living in Xinjiang province at a crossroads of culture and empire. Today it's estimated that more than 1 million Uyghur people ...

China is to triple the number of facilities it uses to forcibly harvest the organs of detained Uyghur people, it has been ...

And it's very unfortunate some people, including some journalists, they start with very strong bias and prejudice," China's ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai, told CNN in a March 25 interview.

The Uyghur people make up most of the population in the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Culturally Turkic, the Uyghurs have been a majority Muslim people since the 10th century.

Content Warning: This article discusses violence, torture and genocide. On Oct. 5, CNN published a whistleblower report from a Chinese ex-detective, detailing the brutal treatment of Uyghur ...

Activists upset with China’s treatment of the Uyghur people call for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing at a protest outside the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles on Feb. 3.

That's how we are, the Uyghur people—no matter how much difficulty we go through, we still find some kind of enjoyment from life. And that's how we lived, how we were before.

Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja has spent her career attempting to expose Chinese atrocities against her people. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP. When she asked for her blood pressure medication, she ...

AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: One of the most important scholars on Uyghur culture has been given a life prison sentence in China. Rahile Dawut is an expert on her culture's folklore and traditions.

One of the smallest populations of Uyghur people can be found in the Bay Area, with about 200 to 300 people — many who moved to study in the 1980s and 1990s. “it’s difficult to live without ...