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 ...

Women walk past a propaganda slogan promoting ethnic unity in "the new era," in both Chinese and Uyghur languages, in Yarkant, northwestern China's Xinjiang region, on July 18. (Pedro Pardo/AFP ...

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.

Star Uyghur Scholar Who Vanished Was Sentenced to Life in China Rahile Dawut, who recorded her people’s traditions, disappeared in 2017. New information indicates that she faces decades in prison.

It is now one of the world’s last shops selling literature written in the Uyghur language, after China launched its crackdown on the Muslim community that saw more than a million detained and ...

Perhat Tursun's novel explores human rights abuses against China's Uyghur minority through one man's search for a home. The author himself has been imprisoned and a co-translator has disappeared.

A chilling first-person account of the Uyghur cultural genocide has come from Gulbahar Haitiwaji, who survived more than two years in Chinese-run camps.

DeepSeek said China was committed to the “social harmony” and “sustained development” of Xinjiang. Zumretary Arkin, 31, has not heard from her family since 2017, and like many Uyghurs, is ...

Ethnic Uyghur demonstrators set fire to a makeshift Chinese flag during a protest against China, near the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, Turkey Dec. 4, 2022. (Reuters/Dilara Senkaya / Reuters Photos) ...

The name Xinjiang was slapped on the Uyghur homeland in 1884, after its conquest by China’s last imperial dynasty. Located in the vastness of Central Asia, closer to Kashmir than Beijing, the ...

WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide. By Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman. Penguin, 272 pages, $28.

The Chinese government should quash the conviction and release Ilham Tohti, the prominent Uyghur economist and government critic, on the 10th anniversary of his sentencing.