Not content simply with dismantling Uyghur culture, the CCP is intent on stepping up the humiliation of the Turkic peoples of the Xinjiang region.
Ruth Ingram
Will Human Rights in China Become a Casualty of Brexit?
The British government is gearing itself up to free the country from the “shackles” of European law and pave the way for business UK-style; but human rights and “foreign threats” are getting in the way.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: Ethnic Kazakh Dissident Detained
She told Bitter Winter and the world she was in grave danger of being arrested. She was right.
Poetry Against Mass Atrocities: Poets Compare Notes on Jewish, Uyghur, and Other Genocides
Holocaust Memorial Week stirred flames of remembrance in the pens of exiled poets, displaced through their religion or politics.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: “Help Me, I Just Want to Leave China”
The ethnic Kazakh dissident tells Bitter Winter she continues to be embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the authorities as she waits under virtual house arrest in Urumqi.
Zhanargul Zhumatai: A Dramatic Interview with an Ethnic Kazakh Camp Survivor Who May Soon “Disappear”
Bitter Winter interviewed the 43-year-old artist in Urumqi, where the police is threatening to take her to a psychiatric hospital.
UK, the World Cup of Human Rights: Lords 1, Government and China 0
The campaign to prioritize human rights over expediency is pushing forward in the UK with a Lords victory over the government.
Uyghur Women Forced to Marry Han Chinese Men
Propaganda, incentives, and sheer coercion and blackmail have made the once rare interethnic marriages a daily occurrence.
China: Fire in Urumqi, Protests Everywhere—What Is Really Happening
A tragic fire in Urumqi has been the catalyst for mass protests in China and demands for the government to step down
UK: China Accused of a Wide Range of Abuses in the House of Lords
China’s human rights record comes under the spotlight again as peers debate the atrocities.
Ruth Ingram
Ruth Ingram is a researcher who has written extensively for the Central Asia-Caucasus publication, Institute of War and Peace Reporting, the Guardian Weekly newspaper, The Diplomat, and other publications.