Signs of the law’s rapid (and transnational) enforcement are deeply concerning.
Muslim Uyghurs
July 28: Remembering the Yarkent Massacre
Silence, disappearances, and the erasure of evidence followed the 2014 military assault on Uyghur civilians.
The East Turkestan Flag at the World Cup
Captured on CCTV broadcasts despite FIFA’s attempts at censorship, its waving was a significant fact for the Uyghurs—and the Chinese.
Reactions Mount Against the New Chinese Law on Ethnic Unity
The title of the new law, which came into force on July 1, 2026, invokes unity and progress, but it is just another form of crackdown.
Coming Together Against Silence: Reflections on the 3rd International Uyghur Forum, Ten Years After the Camps
The task ahead, the threats of the Chinese, the determination never to yield. When holding a conference becomes an act of resistance.
What Lobga Rangzen’s Self-Immolation in New York Tells the Uyghurs
A Tibetan offered his life for freedom. Uyghurs and Tibetans stand together against the same colonial machinery of oppression.
Uyghur Fathers, Uyghur Children: Persecution and Resilience Across Generations
An exile’s tragic and loving story of wisdom, compassion, and assassination.
July 5: The Urumqi Massacre’s Unanswered Questions
Seventeen years after the tragedy, the questions still matter. A Uyghur view. by Asiye Uyghur Chinese tanks in Urumqi, 2009. From X. Seventeen years have passed since the July 5, 2009, Urumqi massacre. Yet the questions raised on that day have never disappeared. They...
Stop Uyghur Forced Labor: An Event in the UK Parliament
Activists and campaigners pool resources to see the scourge of Uyghur forced labor eradicated in Xinjiang.
China’s Ethnic Unity Law: Diaspora Minorities Unite to Protest
Coalition of Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongolians, and Hongkongers urges Dutch Parliament to act against the law.