In a decision awaited with interest in political and diplomatic circles, the Court of Zharkent, Kazakhstan, has ruled that a Chinese Muslim woman, who entered the country illegally, should not be deported to China, where she would face imprisonment and torture. Bitter...
An Uyghur couple from Xinjiang under government-sanctioned persecution. The local police in Shanshan County detained an Uyghur man in May this year. His wife, Ms. Gulnur (pseudonym) says his crime was reading Quran with an imam for a month thirty years ago. As per the...
Schools and other state-owned buildings in Wusu city, Xinjiang, are being converted into “transformation through education” camps for Uyghur Muslims. According to an informed source, a Party school in Wusu has recently been turned into a “transformation through...
Pazil Utuⱪ, an Uyghur Muslim from an old and well-known Muslim family in Xinjiang, was shot dead after a massive manhunt mobilizing over 70,000 people. Thirty-year-old Pazil Utuⱪ, an ethnic Uyghur, came from an old and well-known Muslim family, which explains the...
At a side event during the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, doctors report about organs being removed from Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and other prisoners of conscience in China, and used for transplant. In 2006, reports that corneas were being removed from Falun...
The U.S. Congressional Commission on China, chaired by Senator Marco Rubio, heard experts and witnesses on the growing persecution of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. During the week of the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a gathering of more than 80 Foreign...
Eyewitnesses reveal that a vocational training center has been turned into a “transformation through education” camp in Bole city, Xinjiang. Informed sources report that a vocational training center located at No. 13 Qiancheng Road, Nancheng in Xinjiang’s Bole has...
Elementary and middle school students in the region are being forced to abandon their religious belief. Preceding the holy month of Ramadan in May this year, the head teacher at a school in Xinjiang’s Turpan issued a verbal directive for all Uyghur or Islamic imagery...
Ambassador Brownback and witnesses denounce Chinese repression of religious liberty at the Washington D.C. Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. At the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a gathering of foreign ministers of 80 countries organized by the U.S....
Three victims tell stories of ordinary persecution for the Muslims, arrested simply for growing a beard, wearing a headscarf or reading the Quran. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was established in 1955. History, however, has proved that it is “autonomous” in...