She said policies should be implemented to presume all goods from the Uyghur region are tainted with forced labour, similar to the U.S. Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act.

He studied at Al-Azhar University in Egypt before seeking asylum in Germany in 1990, becoming one of the first Uyghurs to do so. He helped found the East Turkistan Union in Europe, the World Uyghur Youth Congress, and the World Uyghur Congress.

“This poses dangerous consequences far beyond the Uyghur community.” Campaign for Uyghurs founder Rushan Abbas speaks during an event at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 4, 2025.

And they were trying to pull in all the Uyghurs and Kazakhs back into the camps. There weren't many Uyghurs. The only Uyghurs were people who were in Tajikistan and so forth, selling things in the bazaars. They had been there for years.

Uyghurs, along with other persecuted minorities in China, are being forced into work camps by the regime, according to governments and human rights organizations.

Uyghurs abroad must undergo heavy vetting to visit Xinjiang, are often barred from staying with family, and are forced to join state-run propaganda tours in which speaking Uyghur is prohibited.

Starting that year, such spinsterhood became much more perilous, because more and more unwed Uyghur women were forced to marry ethnic Han Chinese.

With that kind of policy toward the Uyghurs, Uyghur women are facing forced sterilizations. Uyghur children are taken from their families. Reports show that about a million Uyghur children are taken from their families.

Both the Trump and Biden administrations have formally declared the Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghurs as “genocide” and “crimes against humanity.”

The Chinese national, Guan Heng, documented the camps where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.

Kanat’s comments came as Uyghur advocacy groups, including the Uyghur American Association and the Center for Uyghur Studies, met in Washington to ask officials around the world to take action.

The sanction came several weeks after Thailand sent back the 40 Uyghurs held in its custody for more than a decade.

The individuals deported last week were among hundreds of Uyghurs detained by Thai authorities in 2014 after they fled Xinjiang, which pro-independence Uyghur activists call East Turkistan.

Menikdiwela urged the Thai authorities to put an end to the forced return of Uyghur asylum seekers from the country. ‘High Risk of Torture’ The news of the transfer of Uyghurs to China raised concerns among lawmakers and activists.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms Thailand’s forced return of at least 40 Uyghurs to China, where they lack due process rights and where Uyghurs have faced persecution, forced labor, and torture,” Rubio said in a statement.

The Chinese Embassy said the Uyghur men were sent to Xinjiang on a chartered flight. In a letter in January, written in Uyghur language, the detained Uyghurs appealed to the international community for help.

The United States will add steel, copper, lithium, and two other products to its import restriction list under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Aug. 19.

Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Uyghur Congress, the individuals were among hundreds of Uyghurs detained by Thai authorities in 2014 after fleeing China's Xinjiang region, which pro-independence Uyghur activists call East Turkistan.

Zenz was one of the first researchers to expose the mass detention of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in internment camps in Xinjiang.

House of Representatives is expected to vote on the 2025 version of the Uyghur Policy Act, the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act, and more on the afternoon of Sept. 2.

to "immediately halt these deportations and to allow the Uyghurs to resettle in nations where they will be free from persecution."

Davos in the Desert will address the issues about the plight of the Uyghurs at 8:30 p.m. ET on Feb. 12.

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which concluded that serious human rights violations had been committed in Xinjiang, and that the detention of Uyghurs and other predominately Muslim minorities in the province "may constitute international

“Contrary to the Chinese government’s claims, its punitive campaign against millions of Uyghurs in Xinjiang continues to inflict great pain.”

A peer and human rights campaigner has urged the government to ensure that renewable energy supply chains are free from modern slavery, warning that Chinese solar products are "badly tainted" by Uyghur slave labour.

The report, titled "Uyghur Race as the Enemy: China’s Legalized Authoritarian Oppression and Mass Imprisonment," was co-authored by lead researcher Rayhan Asat, a human rights lawyer of Uyghur heritage.

Earlier this year, the House passed the Uyghur Policy Act to support Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in preserving their identities against the Chinese regime’s attempts to erase them from history.

members of other persecuted groups" out of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), said Labour MP and former cabinet minister Liam Byrne.

Ed Miliband has green lighted a solar farm project in England despite alleged risks of Uyghur forced labour. The Mallard Pass Solar Project was one of the three projects that were approved on Friday by Mr.