The Chinese regime has used the excuse that Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists who plot attacks and stir up tensions with the ethnic Han Chinese majority to crack down on the local population in Xinjiang.

A re-education camp in Xinjiang, China.

The European Union expressed similar concern about Xinjiang last week.

“Not only is that a violation of the UFLPA [Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act], but some of these farms in Xinjiang are certified as sustainable by U.S.

facilities in southern Xinjiang.

The Chinese regime has used the excuse of potential Islamic threats and ethnic riots to crack down on the local population in Xinjiang. Muslim majority nations have mostly remained silent over the situation in Xinjiang.

Over the years, Xinjiang has been transformed into a vast security state, packed with police stations, street cameras, and security checkpoints at which electronic identity cards are scanned.

Dozens of Chinese companies are already on the Commerce Department’s "Entity List," though none with an explicit, direct link to the oppression in Xinjiang.

In August, a United Nations human-rights panel estimated that 1 million Uyghurs were currently being held in camps for political indoctrination inside Xinjiang.

Uyghur man Kasim in Xinjiang claims that this hospital in Xinjiang was transformed into a concentration camp.

A genuine account would include the mass internment and cultural suppression of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region; the dismantling of Hong Kong’s autonomy and independent judiciary under the National Security Law, in breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration

in Xinjiang.

Security conditions in Xinjiang outside the camps had also intensified markedly and now bear "a striking resemblance to those inside," Hong Kong-based Human Rights Watch researcher Maya Wang said, based on interviews with 58 former Xinjiang residents

Uyghur and Kazakhstan national Gulbakhar Jalilova, 54, said she witnessed the atrocities during her 15-month internment in an all-female camp in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi before she was released in September.

: a recruitment notice for southern Xinjiang residents to visit a job fair to be held in Urumqi.

Word of the deportation raised concerns among Uyghur rights activists due to the Chinese regime's yearslong campaign of assimilation in Xinjiang, its far-western region that is home to over 11 million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.

Ma stepped down as Party chief of the far-western Xinjiang region in July 2025. Since then, Xinjiang has seen multiple senior Party officials fall from grace, including Zhu Changjie, who had long served in the region's security apparatus.

"The Chinese government is creating a high-tech police state in [Xinjiang] that is both a gross violation of privacy and international human rights," the letter said.

In the Xinjiang region, Chinese authorities have used AI-connected cameras and other technology to monitor the Uyghur population and flag individuals based on their movements and behaviour.

He said that the CCP has “trashed” the Sino–British Agreement on the handover of Hong Kong to China and accused it of “carrying out a genocide” of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, as well as threatening its neighbors, including the Philippines, Vietnam

In Xinjiang, each person is only entitled to buying one. Such iron-fisted rule of Xinjiang is why locals say protests and unrest have continued to erupt. Hundreds have perished in these conflicts.

The FCCC stated that such interference is no longer limited to traditionally sensitive regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet.

Xinjiang has been a focus of U.S. government actions targeting Beijing on human rights and forced labor issues. Rep.

The Communist regime routinely denies repression in Xinjiang, a vast region that millions of ethnic and religious minorities call home.

China was singled out in the Justice Department's trade-fraud guide as a major focus of forced-labor enforcement efforts, particularly over allegations involving supply chains linked to the Xinjiang region.

Memorial Would Document Persecution The proposal calls for inscriptions, artwork, or other educational material describing the CCP’s genocide against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang.

Xinjiang remains the clearest warning of where this logic can lead.

Press report, citing a memo from the Xinjiang human resources office.

"This is because Xi wants to reposition Xinjiang as a corridor linking China's northwest to the Eurasian continent." A young Uyghur boy looks out from his home in Urumqi, China's Xinjiang region, on July 12, 2009.

Ma, 66, served on the Politburo, the CCP’s second-highest decision-making body, and previously held top posts in Xinjiang, Guangdong, and Shenzhen.