In his new book, “China’s War on Faith,” Brownback discusses ongoing genocides targeting Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists, and Falun Gong practitioners.

Former detainees have told The Epoch Times that Uyghurs are being tortured, raped, and killed in secretive “political re-education” camps.

Crackdown on Uyghurs Living in Foreign Countries Uyghurs are an ethnic minority primarily of Sunni Muslim faith. They have lived in northwest China for millennia.

Over the years, hundreds, possibly thousands, of Uyghurs have escaped the unrest by traveling clandestinely via Southeast Asia to Turkey. The Uyghurs in Malaysia were part of a group of more than 200 detained in Thailand in 2014.

Uyghur Muslims have faced mass detention and surveillance campaigns. Christians worship under constant scrutiny. Falun Gong practitioners have long alleged torture, imprisonment, and persecution.

through education” detention system and release all Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other detainees.

Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, and mainland Chinese dissidents have all reported intimidation, threats, and surveillance in Canada," Lee said. "This is not about geopolitics—it’s about safety.

Other reasons Uyghurs have been detained include growing beards in accordance with Uyghur tradition and attending religious gatherings. “We feared going back home because everyone who goes overseas is sent to jail or detained in camps.

In 2020, Beijing sanctioned Rubio twice during his tenure as a U.S. senator from Florida for calling out the CCP’s violations of human rights, including its genocide of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, the erosion of Hong Kong’s democracy and its rule of

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, an organization for Uyghurs in exile, told RFA he had received similar reports regarding Uyghur households.

A-list Uyghur actor and comedian Adil Mijit.

China is believed to be holding up to one million ethnic Uyghurs, the United Nations human-rights panel said in August.

House and Senate passed resolutions urging Trump to confront Xi over five political prisoners—Jin; Lai; Chinese pastor Gao Quanfu; Gao’s wife, Pang Yu; and retired Uyghur medical doctor Gulshan Abbas.

Beijing has labeled Uyghurs as a terror threat to justify the group's suppression. In schools, students are forbidden from speaking the Uyghur language. Books on Uyghur religion, history, and culture have been burned.

The report states that Temu had no system to ensure compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, making it all but guaranteed that goods produced with forced labor were entering American homes.

Zumretay Arkin, vice-president of the World Uyghur Congress, also testified before the committee on April 20 and said she has noticed a “clear evolution” in Beijing’s transnational repression campaign against Uyghurs.

They’re just finding any excuse to take the Uyghurs.” Numerous Uyghur families have said they find themselves in similar situations.

The Chinese regime has labeled Uyghur ethnic people a terror threat to justify their severe suppression and surveillance of Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China where many Uyghurs reside.

House and Senate passed resolutions urging Trump to confront Xi over five political prisoners—Lai; Chinese pastors Jin Mingri and Gao Quanfu; Gao’s wife, Pang Yu; and retired Uyghur medical doctor Gulshan Abbas.

China has vetoed United Nations Security Council resolutions aimed at stopping ethnic and religious killing in Burma (Myanmar) to protect its investments there, and it has blocked the Human Rights Council debate on its own genocide against the Uyghurs

Besides these, China, which suppresses 12 million Uyghur Muslims, has five Muslim neighbors. The United States and its European NATO partners often bicker, but again, China’s North Korean “ally” is a nuclear global pariah.

Weber also said nine transplant centers have been built in the Xinjiang region alone, adding that Middle Eastern demand for “halal organs” had created a specific market for Uyghur Muslims’ organs.

House and Senate passed resolutions urging Trump to confront Xi over five political prisoners: Lai; Chinese pastors Jin Mingri and Gao Quanfu; Gao’s wife, Pang Yu; and retired Uyghur medical doctor Gulshan Abbas.

Uyghur men at a local market in Kashgar, Xinjiang, on July 1.

“Espionage against the Uyghur community overseas is a priority for the Chinese security services,” according to a report published by the U.S.-based organization Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP).

A young Uyghur activist holds up a poster that reads, "China where is my grandma?!"

Brownback: The three are the Uyghur genocide, and it's primarily Muslim Uyghurs. They're kind of fine with the Uyghur culture, but they're not with Islam.

Beijing’s strongest complaints about extraterritoriality have typically been against U.S. sanctions, for example, on issues such as Russia, Hong Kong, semiconductors, the Uyghur genocide, the South China Sea, and measures to contain the Chinese regime

"The average American has no idea what's happening to the Uyghurs in western China, the abuses. And when China's going around under, the Belt and Road, to sub-Saharan African countries.

Global Affairs Canada said in 2021 that “evidence suggests that forced labour of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities is taking place not only in Xinjiang, but across China.”