Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, an organization for Uyghurs in exile, recently told Radio Free Asia that the recent efforts are the Chinese regime's latest attempts to force Uyghurs to surrender their culture and customs.

In this region where mainly ethnic Uyghur minorities reside, Bekri promoted Beijing’s sinicization policies to restrict Uyghur customs and language while forcing locals to adopt customs of the Han ethnic majority.

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.

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

Suozzi also co-led the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was signed into law by then-President Joe Biden in December 2021.

Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, has called Canada “officially a dumping ground for the products made by the use of Uyghur forced labour.”

The stated objectives suggest that the display was directed primarily at maintaining control over the Uyghur population rather than responding to an external terrorist threat.

Li-Ning has come under scrutiny for its support of using Xinjiang cotton, a commodity that researchers say is likely tainted with Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang.

targeting Uyghurs and human rights activists in Canada.

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.

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

Human Rights Watch says forced labour is present in the Chinese vehicle supply chain, principally through aluminum produced in Xinjiang, where minority Uyghurs are persecuted.

On a broader scale, the CCP's "humanistic care" for Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang has been documented as something far darker.

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.

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.

He added that the Tiananmen clampdown and the mass suppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang are “chapters of the same story."

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.

The Chinese regime’s oppressive tactics against Uyghurs in Xinjiang have been characterized by the U.S. government as constituting crimes against humanity and genocide.

Kokbore, research director, Center for Uyghur Studies Tsultrim Gyatso, Chinese liaison officer, Office of Tibet Ciping Huang, executive director, Wei Jingsheng Foundation Jane Xiuhong Jin, founder, Chinese Democracy and Human Rights Alliance

The Commerce Department added iFLYTEK to the Entity List in 2019 over its role in surveillance technology used against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

"While we already know they don't tolerate issues regarding Tibet, Uyghurs, or Tiananmen Square, we now have to question whether 'Myanmar' has also become part of that list."

The report cited prompts involving Chinese dissidents, Taiwan’s political status, Hong Kong democracy, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and the Falun Gong spiritual practice.

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

, and Hong Kongers,” said Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project.

It also called for federal reporting on China-linked harassment and intimidation targeting Hong Kong activists, Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, Shen Yun, and Tibetan activists. Rep.