Neither the Xinjiang authorities nor China's Ministry of Public Security responded to requests for comment.

Much of the aluminum in Chinese EVs, she said, originates in the Xinjiang region, where the metal is processed by detained Uyghurs.

China’s AI chatbots either refused to answer or closely echoed official CCP narratives when asked about politically sensitive subjects, including the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the 2022 White Paper protests, human rights in Xinjiang, internal CCP

The region of Xinjiang has long been the subject of iron-fisted suppression by the Chinese regime.

"The surveillance and grid-management techniques in Xinjiang and Tibet were envisioned as experiments that could be refined and generalized to China at large," said June Teufel Dreyer, a professor of political science at the University of Miami.

Chen added that Xi’s push for the new law could be seen as a proactive step following his use of repressive tactics in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.

Earlier this week, a third seat on the top decision-making body fell vacant after the leadership expelled Ma Xingrui, former Xinjiang Party chief, for serious corruption.    

The ministry dispatched 24 central inspection teams across all 31 provincial-level jurisdictions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for announced and unannounced inspections during the second and third quarters.

(Noé Chartier/The Epoch Times) Pink Bracelets Gutmann, whose book “The Xinjiang Procedure” was released in March, provided similar information.

On the afternoon of March 8, the Xinjiang delegation of China's National People's Congress (NPC) opened up for media interviews.

He said the law marks a significant step in transforming policies previously enforced through administrative measures in regions such as Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia into formal legislation.

A large number of people from ethnic minorities—particularly Tibetans and Uyghurs from Xinjiang—live overseas, Wang noted.

Investigative journalist Ethan Gutmann presented findings from his research on Xinjiang. Drawing on interviews with former camp detainees and refugees, he estimated significant annual disappearances.

For Muslims in East Turkistan (Xinjiang) and Buddhists in Tibet, their faith is intertwined with their ethnic identity.

A Kazakh court sentenced 19 activists in April after they protested the detention of an ethnic Kazakh truck driver in Xinjiang. The protesters burned a Chinese regime flag and a portrait of Xi during the November 2025 demonstration.

Xinjiang Party head Zhang Chunxian also pledged to "intensify its strike-hard campaign against terrorism" in 2016.

Xinjiang Cotton and US Law According to the Department of Labor, since 2016, the Chinese Communist Party has subjected Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to genocide, state-imposed forced labor, and crimes against humanity

-bound modules are documented as using non-Xinjiang polysilicon, even as the same companies remain deeply tied to Xinjiang production.

“Consequently, Xinjiang indeed possesses a rather unique geographical advantage.”

“The CCP has turned Kazakhstan into a second Xinjiang,” Serikzhan Bilash, head of Atajurt, told The Epoch Times.

Religious and cultural freedoms are also restricted in Xinjiang, a region where ethnic Han Chinese now make up the majority.

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.

Xinjiang “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”

Activists detained by Kazakh authorities after staging a protest against human rights abuses happening in the Xinjiang region.

Xinjiang Communist Party Secretary Ma Xingrui attends the Xinjiang region delegation meeting during the 14th National People's Congress in Beijing on March 7, 2024.

The Xinjiang Region's Lesson: Suspicion as a Production Line The Xinjiang region remains the clearest window into how this machinery works.

Separately, they source a large volume of natural stone from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region and Quanzhou in China, where 54 percent of all quartz is mined using forced labor. 

In 2020, he read a BuzzFeed News report on detention centers in the Xinjiang region and decided to verify it, HRIC said. In October 2020, Guan traveled to the Xinjiang region alone.

Under that framework, Beijing is accelerating policies promoting linguistic and cultural assimilation in regions including Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia.

An two-page infographic in the new al-Qaeda magazine, "Resurgence," calls attention to the Chinese regime's suppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The magazine calls for Xinjiang to be brought into an Islamic Caliphate.