“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).

Comparatively, U.S. customs denied entry to nearly 23,000 shipments suspected of containing goods made from forced labour over a similar time span under its Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

The groups include Canada-Hong Kong Link, Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, Canada Tibet Committee, Canadians for Democracy in Iran, Falun Gong Human Rights Group, Taiwanese Canadian Association of Toronto, and the Chinese Canadian Association for Freedom

(Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) In the far-western region of Xinjiang, at least 1 million Uyghurs and members of other Muslims minorities are believed to be held in a sprawling network of internment camps, according to the resolution.

Ottawa has previously highlighted the practice of forced labour in China, with Global Affairs Canada saying in 2021 that “evidence suggests that forced labour of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities is taking place not only in Xinjiang, but across China

The Chinese regime’s targets have included Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and former officials of the Chinese regime.

Investigations have found that most of the organs are not coming from willing donors, but instead are forcibly taken from persecuted religious believers, including practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong, and increasingly, Uyghur Muslims

Beijing’s crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs has been documented, with Canada declaring China’s persecution of Uyghurs a “genocide” in 2021.

Our research found that China recorded more than 3 million labor transfers of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in 2025.

The groups also asked the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to add Pop Mart to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) entity list.

LOS ANGELES—Renowned Uyghur economics scholar Ilham Tohti is serving a life sentence in China on charges of "separatism," while thousands of human rights activists around the world are showing him support and raising awareness of his case.

Today, the enlarged “donor” class includes the practitioners of Falun Gong—mostly virtuous contemplatives—but also Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Christians. Rep.

The president would also review the Department of State's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List—which identifies businesses U.S. officials believe are involved in the persecution of Uyghurs and other minorities in China's far-western Xinjiang

(Li Chen/The Epoch Times) Demonstrators carried numerous Chinese and English banners reading “Hold the CCP Accountable for its Bloody Crimes,” “Overthrow the Tyranny,” “Free the Uyghurs,” “Free Tibet,” and “Crack Down on the Chinese Communist Party’s

In 2021, Canada designated four Chinese officials and one entity responsible for gross human rights violations against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong practitioners in the Xinjiang region of China, following the lead of the United States, the UK, and

The incidents involved members of Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights, a group that has long documented the detention of ethnic Kazakhs, Uyghurs, and other minorities in China’s Xinjiang region, also known as East Turkistan among independence activists.

In an email dated Sept. 25, 2025, to city legislators and the Office of Immigrant Affairs, which The Epoch Times obtained, a Philadelphia-based Chinese dissident cited China's treatment of Uyghurs, the suppression of pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong

International, said he came to Ottawa from Toronto to "send a message to Minister Wang who has come here to Canada to try to solidify new business deals and arrangements with the Canadian government, mostly on the backs of the Falun Dafa followers, Uyghur

The human rights group also reported mass arbitrary detention, forced political indoctrination, restrictions on movement, and religious repression against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.

Workers install solar panels at a photovoltaic power station in Hami, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, on Aug. 22, 2011.

He noted there are incarcerated Falun Gong practitioners, and more recently Uyghur Muslims, who make up a pool of “so-called donors” who have already been blood-typed and tissue-typed in advance, allowing a matched donor to be “shipped and killed to order

The book, "China's War on Faith," addresses the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, and Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in China, as well as new policies for the U.S. government and actions for the American

“I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.”

A coalition of human rights groups urged Anand earlier this week to raise multiple issues in China with Wang, including the persecution of Falun Gong and Uyghurs, and concerns about ongoing transnational repression on Canadian soil.

Kalbinur Sidik, who worked as a Chinese-language teacher in Uyghur detention camps in Xinjiang, testified that she saw blood drawn from detainees every week.

"For Uyghur teachers, on the other hand, fluency in both Uyghur and Mandarin is required, and Uyghur teachers whose Mandarin is insufficient face unemployment," the report states in its introduction.

If you're a Uyghur, you should want to marry a Han Chinese because by doing that, you unify the country.

An estimated 46 percent of them are Uyghurs, and the Sunni Islam is the main religion.

"China's accusation against Uyghurs has special political purpose: China links Uyghurs and terrorism to suppress and attack both," said Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman with the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress, in a telephone interview.

He helped push measures on forced labor involving Uyghur Muslims. The Rubio case is the latest example of diplomatic adjustments as the United States and China seek to manage tensions through high-level talks.