A U.N. whistleblower alleged China's use of intimidation, bribery, and document editing to remove unflattering facts about COVID-19's origins and Xinjiang abuses. Despite its abysmal human rights record, China has been reelected to the U.N.

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

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.

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.

Chang, a local Han resident, told Epoch Times in a telephone interview that southern Xinjiang, which includes Luntai County where the explosions took place, has comparatively more military and security officials than elsewhere in Xinjiang.

in Xinjiang.

A number of UK lawmakers said on Jan. 30 that they take "no comfort” from China’s decision to lift the sanctions imposed on it, especially as the communist regime continues to commit human rights abuses in Hong Kong and the Xinjiang region.

The move is just one part of a broad security tightening, along with “strike hard” campaigns in Xinjiang, after a bombing attack at a fruit market last week.

Zijin Mining Group, Xinjiang Zijin Zinc Industry, Xinjiang Zijin Nonferrous Metals, and Xinjiang Habahe Ashele Copper.

The list included all province-level regions in China, with the exception of Xinjiang and Macau.

Beijing's sanctions came after Canada and the United States sanctioned Chinese officials involved in rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region.

Recently Uyghur groups claimed that thousands of people had been slaughtered by Chinese security forces in a county in Xinjiang.

The United States has determined that the Chinese communist regime systemically uses forced labor in Xinjiang, where the majority of China's cotton is produced. Xinjiang is also home to many of China's mining operations.

Schoolchildren walk under surveillance cameras in Akto, south of Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang region, on June 4, 2019.

An explosion hit Urumqi, located in Xinjiang Province in western China, on Thursday morning. Xinhua, the Chinese Communist Party’s state-run mouthpiece, said that the explosion hit a park, but it did not elaborate.

For example, the Chinese regime has hosted tech and cybersecurity seminars in Xinjiang for officials from the Middle East, Africa, and other countries.

“Kmart tells customers that it supports ethical sourcing and the protection of human rights – but we know there are credible links between two of its factories/suppliers and the use of Uyghur forced labour in Xinjiang,” she said.

Mao said "We do not stand for the movement of independence of the Xinjiang nationalities and do not have any claims on Xinjiang territory, considering that Xinjiang is and must be a part of China."

The report cites the examples of Tibet and Xinjiang, where residents are subjected to invasive surveillance.

The primary victims of the CCP's forced organ harvesting are Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Across the border, in Xinjiang, China did the same at Lop Nur: 45 tests, 22 in the atmosphere, over lands occupied by Uyghurs and ethnic Kazakhs. 

It is not the first time that violence in Xinjiang has overlapped with important moments of political decision.

She also declined to answer Byrne's questions on whether Shein believes there's forced labor in Xinjiang.

McCuaig-Johnston told MPs in the committee that Chinese electric vehicles are made with aluminum using forced labour by Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region of China.

system—involving security forces, military hospitals, and civilian transplant centers—to forcibly harvest organs from living prisoners of conscience, primarily Falun Gong practitioners, but increasingly also other groups including Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang

Mao said "We do not stand for the movement of independence of the Xinjiang nationalities and do not have any claims on Xinjiang territory, considering that Xinjiang is and must be a part of China."

Kazakh police arrive after activists stage a protest against human rights abuses happening in China's Xinjiang region, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 13, 2025.

Xinjiang is home to 25 million people of various ethnicities, and reports of the Chinese regime's abuse of Uyghurs were brought to the United Nations' attention as early as 2016.

A detention facility in Xinjiang region, China, on July 19, 2023.

For example, in regions under CCP control like Tibet and Xinjiang, this is a traditional and important means of breaking the CCP's news and information monopoly,” she said.