Schoolchildren walk below surveillance cameras in Akto, western Xinjiang region, China, on June 4, 2019.

Similar rules were applied to Xinjiang-related content, in which the regime ordered the removal of information that promoted or shared methods to bypass internet restrictions.

Issue—There is no genocide in Xinjiang; there is no such thing as ‘forced labor’ in any production activity, including cotton production.

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

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

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.

It Took Months to Officially Announce Ma’s Fall Ma was removed from his position as the Xinjiang region's Party secretary in July 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.

The U.S. government has recognized the Chinese regime's repression in Xinjiang as a genocide.

China has been criticized internationally for its practice of forced labor, most prominently through political prisoners such as the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.

According to the English language version of Xinhua, the official Chinese state mouthpiece, a blast rocked a railway station in Urumqi, the capital of the northwestern province of Xinjiang, on Wednesday evening.

The DHS said that three of the five newly sanctioned Chinese companies purchased materials from Xinjiang “or from persons working with the government of Xinjiang or the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for purposes of the ‘poverty alleviation

A new official report added few details to previous accounts of Friday’s violent encounter in Xinjiang. It again blamed religious extremists for the deadly incident between police and Uyghur residents, which left several Uyghurs dead.

China imposed sanctions on Rubio in August 2020 in response to his criticism of Beijing’s policies in Hong Kong and the Xinjiang region and his support for related U.S. legislation.

Officials at Xinjiang Universities pledged at meetings to oppose religious extremism and separatism on campuses and emphasized the importance of political and ideological education, Xinjiang Daily reported Tuesday, according to New Zealand Week.

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Australia's ambassador to the United Nations, James Larsen, has called on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to uphold human rights in Xinjiang and Tibet.

Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang face severe repression by the regime, with an estimated 1 million or more being placed in re-education camps or other detention facilities.

Yalqun Yaqup, deputy director-general of the Xinjiang region public security department (L), next to Xu Guixiang, director of the information office of China's Xinjiang region, delivers a speech during a press conference against a long-delayed U.N. report

However, the Xinjiang experiment has not been independently verified by major Western news outlets or scientific institutions.

Internment Camps in Xinjiang The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group that is primarily Muslim.

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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

Frank Wolf, former member of Congress (R–Va.) and distinguished fellow, 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative Michael Arkush, co-writer, "China’s War on Faith" Mihrigul Tursun, former Uyghur detainee from Xinjiang, China Arjia Rinpoche, director, Tibetan

In “Nikah,” Mijit and Ehouzan capture a uniquely tragic moment in time—the point at which the CCP turned Xinjiang into a dystopian open-air prison.

Domestically, the MSS undertakes surveillance of ethnic minorities, especially in Tibet and the Xinjiang region.

From Xinjiang to Serbia to Colombia, groups have identified that Zijin Mining operates as a chronic human rights abuser," Moolenaar wrote.