Adaire Criner of the Uyghur Human Rights Project said that it’s “a painful reminder of the CCP’s long history of transnational repression in Central Asia.”

Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project also hailed the EU's move, calling it a “big step forward in combatting state-imposed forced labor in the Uyghur region.”

His work has contributed to Western coverage of China’s Xinjiang region, where Uyghurs face severe repression by the Chinese Communist Party. We spoke with his lawyer and a witness for more. Zhou Fengsuo, co‑founder of Humanitarian China, a U.S.

macabre state-run 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

In the case of Falun Gong and Uyghurs, credible allegations point to the state-sanctioned practice of forced organ harvesting, which the experts have concluded is a crime against humanity.

The company's plan to list in London has also been met with scrutiny over concerns that its garments may involve the forced labor of Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.

In a sentence that shocked observers and left his family reeling, the moderate Uyghur economics scholar Ilham Tohti was sent to prison on Sept. 23 for the rest of his life by the Intermediate People's Court in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur

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Louisa Greve, director of Global Advocacy at Uyghur Human Rights project, speaks at the Policy Forum on Organ Procurement and Extrajudicial Execution in China on Capitol Hill on March 10, 2020.

In 2019, the Commerce Department blacklisted Dahua over its involvement in the CCP's persecution of Uyghurs. The Pentagon later designated it a Chinese military company for fiscal year 2021, which did not come with any penalties at the time.

The U.S. government has blacklisted more than 100 Chinese entities over the persecution of Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang under the 2022 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA).

The XPCC is a Chinese regime paramilitary organization that has been implicated in rights abuses against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang, China.

“Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, and Chinese democracy advocates—Though we come from different lands and speak different languages, our fates have long been tied together by the same tyranny,” said Sangmo.

The group said it has designated Chinese citizens in Afghanistan as its targets because of the Chinese regime’s increasing persecution of Uyghur Muslims.

Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project executive director Mehmet Tohti speaks during a news conference in Ottawa on Feb. 1, 2023.

active in Uyghur rights advocacy.

Gutmann also interviews Uyghur refugees from Xinjiang in Tajikistan and Turkey, and their painful experiences add further depth to the investigation.

(Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times) ‘Biggest Threat to the Free World’ Uyghur activist Rushan Abbas also experienced retaliation after, at a panel discussion at the Hudson Institute, she denounced Beijing’s mass detention and torture of Uyghur Muslims in

Isa is to draw attention away from China’s record of dreadful treatment of the Uyghur minority, calling China’s efforts “baseless allegations against prominent Uyghur activists,” which are politically motivated.“The World Uyghur Congress and Mr.

The Uyghur genocides, internment camps, the destruction of mosques, and the forced sterilization of women are all horrors from which we must not look away.

"But to XPCC, 'effective policies' are those that succeed in repressing the Uyghur people."

This includes Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners, "who have been forcibly detained in internment camps for their cultural, religious and spiritual beliefs.

In August, the U.N. concluded that the CCP policies used to justify its repression against Uyghurs have remained in place.

Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, political dissidents, and religious minorities are detained without trial, subjected to reeducation, and forced into factories tied to global brands.

In February 2025, Thailand, under Chinese pressure, deported dozens of Uyghur Muslims to China despite international leaders speaking out against it. In the United States, former New York City police Sgt.

Zijin Gold International is a subsidiary of Zijin Mining Group, which is listed on the U.S. government's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List.

Both companies have been sanctioned for aiding the Chinese Communist Party's genocide of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.

Tohti, a professor at a Beijing university, has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese regime and its treatment of the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region.

"Volkswagen should not seek to brush off or minimize evidence of Uyghur forced labor within its supply chain when the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act explicitly bans the importation into the United States of any products, regardless of size, made in-whole

Rushan Abbas is a Uyghur American activist and advocate for the Uyghur people in what pro-independence activists call East Turkistan, while the CCP refers to it as “Xinjiang,” meaning “new territories” in Chinese, as it was conquered and occupied by China