Zumretay Arkin, vice-president of the World Uyghur Congress, also testified before the committee on April 20 and said she has noticed a “clear evolution” in Beijing’s transnational repression campaign against Uyghurs.

"And the schools created curriculum materials that were also in Uyghur with Uyghur translations of English texts instead of Chinese translations of English texts, which were harder for Uyghurs who didn't speak good Chinese.”

Moderator Benedict Rogers, Fortify Rights Speakers Wai Wai Nu, Women’s Peace Network Ewelina Ochab, Article 18 Council of Experts Abdulhakim Idris, Center for Uyghur Studies Cynthia Sun, Falun Dafa Information Center

He fled communist China with footage widely seen as firsthand evidence of the regime's human rights abuses against Uyghurs.

Suozzi also co-led the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was signed into law by then-President Joe Biden in December 2021.

Multiple investigations in recent years have also uncovered regime-imposed slave labor, including the exploitation of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region.

Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), seeks to expand sanctioning powers over the Chinese regime's human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims, to cover more acts of human rights violations and those responsible for the transnational repression of Uyghurs.

He added that the Tiananmen clampdown and the mass suppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang are “chapters of the same story."

In a post on the social media platform X in November 2023, Germany-based advocacy group World Uyghur Congress said that IFS “possesses involuntary collected DNA from millions of Uyghurs and Tibetans.”

predominantly Muslim Uyghur Xinjiang region.

The U.N. human rights office in 2022 found that Beijing's repression of Uyghurs may amount to “crimes against humanity.”

More than 1 million Uyghurs have been held in CCP detention camps, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Sauytbay was fortunate to escape.

The Uyghur community is another target of Beijing in Canada.

Commerce Department placed on the Entity List in October 2019 for supplying surveillance technology used against Uyghur minorities in Xinjiang.

At the same time, the CCP uses this program to uproot Uyghur culture and traditions. The State Department has already characterized the repression of the Uyghurs as genocide.

Kokbore, research director, Center for Uyghur Studies Tsultrim Gyatso, Chinese liaison officer, Office of Tibet Ciping Huang, executive director, Wei Jingsheng Foundation Jane Xiuhong Jin, founder, Chinese Democracy and Human Rights Alliance

Kokbore, a Uyghur political commentator, said China will undoubtedly use the new legislation to suppress Taiwan.

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

Activists in China are petitioning for the release of recently detained Uyghur scholar, Ilham Tohti, who has been critical of the Chinese regime’s ethnic policies in far western Xinjiang.Police raided Tohti’s home in Beijing last Wednesday and took him

“We remain concerned by China’s ongoing abuses against religious groups, dissidents, and ethnic groups, including Uyghurs, Tibetans, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners, among others,” the State Department spokesperson told The Epoch Times.

The lawmakers named four individuals who are currently detained: Chinese pastor Jin Mingri, Uyghurs Dr. Gulshan Abbas and Ekpar Asat, and U.S. permanent resident Gao Zhen.

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.

-based family members or influence U.S. policy,” the lawmakers wrote, citing the cases of detained or harassed relatives of Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service journalists and the continued imprisonment of retired Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas.

The primary victims, it found, were Falun Gong practitioners, although other ethnic and religious minorities such as Uyghurs were also at risk.

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.

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.”

Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback; former Congressman and Remembrance Society Chairman Don Ritter; Campaign for Uyghurs founder Rushan Abbas; Falun Gong persecution survivor William Huang; Mary Vigil, a senior advisor

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.”

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.