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
Global Affairs Canada said in 2021 that “evidence suggests that forced labour of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities is taking place not only in Xinjiang, but across China.”
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).
“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.
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.
The group said it has designated Chinese citizens in Afghanistan as its targets because of the Chinese regime’s increasing persecution of Uyghur Muslims.
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‘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.
This includes Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners, "who have been forcibly detained in internment camps for their cultural, religious and spiritual beliefs.
November 23, 2025By Daniel Y. Teng, Rex Widerstrom
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.
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.
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
"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
The stated objectives suggest that the display was directed primarily at maintaining control over the Uyghur population rather than responding to an external terrorist threat.
