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.

In his new book, “China’s War on Faith,” Brownback discusses ongoing genocides targeting Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists, and Falun Gong practitioners.

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.

The groups have included Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, and Uyghurs.

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.

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

Uyghur Muslims have faced mass detention and surveillance campaigns. Christians worship under constant scrutiny. Falun Gong practitioners have long alleged torture, imprisonment, and persecution.

They think for economic gain, Taliban is turning a blind eye on the Chinese regime’s genocide against the Uyghurs,” he said.

In 2019, the Commerce Department put it on the entity list over its role in the mass surveillance of Uyghurs, and the Pentagon designated it a Chinese military company in fiscal year 2021.

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

Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, and mainland Chinese dissidents have all reported intimidation, threats, and surveillance in Canada," Lee said. "This is not about geopolitics—it’s about safety.

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

Weber also said nine transplant centers have been built in the Xinjiang region alone, adding that Middle Eastern demand for “halal organs” had created a specific market for Uyghur Muslims’ organs.

In the evening, participants chanted slogans such as “Free Uyghurs,” “Free Tibet,” “Free Hong Kong,” and “Free China.”

For years, Beijing has portrayed the Uyghur issue as an internal matter, but quietly, it has pressed every government on its periphery to surveil, detain, or expel Uyghur exiles and suspected militants.

Global Affairs Canada says there is evidence that forced labour of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities is taking place across China.

The House holds a floor vote on multiple China-related bills, including the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025, the Falun Gong Protection Act, the No Dollars to Uyghur Forced Labor Act, and the Taiwan International Solidarity Act.