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.

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

So they added the Uyghurs," Jekielek said. There is growing evidence that Uyghur Muslims have become another vulnerable population targeted by the CCP for organ harvesting.

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.

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.

Forced labor involving religious minorities—particularly Uyghurs—has created an ethically compromised supply chain that reaches international markets.

Mehmet Tohti, Executive Director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, is pictured in Ottawa on July 11, 2023.

Abbas began speaking out about the plight of the Uyghur people in the 1980s.

The concerted persecution and medical testing of the Uyghurs is more recent and it may be that evidence of forced organ harvesting of this group may emerge in due course," its final report said.

A primary objective is to thwart any UNHRC efforts to investigate Uyghur-related civil rights issues in East Turkistan, also known as Xinjiang.

By comparison, the United States under its Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act detained nearly 42,000 suspected shipments and denied nearly 23,000 over a similar timespan.

The report named dozens of political prisoners: pastors, a Catholic bishop, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, Uyghurs, rights lawyers, scholars, and others. The report covers the 2024 calendar year, preceding the Trump administration.

Murphy noted in her piece that both the regime and private companies—probably those using forced Uyghur labour—had been trying to stop her research for years.

Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Reauthorization Act of 2024, which would reauthorize the critical aspect of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 for another five years.

One of the importation rules that Chinese companies may seek to evade is the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which prohibits the import of goods made with forced labor from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the United States.

Rushan Abbas, executive director of the Washington-based advocacy group Campaign for Uyghurs, said the 1989 incident showed what the Chinese regime "was capable of doing.”

Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), co-chairs of the Congressional Uyghur Caucus, introduced the Uyghur Genocide Accountability and Sanctions Act (H.R.8124) on April 23.

“It affects every other minority, every other persecuted group in China: the Tibetans, the Catholics, the Christians, the Uyghurs, the Mongolians, the democratic activists,” Sun said of the Golden Shield.

suppression, and detention of over a million Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Tohti, founder of a Uyghur news site, has so far served more than 10 years of his life sentence. Almost half of those detained by the CCP are members of the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority, while two are ethnic Kazakhs.

We know for certain that Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and other groups are still being targeted. We know that the Chinese Communist Party will stop at nothing to ensure its own survival.

Hikvision’s alleged role in providing the Chinese regime with surveillance equipment to monitor Uyghurs resulted in companies such Home Depot pulling Hikvision products from its shelves, according to a 2021 report by the U.S.

In March 2023, Global Affairs Canada issued an advisory to Canadian firms doing business in Xinjiang "to bring attention to human rights violations in China affecting Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region."

Rushan Abbas, executive director at Campaign for Uyghurs, echoed his comments.

However, a 2023 report from Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project found that UNESCO was "complicit" in the Chinese regime's atrocities against Uyghurs and their culture by remaining silent and even providing cover for the Chinese Communist Party

While Uyghurs prepared for the Eid Al-Fitr, a festival that marks the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting and praying practiced by Muslims around the world, local Xinjiang authorities banned all religious activity.

Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, who also testified before the subcommittee on March 23, told MPs that the “basic intent” of the Chinese regime is to silence its critics in countries abroad, and that agreements like

Act] to Xinjiang, the EU will continue to be a dumping ground for goods manufactured using Uyghur labor.”

These are prisoners of conscience: Uyghurs, who are victims of an ongoing genocide, and Falun Gong practitioners," Vigil said.