Uyghurs are forced into labour in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China."

An estimated 1 million to 3 million Uyghurs have since been arbitrarily held in in various "political indoctrination camps" in China, according to the World Uyghur Congress.

Forced marriages are another means to de-Uyghurize Xinjiang. As many as 3 million Uyghurs, or 25 percent of the Uyghur population, are condemned to time in so-called reeducation camps.

'Cried With Joy' Rahima Mahmut, WUC's UK director and executive director of Stop Uyghur Genocide, said she "cried with joy," and hailed what she said was "a monumental victory and a moral triumph."

In recent years, Congress has passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 and the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) of 2021.

Mehmet Tohti, executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, has called Canada “officially a dumping ground for the products made by the use of Uyghur forced labour.”

The Uyghur Policy Act aims to create concrete pathways for the United States to support Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities subject to mass human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Abbas: I was a reporter at Radio Free Asia in 1998 when it added a Uyghur service. I was the first Uyghur reporter and lived in Washington at that time.

In December 2021, the Uyghur Tribunal, an independent people's tribunal, ruled that the Chinese communist regime had committed torture, crimes against humanity, and genocide against the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Holding Uyghurs of the Diaspora Hostage The CCP can pressure Uyghurs who live abroad by threatening their family members back home, as all of the Uyghurs abroad have family still in Xinjiang, according to Ms. Abbas.

Congress passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) in 2021 to prevent U.S. imports of goods produced using forced Uyghur labor.

Louisa Greve, director of Global Advocacy, Uyghur Human Rights Project Mr. Michael Stumo, CEO, Coalition for a Prosperous America

Critics say the Chinese regime has targeted intellectuals as a way to dilute, or even erase, Uyghur culture, language, and identity.

Activists set up a mock Uyghur forced labor camp outside the Apple flagship store in Washington on March 4, 2022.

Li-Ning has come under scrutiny for its support of using Xinjiang cotton, a commodity that researchers say is likely tainted with Uyghur forced labor in Xinjiang.

Uyghurs in the United States will protest China’s ongoing Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang and the deaths of the Uyghurs in the Urumqi fire. The Epoch Times will livestream the protest in Washington at 11:30 a.m. ET on Nov. 28.

Canada's corporate watchdog is launching a probe against the company Guess over possible ties to Uyghur forced labour in China.

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

The United States government officially recognized China’s ongoing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in occupied East Turkistan (renamed Xinjiang) for two years on Jan. 19.

Like the other two firms, it has triggered the sanction for using Uyghur forced labor—from Pishan County in Xinjiang.

That woke up Uyghurs and the world, which started resisting, Mr. Kanat noted. Despite dark times for Uyghurs, Mr.

Rushan Abbas, executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, said the designation of P-2 refugee status is a “long-overdue acknowledgment” of the horrific conditions faced by the Uyghurs.

targeting Uyghurs and human rights activists in Canada.

The CORE pointed out that in a letter to Zara in November 2021, the complainants requested Zara to ensure, "beyond a reasonable doubt," that it does not benefit from Uyghur forced labour and to conduct due diligence to verify the absence of Uyghur forced

official on Thursday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing over the president’s lifting of sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party-run Institute of Forensic Science, which has been confirmed by the United Nations to have committed atrocities on Uyghurs

Audits "in the Uyghur region, they are completely lacking credibility and impossible" because of the Chinese regime's clampdown, Ms. Cranston said.

Oxford University Press (OUP) is investigating three journal articles on forensic science that used genetic data from the Uyghur and Xibe ethnic groups in China.

for internment, depriving the Uyghur population of the ability to reproduce.

of global advocacy at the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a Washington-based nonprofit, told The Epoch Times.