China’s communist regime has locked up more than 1 million Uyghurs in internment camps in Xinjiang under the pretext of “combating extremism.”

Many of these facilities run on transferred Uyghur workers.

Commerce Department’s blacklist in October 2019 over their roles in supporting Beijing’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.

Earlier this year, Thailand deported 40 Uyghurs to China at Beijing's request, drawing condemnation from world leaders and sanctions from the United States.

Last December, Canada imposed sanctions on eight Chinese senior officials accused of “grave human rights violations,” saying the move was in response to the Chinese regime-led repression of ethnic and religious minorities, including the Muslim Uyghurs

TikTok's CEO has refused to acknowledge the regime's persecution of Uyghurs, and multiple studies have found that the app censors content about the regime's persecution of ethnic and religious minorities.

It also warns that the growth of demand for renewable energy technologies to tackle the climate crisis has led to further risks of exploitation, "with evidence of state-imposed forced labour of Uyghurs and other Turkic and Muslim majority groups in China

Dirks: Research associate at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto Sophie Luo: Wife of detained Chinese human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi Rushan Abbas: founder and executive director, Campaign for Uyghurs

Young Kim (R-Calif.) said family members of Radio Free Asia journalists reporting on the Uyghur Muslim genocide in China’s Xinjiang region were being actively persecuted and imprisoned by the Chinese Communist Party.

Think of the Uyghurs, Falun Gong, and Tibetans in China, the Rohingya in Myanmar, the Darfuri in Sudan, the Tutsi in Rwanda. Do we forget nothing and learn nothing?

The latest House version by Salazar includes specific provisions requiring the educational materials to outline the abuses by the Chinese communist regime, including the ongoing repression of Uyghur Muslims in China's far west region of Xinjiang, the

The SHU report points out that “companies that have created supply chains purportedly free of XUAR [Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] inputs continue to source from suppliers or sub-suppliers that have exposure to the Uyghur Region for other product

Victims of organ harvesting often include members of other minorities and religious groups detained in China, such as Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and Christians.

Last year, a report by the U.N. human rights chief said the CCP's treatment of Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers around 10 million in Xinjiang, in the country's far west, may constitute crimes against humanity.

former British non-permanent judge in Hong Kong, "The rule of law is dead in Hong Kong," Fong stressed that the British government should not treat the situation in Hong Kong as business as usual and should listen to the voices of Hongkongers, Tibetans, Uyghurs

One such company, iFlytek, was previously sanctioned by the U.S. government for its alleged role in surveilling the Uyghur ethno-religious minority group in China.

Since then, evidence suggests the regime has expanded its targets to other groups it suppresses, like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Texas Sen.

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is a law enacted in 2021 that bars importing to the United States goods that have been produced using forced labor of Uyghurs or other persecuted groups in Xinjiang.

Additionally, Alibaba has created facial recognition technology to identify ethnic Uyghurs and played a role in the sales of products associated with forced labor.

director of cybersecurity policy at the Office of the Secretary of Defense; senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy Larry Liu, deputy director of government and advocacy at the Falun Dafa Information Center Abdusattar Abduhali, coordinator for Uyghur

A 2020 report by the Jamestown Foundation, a think tank, also found militarized vocational training camps—similar to those that hold more than 1 million Uyghurs in Xinjiang—appearing in Tibet.

The WUC called on Beijing to release the millions of Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups arbitrarily detained in camps and “end the genocidal policies” in China’s Xinjiang region.

labour transfers in the Uyghur region.”

The NGO revealed increasing investments by Western governments, corporations, and investors in China despite the Chinese Communist Party's ongoing abuse of the Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang Province.

repression to silence Uyghurs.

Targets are usually members of certain religions, such as the Falun Gong community; some ethnicities, including Tibetans and Uyghurs; and pro-democracy movements.

In 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, prohibiting imports of forced labor products.

The U.S. government has formally declared the CCP’s treatment of Uyghurs as “genocide.”

“It only joined to block criticism of its human rights abuses against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and others,” Mr. Risch said.

The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) persecution of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, where about 90 percent of the country's cotton comes from, is known to involve forced labor.