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.

“Canada is deeply concerned by the human rights violations in Xinjiang and Tibet and against those who practise Falun Gong,” said Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly in a Dec. 10, 2024, news release by Global Affairs Canada.

Among the five Central Asian countries, Kazakhstan is of particular significance to China, said Lu Sibin, as Kazakhstan borders China’s Xinjiang region and is connected closely with Xinjiang in logistics and water resources. 

As examples, he cited "the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the erosion of fundamental freedoms in Hong Kong, persistent human rights abuses in Tibet, and transnational repression around the world." Mr.

Most people living in Xinjiang are Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group that follows Sunni Islam.

And few today can say that they are unaware of the genocide inflicted in China against Falun Gong practitioners, not just the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

Nov. 24, 2022: Xinjiang Fire On that day, a fire broke out in a high-rise building in the Jixiangyuan neighborhood of downtown Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. The city had already been closed for over 100 days to prevent the spread of COVID.

Alton said the human rights atrocities happening to Falun Gong adherents are "the next big human rights crisis in China after Xinjiang."

And because most of the world's solar panel manufacturing takes place in China, it's nearly impossible to tell which panels may include polysilicon from Xinjiang, U.S. officials say.

Tencent owns WeChat, a widely-used social media platform in China, has been used to monitor Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang Province, Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa, told another House committee  last December

The IOC has remained silent on the issue of human rights in Xinjiang.

On its last day, the Trump administration declared that the Chinese regime had committed ongoing “genocide against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.”

Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.) said he joined in the letter to Cuffari to “ensure American taxpayer dollars are not being used to fund genocide and abuse in China's Xinjiang region.”

These include pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, human rights abuses in Xinjiang, and U.S. relations with Taiwan.

These videos are typically accompanied by narratives discrediting Western reports of alleged genocide in Xinjiang as misinformation orchestrated by the CIA.

He also argued that the companies, which provide custom-designed surveillance systems to Chinese authorities, are “directly responsible” for the scale of human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

The U.S. government blacklisted China's Nanjing Fiberhome Telecommunications Technology in 2020 for its possible involvement in human rights abuses and the oppression, detention, and surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

While the first ever China-Eurasia Expo in the northwestern Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang is much celebrated by China's communist authorities, the expo has brought much inconvenience to the local Uyghur residents ever since it opened on Thursday

The evidence of widespread, systematic human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang grew. Extensive restrictions continued to be imposed on media freedom, freedom of religion or belief and rule of law.”

Nations (U.N.) report that found credible evidence of serious human rights violations against the Uyghurs by the CCP in Xinjiang, in September.

"Authorities have used anti-crime campaigns in Xinjiang to crack down on Uyghurs and other indigenous people.

Next to the light tunnel was a big tent around which food vendors were stationed, including freshly prepared Japanese ramen, Taiwanese rice bowls, traditional Chinese soup, Xinjiang-style meat skews, and gyros.

Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang face severe suppression by the regime, with an estimated 1 million or more being placed in re-education camps or other detention facilities.

Until at least late 2016, Celil was being held in Xinjiang Number One Prison in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang region, Ruland said.

It also vividly depicts the joyful and lively scene of the Uyghur people playing tambourines, singing, and dancing at the foot of Tian Shan by utilizing a Uyghur folk tone and Xinjiang folk dance style. © 2023 Atlantic Studios Inc.

Following these certifications, in July 2021, iSoon was shortlisted for the network security protection project of the Aksu District Public Security Bureau in the Xinjiang region.

The law bans imports from China’s far-western region of Xinjiang—where the Chinese regime has been accused of committing genocide against Uyghurs—unless companies can prove products weren't produced with forced labor.

Protests in China were triggered by the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Urumqi, Xinjiang, who died due to an apartment fire.

Volkswagen operates a factory in Urumchi, the capital city of the Xinjiang region.

In June last year, the United States banned the import of goods from China’s Xinjiang region following President Joe Biden signing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021.