-based Campaign for Uyghurs, told the ICIJ that after she and other NGO delegates entered the U.N. building where China’s review was being held, “those Chinese GONGOs were taking pictures of [the delegates].”

Representative Christopher Smith (R-N.J.), the CECC chair, joined by Fengsuo Zhou of Human Rights in China, Anna Kwok of Hong Kong Democracy Council, Pema Doma of Students for a Free Tibet, Elfidar Iltebir of the Uyghur-American Association and other

More than 1 million Uyghur and other Muslim minorities have been detained in Xinjiang, where they have been subjected to forced sterilization, torture, and forced labor.

The event also featured testimony from Nur Iman, a Chinese Uyghur whose parents are currently imprisoned with little information about their health or well-being.

In 2015, the Thai government forcibly sent back to China 109 Uyghur men and boys, who were never heard from again, said Human Rights Watch.

The report went on to highlight Uyghur forced labor products, saying the government lacked resolve to stop them from flooding the United Kingdom.

He also talks about researching his next book in Kazakhstan, where he spoke to Uyghurs who’ve been detained in camps in Xinjiang.

Raddle was aware of some groups, “like the Uyghurs that are continuing to be persecuted there. But I know there's different ethnic groups that are experiencing some persecution in China.”

In addition, Vanguard funds also hold shares of eight Chinese companies sanctioned over human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, where the persecution of Uyghurs has been identified by the U.S. State Department as “genocide.”

Other signatories of the letter include UK Director of the World Uyghur Congress and Executive Director of Stop Uyghur Genocide Rahima Mahmut and Conservative and Labour MPs from the Health and Social Care Committee, the Business and Trade Committee's

"If the Australian government can sanction Israeli ministers, why can't we sanction the Chinese officials culpable in the brutal suppression of the Tibetan and Uyghur peoples?" he wrote on X.

It also requires the council to write to Newcastle MPs, urging them to lobby the government for action over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims.

Protesters hold a sign against China's Uyghur camps, labeled vocational training centers by the Chinese regime, outside the home of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou before her extradition hearing at B.C.

In June 2021, a dozen human rights experts affiliated with the United Nations said they were “extremely alarmed by reports of alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting minorities, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims, and Christians

The West hopes these actions can stop the Chinese regime’s persecution of Uyghurs. On June 21, the U.S. Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) came into effect.

Human Rights Abuses Biden signed into law the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in December last year to ban imports of goods that were made using forced labor, following China's alleged human rights violations against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang

"This genocide is ongoing, and is the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state," said former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

In an interview with The Epoch Times, Yalkun Uluyol, a China researcher at Human Rights Watch, explained that repression abroad also targets Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Inner Mongolians, whose family members at home are harassed to deter political activity

Similarly, 78 percent strongly affirmed that they were deeply concerned of that Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and other groups were victims of organ harvesting. Nineteen percent were somewhat concerned.

It found car companies including BYD, GM, Tesla, Toyota, and Volkswagen are “failing to minimize the risk of Uyghur forced labour being used in their aluminum supply chains.”

Among other allegations, the government says Harvard “hosted and trained” members of the Chinese paramilitary groups it says were “complicit in the Uyghur genocide” in China’s Xinjiang region.

It noted that as recently as 2024, Harvard had “hosted and trained” individuals who belong to the CCP paramilitary group known as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps that has been “complicit in the Uyghur genocide” in China’s Xinjiang region

In an instance of self-censorship in 2025, a Thai gallery removed or altered works by certain artists upon Chinese authorities’ request, with words such as "Hong Kong," "Tibetan," and "Uyghur" redacted.

The China commission on which Walz served is generally critical of the country’s human rights abuse, including the regime’s repression of Falun Gong, Tibetans, and Uyghurs.

“Millions of people including the Falun Dafa practitioners [and] Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang are subjected to forced labor in Chinese prisons,” Mr. Hegde told the Indian Parliament.

CCP Persecution In February 2021, MPs voted 266–0 to condemn Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims and declared China's oppression of the groups to be a genocide.

The systematic oppression of faith, from Christians to Falun Gong to Uyghurs, worries Moolenaar even more than Beijing’s present coercive economic maneuvers.

China is the world’s leading trafficker of human organs, forcefully taken from unwilling donors that Xi and the CCP don’t like or care about, such as Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and political dissidents.

More than a million Uyghurs are believed to be detained in camps throughout Xinjiang.

Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kong activists, and mainland dissidents have all reported harassment and intimidation worldwide.