Police officers patrol in Kashgar, western Xinjiang, China, on June 4, 2019.

Customs officials on June 17 issued a detention order on hair products with links to forced labor in Xinjiang, China, to prevent the items from reaching stores in the United States. In a statement, U.S.

Meanwhile, on July 21 earthquakes hit in Tibet and Xinjiang. There was a 4.1 magnitude earthquake in Bomi County of Linzhi City of Tibet; and a 3.6 magnitude earthquake in Yutian County of Xinjiang.

A staffer at the People’s Hospital of Xinjiang in Urumqi told the Chinese-language Epoch Times that 3,000 to 4,000 people were being tested daily for the virus.

“Huawei was said to have built the police surveillance systems in Karamay and Kashgar prefectures and was praised by the head of Xinjiang provincial police department for its contributions in the Safe Xinjiang program,” the report added.

Chen, sanctioned earlier this month, is the Party Secretary for the Xinjiang region, and also the First Party Secretary of the XPCC.

Its star publicly supported Hong Kong police during pro-democracy protests, and its producer thanked the Public Security Bureau of the Xinjiang region, where millions of Uyghurs are being held in camps.

Between 900,000 and 1.8 million Muslim ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs, have been detained in more than 1,300 concentration camps in Xinjiang, according to a 2020 report published by the U.S.

The task force later added Xinjiang Nonferrous and Xinjiang Joinworld—two suppliers the lawmakers had linked to CATL or Chinese battery maker Gotion—to the list, according to a November 2024 committee statement.

labour in Xinjiang.

“anti-Falun Gong playbook in Xinjiang.”

Chinese authorities are offering rewards of up to 100,000 yuan, or about $14,000, for reporting on activities of people who practice any from a list of over 20 religions that are persecuted in China. The new directive details measures to enhance its state abuses of religions. Issues people can get rewards for reporting include if […]

Workers walk by the perimeter fence of a labor camp in Xinjiang on Sept. 4, 2018.

United Nations experts and activists say at least 1 million Uyghurs and members of other largely Muslim minority groups have been detained in camps in Xinjiang.

Brown/AFP via Getty Images)Curated Trips, Published Testimonials In June 2025, 27 students and teachers from Walter Payton College Preparatory High School in Chicago traveled to Xinjiang.

U.S. officials recently introduced legislation to address China’s human rights violations in the Xinjiang region. On March 12, U.S. Rep.

The EU is still seeking a meeting with Chen, the Party chief in Xinjiang, the sources said.

Meanwhile, the CCP has placed the capital city of Xinjiang, Urumqi, under a “wartime state” to allegedly contain the virus.

Communications Commission on imports of Chinese drones, and the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to add 43 Chinese companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, banning their imports over alleged links to forced labor in Xinjiang

It put the number of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities who are or have been detained in Xinjiang at 1.8 million.

It also urges the the Commerce Department to consider banning the sale of US goods and services to state agents in Xinjiang.

A traveler who entered Xinjiang this year with an Android device told The Guardian that he waited for an hour before getting his phone back.

Speaking at an American Association of Christian Counselors event in Nashville, Tennessee, Pompeo also said he wished the National Basketball Association (NBA) had acknowledged the situation in the Xinjiang region.

It does not name China’s Xinjiang region or the U.S. Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

For people involved in issues concerning Tibet, Xinjiang, ethnic minorities, separatism, national unity, or other politically sensitive matters, this development is worth taking seriously.

Several groups of diplomats from other countries have already been brought to Xinjiang on tightly scripted trips since late December to visit the facilities. There have been two visits by groups including European diplomats to Xinjiang this year.

“We urge the United States to stop using Xinjiang as a way to interfere in China’s domestic affairs,” Chunying added.

The Belt and Road, therefore, builds alternatives such as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor linking Xinjiang to Gwadar on the Arabian Sea, rail corridors through Central Asia and Iran that reach Europe without touching the ocean, a “String of Pearls

One unnamed European journalist said a Chinese Embassy invited the reporter on a government-organized trip to Xinjiang.

"We believe that senior Xinjiang officials and national officials who are implicated in the crisis in Xinjiang should be subject to global Magnitsky sanctions," Richardson said. "The situation in Xinjiang is far from improving.