In recent years, Uyghurs, house Christians, and other persecuted minorities have also been targeted by the regime for forced organ harvesting.

“Approximately one million Uyghurs have been forcibly relocated into detention centres for re-education in [Xinjiang].

The clips using the popular DouYin Chinese video sharing social networking site have been gathered by Australian-based Uyghur exile Alip Erkin who posts them on his Twitter feed “Uyghur Bulletin.” 

"The Uyghurs are a Chinese population," he told the worker. "OK, so we're not allowing any political signs," the worker said. The man holding the sign tried to engage the man about who Uyghurs are.

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The United Nations estimates that more than a million Uyghurs, the majority of whom are Muslim, have been detained in camps in Xinjiang.

It also says the Uyghurs are tracked electronically and restricted from returning to Xinjiang.

A moderate though outspoken Uyghur critic of Beijing's policies in Xinjiang, Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014.

House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on May 27 calling for sanctions on Chinese officials responsible for oppression of Uyghur Muslims, sending the bill to the White House for President Donald Trump to veto or sign into law.

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Among them were Lai; Jin; pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife, Pang Yu; and Gulshan Abbas, a retired Uyghur medical doctor. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who has been calling for Lai’s release, applauded Trump for raising the case.

He judges that China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative “requires the complete subjugation of the Uyghur population.” The brutal campaign has caused Uyghurs to flee to central and southeast Asia to escape.

The Chinese regime has intensified its crackdown on Uyghurs, including by establishing internment camps in Xinjiang where Uyghurs undergo political indoctrination and brainwashing in an attempt to force them into giving up their faith.

The United States and human rights groups have criticized the CCP's treatment of the Uyghurs.

Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) proposed a new bill, called the Uyghur Forced Labor Disclosure Act, which would require U.S.

(Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images) A website that was hosting the Android tools, meanwhile, had also served malware to Uyghur Android phones in an operation exposed this month by security firm Volexity lurking on websites frequented by Uyghurs.

Uyghurs and Tibetans demonstrate against China outside of the United Nations (UN) offices during the Universal Periodic Review of China by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Nov. 6, 2018.

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"It is without doubt that Ms Shimizu's manga has played an invaluable role in letting the world know the Uyghur issue," Japan Uyghur Association Chairman Ilham Mahmut said.

He expressed appreciation for the “strong bipartisan cooperation in addressing the agony of the Uyghurs,” adding, “tonight’s action gives Uyghurs hope.” “This legislation takes the next step,” said Rep.

Rushan Abbas, executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs, speaks during the China Forum at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington on Oct. 27, 2025.

Dolkun Isa, president of the Munich-based group the World Uyghur Congress, was speaking after two leaked troves of classified Chinese government documents provided evidence of mass detention camps for Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang region.

Leaked Chinese Communist Party (CCP) documents have revealed how China uses artificial intelligence to round up Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities for detention in Xinjiang’s network of mass internment camps.

U.S. lawmakers renewed calls for the administration to sanction officials overseeing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

Origins of the Xinjiang Model Xinjiang is home to roughly 11 million Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minorities.

But China has also prioritized tracking the movements of ethnic Uyghurs, a minority mostly Muslim group considered a security threat by Beijing. China is facing growing international criticism over its treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a U.S. think tank, says Uyghurs are being used for forced labor.

Peter Irwin, program manager at the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), said Pompeo’s meeting shows that the U.S. government places great importance on the Uyghur issue, in an email to The Epoch Times.

Earlier in the afternoon more than 1,000 people had rallied calmly, waving Uyghur flags and posters.

Jewher’s father, Ilham Tohti, was a Uyghur economics professor in Beijing who ran a website called “Uighur Biz,” which attempted to form a bridge between the Uyghurs in China and the Han Chinese.