Yashar, a Uyghur songwriter and musician, is serving a three-year prison sentence for creating music and possessing books in ...

Officially, the region is called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is part of China. With the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Xinjiang came under communist control ...

To the Uyghurs in China and elsewhere, our democracy holds the promise that one day, their voices might finally be heard. We ...

Exiled Uyghurs fear China’s policies are pushing their loved ones into even greater peril, within Xinjiang and beyond its ...

SARAJEVO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - A body fighting for Uyghur people's rights in China and abroad had to meet in virtual secrecy with police protection in the Bosnian capital after threats and pressure ...

This week, a new report from Bitter Winter revealed three videos of Uyghur boys, ages 5 to 11, coerced into saying that they loved or wanted to join the People’s Liberation Army. They said it in ...

The Uyghur population of Xinjiang is around 11 million, along with around four million people from other Turkic ethnic minorities. As such, the data likely represents only the tip of the iceberg.

Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China. An estimated 80% of Xinjiang's Uyghurs live in the southwestern portion of the region ...

Protest against 'zero-COVID' policy in Beijing in November last year The Uyghur community claims more than 10 people died in the fire. A local government spokesperson denies that figure and ...