Forty-five years ago, the U.S. silenced Uyghur voices in the name of diplomacy. Today, they are being silenced in the name of austerity. In 1979, the United States shut down Uyghur-language radio ...
The month of June marks two years since the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into full effect. The groundbreaking law set a precedent for U.S. policy, making clear that countering ...
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) condemned Thailand’s deportation of 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China on Thursday. The group stated that repeated requests to access the detained Uyghurs ...
Kalbinur Gheni hasn’t seen her sister in person for more than six years. Her sister Renagul disappeared into the Chinese Communist Party’s vast political reeducation camps, which imprison an estimated ...
BANGKOK — Thailand deported 40 Uyghur asylum-seekers to China on Thursday, activists and Thai officials said, despite warnings from rights advocates and U.S. officials that they could face torture and ...
The U.S. State Department is reeling. Morale is low, leadership turnover is high and internal dysfunction has left many career diplomats and foreign service officers disillusioned and disengaged. Some ...
Uyghurs, under the leadership of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, commemorate the 27th anniversary of the 1997 Ghulja Massacre on February 5th, urging the U.S. Congress to recognize East ...
All Abduweli Ayup wanted to do was start a school. He's a Uyghur linguist who specializes in Turkic languages. After years of studying abroad, he returned to his native China in 2011 and started ...