Especially hard hit during each of China's "strike hard" policing in Xinjiang were young Uyghur men, and during the most draconian years of the detention campaign, they were conspicuously absent ...

On that terrible night, two police officers, one Uyghur, and one Han Chinese barged through my mother’s front door under cover of darkness. With my father in the ICU after suffering a stroke ...

In this episode, she profiles two Uyghur men who have found themselves sometimes unwilling actors within the Chinese state's systems of control over Uyghurs. As they work to silence others ...

Human rights groups say that, starting in 2014, up to million Muslim Uyghur people were rounded up in Xinjiang and imprisoned. Those who could escaped, and thousands settled in the United States.

Mr. Izgil is the author of the forthcoming book “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide,” from which this essay is adapted. About seven years ago ...

Kawsar Yasin ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint History and Anthropology concentrator in Eliot House and the Founder and President of Harvard Undergraduates for Uyghur Solidarity.

“Now that the leading U.N. office on human rights has spoken, there are no more excuses for the failure to hold the Chinese government accountable,” said Elfidar Iltebir, president of the ...

Two Uyghur rights activists from Washington warned Taiwan during a news conference at Taiwan’s parliament not to compromise with China and suggested ways Taiwan could help protect Uyghur culture.

About six years after acclaimed Uyghur folklorist Rahile Dawut first disappeared, it has been confirmed that a Chinese court sentenced her to life in prison, a human rights group announced ...

As a Uyghur, it is deeply meaningful for me to honor the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. Together with individuals of conscience worldwide, Uyghurs will never forget the ...

He fled brutal repression — only to discover, as so many Uyghur refugees have, that China’s power stretches far beyond its borders. Hasan Imam, a Uyghur refugee who spent years in Thai ...