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What motivated Chinese-born Uyghers to fight in Syria's civil war

Thousands of Chinese-born Uyghur fighters fled China to fight in the Syrian civil war. They say generations of political persecution in China motivated them to take up arms.

Chinese Oppression is a Personal Affront to All People

Michael Arkush, LA Times I was wrong. This was not another gig. I found that out the evening we chatted with Mihrigul Tursun, a member of the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group...

How China is breaking apart a people and its culture

The campaign of repression against the Uyghurs has entered a new phase

How Uyghurs from China helped Syrian rebels overthrow Bashar al-Assad

Motivated to avenge their families in China, Uyghur mercenaries became valued fighting partners for Syria's rebels. Their participation helped Syria's new president ultimately win...

The World Has Failed the Uyghurs

If the global community can’t stop China’s atrocities against the Uyghurs, it must help us keep our culture alive in exile.

China’s ethnic unity law denounced as ‘forced assimilation’ by rights groups

Law comes into effect that critics fear will further erode rights of Uyghurs and Tibetans, as well as allow Beijing to pursue dissidents abroadA new ethnic unity law has come into...

China tells its ethnic minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new unity law

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Beijing (CNN) — For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nati...

Eliminating language, culture & faith: Xi's repression of Uyghurs enters new phase

China's Xinjiang crackdown shifts focus from camps to identity, language, and religion. Despite claims of re-education graduates, a vast network of prisons, surveillance, and board...

China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Cup: Football and Assimilation in the Uyghur Region

A football tournament is China’s latest propaganda campaign to whitewash its abuses of Uyghur people – and deconstruct Uyghur identity in favor of Chinese “unity.”

I learned the feeling of statelessness in my Uyghur homeland

Feelings of statelessness happen when a people’s language, their culture, their memories, and future no longer have an equal place in the land they call home.

CHINA-XINJIANG-URUMQI-9TH CHINA-EURASIA EXPO (CN)

(260625) -- URUMQI, June 25, 2026 (Xinhua) -- People purchase cultural and creative products during the 9th China-Eurasia Expo in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygu...

Human rights concerns abound over China’s ‘state secrets’ regulation in the Uyghur region

In a region characterized by high levels of security governance and information control, the legal adjustments have significant consequences on the normalization and codification o...

China Defends Widely Criticized ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law

Rights groups and Western officials have criticized the law as a threat to Tibetans, Uyghurs and other minorities. Beijing says the measure aims to protect them.

Feature: Ancient Silk Road legacy lives on in Xinjiang sports culture

URUMQI, May 18 (Xinhua) -- As music echoed through the stadium in Urumqi, capital of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, thousands of fans filled the stands for the opening c...

Uyghurs Wonder: Does the US Still Care About Human Rights in China?

After a disappointing Trump-Xi summit, Uyghurs in the United States are divided on Washington’s commitment to ending abuses in China. 

China Focus: NW China's Xinjiang widens Altai cooperation platform as Central Asian participation grows

URUMQI, June 10 (Xinhua) -- A regional cooperation platform launched by northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has expanded its circle of participants, bringing in repr...

China Can Target People Outside Its Borders Under New Ethnic Unity Law

China passed the law in March to create a "shared" national identity among the country's 55 ethnic minority groups, which include Tibetans and Uyghurs, some of whom chafe under Chi...

Experts raise concern over China’s ‘ethnic unity’ law

The World Has Failed the Uyghurs

Tahir Imin, The New York Times For the past decade, an uncrossable distance has separated me from my daughter. She is in the Uyghur homeland — what China's government calls Xinjia...

China Focus: In Xinjiang, visiting int'l media leaders see a region in motion

URUMQI, July 7 (Xinhua) -- From the observation deck at the Urumqi International Land Port Area, Xinjiang looked less like a distant frontier than a region in motion. Below, gantry...

На кого работают инфоцыгане: на уйгурских сепаратистов или на Ташиева

Кто и зачем снова разжигает антикитайские настроения в Кыргызстане

Toronto Protest Condemns China’s Ethnic ‘Unity’ Law as US, EU Voice Concern

Human rights groups rallied outside the Chinese Consulate in Toronto after China's new Ethnic Unity Promotion Law took effect, warning it could expand transnational repression and...

In Inner Mongolia, China’s Assimilation Campaign Moves Online

A January 2026 report suggests Beijing is now targeting the digital communities that were Mongolian speakers’ last refuge – in a region that never posed a separatist threat.

Xinjiang records surging entry-exit trips in first half of year

URUMQI, July 7 (Xinhua) -- More than 2.4 million entry-exit personnel were inspected at ports of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the first half of 2026, marki...