Since 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been c
Detainees listening to speeches in a camp in Lop County, Xinjiang, April 2017
Mihrigul Tursun, a former detainee of the Xinjiang internment camps
Posters in Bordeaux, France, accusing Nike of complicity in the Uyghur genocide.
Mosque in Tuyoq, Xinjiang (2005)
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The Uyghurs, alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs, or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central Asia and East Asia. They speak Uy
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
…Since 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide. There have been reports of mass arbitrary…
A Uyghur man in Kashgar
A Uyghur girde naan baker
Uyghur man in traditional clothing, playing a tambur, a traditional Uyghur instrument
Mural fragment depicting two Uyghur donors, from the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves. Kept in the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin.