This man’s family vanished in China’s most oppressed region. Last month he saw his son for the first time in 2 years, in a Chinese propaganda video.

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China is waging an unprecedented crackdown on the Uighurs, a majority-Muslim ethnic group in the western region of Xinjiang (East Turkistan), China. Authorities are suspected of detaining up to 2 million people in the region and sending their children to state-run orphanages. Abdurahman Tohti, a 30-year-old Uighur man living in Turkey, hasn’t heard from his…

UN: Act to End China’s Mass Detentions in Xinjiang

Human Rights in China

The United Nations Human Rights Council should adopt a resolution establishing an international fact-finding mission to Xinjiang (East Turkistan), the region of China where up to one million Turkic Muslims are being arbitrarily detained, a group of nongovernmental organizations said in a joint statement to UN member states today. China should recognize that only an international fact-finding…

Inside the Transfer of Xinjiang Muslims

Human Rights in China

Exclusive new details have emerged about the transfer of Uyghur detainees outside Xinjiang (East Turkistan), and the conditions inside the prisons warehousing them for re-education. Bitter Winter has once again received exclusive news about Muslims being transferred to Shaanxi and Gansu. The prisons in these two provinces where Muslims are received and detained have also been…