of Campaign for Uyghurs, Chair of the Executive Committee of World Uyghur Congress Dr Hai V.

The complaint also questions Temu’s claims of being socially responsible, as some products were “likely being produced using forced labor” by Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region, citing a report from the House Select Committee on the CCP.

Activists say they are mass detention camps holding more than 1 million ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims.

, Epoch Times journalist Venus Upadhayaya hosts an interview with Gulchehra Hoja, a prominent Uyghur journalist for Radio Free Asia.

China worries that Uyghurs, who speak a Turkic language, have gone to places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq to fight for militants.

Since then, the Chinese regime has labeled Uyghurs a terror threat, justifying the severe suppression of the population as anti-terror measures, including banning students from speaking Uyghur in schools, burning religious books, and throwing Uyghurs

BEIJING—Members of the Uyghur Muslim ethnic group are calling on China to post videos of their relatives who have disappeared into a vast system of internment camps.

Yu’s account corroborates an October 2018 Radio Free Asia report that authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region were "secretly transferring Uyghur detainees to prisons in Heilongjiang province and other areas throughout the country

For members of the Uyghur diaspora, losing a family member into the sprawling system has become all too common.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on countries around the world not to succumb to Beijing’s pressure and repatriate ethnic Uyghurs back to China, where they could be subject to heavy suppression.

Former detainees have recounted Uyghurs being tortured, raped, and even killed in these camps.

The CCP justified its treatment of Uyghurs as "counterterrorism" efforts. Official news also had started criticizing Uyghur customs, including dress, facial hair, and religious schooling.

Between Xi’s arrival on Sept. 23 and his departure on Sept. 25, hundreds-strong rallies staged by Hongkongers, Tibetans, Uyghurs, democracy activists, and Falun Gong practitioners turned out to protest Beijing's human rights abuses, projecting the faces

WASHINGTON—Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uyghurs, hundreds of scholars said on Nov. 26, warning that a failure to act would signal acceptance of "psychological torture of innocent civilians."

Escalating Crackdown on Uyghur Intellectuals At least 338 Uyghur intellectuals have been “interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared” by the CCP since April 2017, a January report (PDF) by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) found.

The CCP has used the excuse of potential “extremist threats” to justify its strict surveillance and crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in the region.

"We are alarmed by the government of China’s worsening crackdown on Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region," U.S. charge d'affaires Mark Cassayre said.

The bodies of those Uyghurs who die in the “re-education” camps are never released to their families, several Uyghur families told The Epoch Times.

Two of the confirmed individuals, Wen Hao and Yang Yining, are based in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang, where the U.S. government has accused Beijing of committing genocide against Uyghurs.

A Uyghur woman (C) going through an entrance to a bazaar in Hotan, in China's northwest Xinjiang region on May 31, 2019.

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, an organization for Uyghurs in exile, recently told Radio Free Asia that the recent efforts are the Chinese regime's latest attempts to force Uyghurs to surrender their culture and customs.

In this region where mainly ethnic Uyghur minorities reside, Bekri promoted Beijing’s sinicization policies to restrict Uyghur customs and language while forcing locals to adopt customs of the Han ethnic majority.

“For example, prominent Uyghur activists in Canada have reported receiving phone calls from Chinese authorities, informing them of the health or even death of relatives detained in Xinjiang’s complex of prisons and extrajudicial reeducation camps.”

Former detainees have told The Epoch Times that Uyghurs are being tortured, raped, and killed in secretive “political re-education” camps.

In 2022, Zacharia wrote on social media that the CCP should “free the Uyghurs,” an oppressed Turkic ethnic group of Muslim faith living in western China.

Crackdown on Uyghurs Living in Foreign Countries Uyghurs are an ethnic minority primarily of Sunni Muslim faith. They have lived in northwest China for millennia.

Over the years, hundreds, possibly thousands, of Uyghurs have escaped the unrest by traveling clandestinely via Southeast Asia to Turkey. The Uyghurs in Malaysia were part of a group of more than 200 detained in Thailand in 2014.

through education” detention system and release all Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other detainees.

“That apparatus was later turned onto the Uyghurs.” Several Chinese officials hit with U.S. sanctions for repressing Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang region have a history of persecuting Falun Gong, an Epoch Times review of their records found. Rep.