Rushan Abbas, executive director at Campaign for Uyghurs, described the case of her sister, Gulshan Abbas, as an example of the CCP’s transnational repression. 

Other reasons Uyghurs have been detained include growing beards in accordance with Uyghur tradition and attending religious gatherings. “We feared going back home because everyone who goes overseas is sent to jail or detained in camps.

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress, an organization for Uyghurs in exile, told RFA he had received similar reports regarding Uyghur households.

He was being held at Shahe Prison in Wensu County in the China-occupied Xinjiang region, also known as East Turkistan by Uyghur pro-independence activists.

A-list Uyghur actor and comedian Adil Mijit.

In March, 35 groups—including China Aid, Freedom House, Uyghur American Association, Students for a Free Tibet, and Friends of Falun Gong USA—issued a joint statement urging four bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate committees on foreign affairs

China is believed to be holding up to one million ethnic Uyghurs, the United Nations human-rights panel said in August.

But, that will not matter to the CCP considering it suppresses languages like Tibetan and Uyghur that “divide” China.

Beijing has labeled Uyghurs as a terror threat to justify the group's suppression. In schools, students are forbidden from speaking the Uyghur language. Books on Uyghur religion, history, and culture have been burned.

These groups include Hongkongers, Tibetans, Uyghurs, democracy activists, and practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong. Many have families or friends detained in China for their advocacy or beliefs. 

They’re just finding any excuse to take the Uyghurs.” Numerous Uyghur families have said they find themselves in similar situations.

The Chinese regime has labeled Uyghur ethnic people a terror threat to justify their severe suppression and surveillance of Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China where many Uyghurs reside.

The resolution noted that an estimated 1 million Uyghurs were placed in a sprawling network of internment camps and other detention facilities in the far-western region of Xinjiang.

Department of Labor lists a range of Chinese goods that it says are linked to forced labor involving Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities, including cotton, textiles, polysilicon, aluminum, and some auto parts.

Even after retiring, Abbas continued to go out of her way to help Uyghur patients, getting up early to meet them at the hospital just so they could see the right doctor and have everything they needed, Murat told The Epoch Times.

The bill aims to address the Chinese regime’s persecution and forced removal of organs from prisoners of conscience, largely Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and other religious or ethnic minority groups.

Among those featured was Uyghur economic scholar Ilham Tohti, whose portrait was paired with a chalkboard of economic data.

Congress and the United Nations of using forced Uyghur labor.

That actor also used Claude to locate Uyghur businesses and places of interest in Syria, as well as surveil journalists throughout the Uyghur diaspora.

The Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act (S.4009) aims to address the persecution and forced removal of organs from prisoners of conscience, largely Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and other religious or ethnic minority

It also said Uyghur Muslims were at risk while being detained in “re-education camps” in China’s Xinjiang region. “We call it an ‘on-demand system,’” Dr.

Uyghur men at a local market in Kashgar, Xinjiang, on July 1.

This is the salt of the earth—Christian believers, Falun Gong practitioners, the Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists. Why would you look to hurt these people? “Let them thrive, and your nation thrives.”

“Espionage against the Uyghur community overseas is a priority for the Chinese security services,” according to a report published by the U.S.-based organization Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP).

Representatives of the major religious groups under persecution by the CCP—Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, Falun Gong, and Uyghurs—will share what their communities face, both in China and in America.

Your lawyer advises you that the Chinese electrical component you have been buying for years is sourced from a company that is strongly suspected of forcing members of the oppressed Uyghur population, as well as children, to work for them.

More than 1 million Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, and Christians have been subjected to forced organ harvesting over the past quarter-century. Is this the right time to do business as usual?

and other members of religious and ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, and afford Uyghurs and other persecuted minorities the freedom to travel and emigrate.”

“We request that you continue keeping those persecuted for their faith in China, including ethnic and religious minority groups such as Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, Uyghur Muslims, and Falun Gong practitioners, top of mind in conversations with President

LOS ANGELES—Renowned Uyghur economics scholar Ilham Tohti is serving a life sentence in China on charges of "separatism," while thousands of human rights activists around the world are showing him support and raising awareness of his case.