The senator also urged Trump to raise the Chinese regime’s persecution of Uyghurs, Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, and Falun Gong practitioners. “Mr.

The tribunal also said Uyghur Muslims were at risk while being detained in “re-education camps” in China’s Xinjiang. More than 1 million Muslims have been held in internment camps in the region, the U.S. government said. 

Matas said he believes the practice is being perpetrated against Tibetans, House Christians, and against Uyghurs in 2017. At the same time, he noted the most “prominent force trying to stop this is Falun Gong.”

The question is what happened after China became rich and conceivably more secure in its position—as its WTO accession did not newly create the policies of repression against Tibetans, house churches, and Uyghurs in Xinjiang; and Falun Gong had already

Others on the lawmakers’ list include four Uyghurs—Gulshan Abbas, Ekpar Asat, Ikram Nurmehmet, and Ilham Tohti—and three Falun Gong practitioners—Wang Youmei, Xu Na, and Zhao Ying.  Xu was sentenced to eight years in prison in January 2022.

It also says the CCP under Xi is responsible for genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim populations.

“And he was the man at McKinsey who cozied up to the Communist government in Beijing, even working with state-owned companies that violated international law and he refused to condemn the Uyghur genocide.”

linked multiple Apple suppliers to Uyghur forced-labor transfer programs.

A Wider Range of Products The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, or UFLPA, took effect in 2022.

“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

Heil urged Trump to “seize the opportunity during his upcoming summit” with Xi to call for the release of two Uyghurs, Gulshan Abbas and Ekpar Asat; Pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife, Pang Yu; Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai; and Panchen Lama

There's a lot of forced and essentially slave labor in China, and not just Uyghurs. We've got the Tariff Act of 1930, which bars the importation of goods made with forced labor into the United States.

"For Uyghur teachers, on the other hand, fluency in both Uyghur and Mandarin is required, and Uyghur teachers whose Mandarin is insufficient face unemployment," the report states in its introduction.

Groups that have reported alleged transnational repression include Pakistani, Tibetan, Kurdish, Indian, Palestinian, West Papuan, Chinese, Uyghur, Tibetan, and the spiritual practice Falun Gong.

regime militarily threatens democratic Taiwan; steals maritime territory from the Philippines, Vietnam, and other South China Sea claimants; takes Himalayan territory from India by force; and destroys the freedoms of religious minorities such as the Uyghurs

Legal scholars and rights advocates say this extraterritorial provision could deter overseas Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongolians from speaking out against the CCP for fear of consequences when traveling to China.

An estimated 46 percent of them are Uyghurs, and the Sunni Islam is the main religion.

"China's accusation against Uyghurs has special political purpose: China links Uyghurs and terrorism to suppress and attack both," said Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman with the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress, in a telephone interview.

Protesters in Turkey, which has cultural ties to the Uyghurs and accepted an earlier group of Uyghur refugees from Thailand, ransacked the Thai Consulate in Istanbul overnight.

(Courtesy of Greater Philadelphia Falun Dafa Association)The citation referred to decades of political persecution in China and named Tiananmen Square demonstrators, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong practitioners among those affected.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expanded the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, which blocks imports of Chinese goods produced with forced labor in Xinjiang, the department announced on July 31.

He noted Ma intimated that Uyghur forced labour has not taken place in China, “even though numerous bodies have concluded that a genocide, including forced labour, is taking place against the Uyghurs in the PRC [People’s Republic of China].”

targeting Uyghurs and human rights activists in Canada.

"That law says that those who threaten the cultural unity (i.e. no Uyghur, Tibetan or Falun Gong cultures) of China can face the force of Chinese law anywhere outside China," she said in an email.

“I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.”

carried out by China against Uyghurs.”

The same logic applies to Uyghurs, Mongols, Hui Muslims, Hongkongers, and Taiwanese. Beijing does not separate internal control from external narrative management.

The requested details included the gathering point, route, and endpoint of a pro-democracy march in Vancouver, Canada; venues for Uyghur cultural events in Turkey; and Oslo Freedom Forum screenings.

Such exit bans have been imposed on Chinese citizens and foreign nationals in the past, including prominent business leaders, managers, and minority ethnicities such as the Uyghurs.

These were the institutional seeds of today’s Uyghur reeducation camps. Restrictions on Uyghur religious practice triggered the 1997 Ghulja massacre. Official sources say 10 died, while exile sources claim far more.