The United States has announced new visa restrictions targeting foreign officials involved in the forced return of Uyghurs ...

Gulchehra Hoja knows exactly what’s going on in East Turkestan. She has interviewed many escapees, prison guards, and others. She is a Uyghur-American journalist, working for Radio Free Asia.

She taught me our true history. Adel Abdulghufor is a Uyghur Muslim from Kashgar, in what he calls the country of East Turkestan. Officially, the region is called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ...

Xinjiang’s strategic role in the Belt and Road Initiative has also led to demographic engineering, as Beijing resettles Han ...

As the Chinese government cleanses Uyghur culture and language from East Turkistan, an entire generation is growing up without the language that once shaped their identity — a language that has ...

Uyghur separatist groups have consistently ... risk for Beijing The Taliban have long provided members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), also known as the Turkistan Islamic Party ...

Istanbul [Turkey], February 6 (ANI): The International Union of Turkestan Organizations ... of the ongoing oppression faced ...

Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan. China claims that Uighurs hold extremist views that are a threat to security. They point to attacks in 2013 and ...

"but many Uyghur and East Turkestan groups and individuals operate within Turkish law, making it impossible for the government to completely comply with Chinese demands." During the trip ...

but the reality for the Uyghur in Turkestan has never changed. Still, the millions of people suffering in the concentration camp, still Uyghur people subjected to forced labour." He also condemned ...

The U.S. and China should be working together to root out militant groups, particularly in Pakistan. So why aren't they? The Urumqi attack hints that the nature of separatism and terrorism in ...

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