The Uyghurs are the largest minority ethnic group in China's north-western province of Xinjiang China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur ...

A woman who was tortured in one of China’s notorious Uyghur detention camps has launched a blistering attack on Sir Keir Starmer, accusing him of “disrespecting human rights” by approving plans for a ...

The organisers of a congress for exiled Uyghurs from China allege that Beijing’s embassy in the Bosnian capital, which has called the gathering ‘anti-Chinese’, has used intimidation in an attempt to ...

My last visit home to Kumul, Xinjiang, was in June 2016, when I was just a Uyghur youth studying abroad. I did not know it would be my last trip home, my last meal with my grandparents, the last hug ...

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The long civil war in Syria was deadly and destructive. Millions of Syrians fled before Bashar al-Assad's regime was overthrown in 2024. But some people also came to Syria for the war. For the first ...

A senior Uyghur militant stands in an olive grove in northern Syria, where Uyghur commanders say their fighters began an ultimately successful assault on Syrian regime forces in November 2024. (Emily ...

Kawsar Yasin ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a joint History and Anthropology concentrator in Eliot House and co-founder of the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP. One of the first things I ...

The sister of a Uyghur man detained in a Chinese internment camp says she is hopeful President Trump can help bring her brother home after years of failures from President Biden's administration.