It has been almost two years since Bugra Arkin’s father Aierken was abruptly snatched from his home in China’s troubled Xinjiang region by national security agents. Aierken Yibulayin’s ...

Officials in Beijing, however, soon deemed the gatherings a threat. In August 1995, key organizers were arrested, prompting ...

Gulgine has since vanished and is now believed to be among the estimated one million people — mostly Uighurs — in detention in China’s Xinjiang province. It is believed to be the largest ...

Recent longform pieces have detailed the journeys of Uyghurs who managed to escape Xinjiang and flee abroad ... Monday of his sentencing to life in prison, Marie Holzman writes at the online ...

A Thai lawyer is seeking the release of 42 Uyghurs who have spent over a decade in detention and who rights groups fear could be deported to China where they would be at risk of torture.