Many Uyghurs left East Turkestan when the CCP intensified its persecution after the Ghulja Massacre in 1997, a major Uyghur protest of the CCP’s control of East Turkestan.

The arrest and sentence of a Uyghur filmmaker and director by the Chinese government has prompted international calls from human rights groups and activists for his immediate release.

The Uyghur genocide in East Turkestan is unfolding with support from the Muslim world, influenced by China’s strategic interests in oil and the Belt and Road Initiative.

Istanbul [Turkey], February 6 (ANI): The International Union of Turkestan Organizations (IUETO) led a significant protest to mark the 28th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre, an event that has ...

The leader of a group seeking independence for the Uyghur people from China has called for the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for President Xi Jinping.

Many Uyghurs yearn for a return to an independent East Turkestan, but such aspirations are strikingly absent in the writings of Ilham Tohti, a 52-year-old economics professor who has been a ...

East Turkestan, where the Uyghur ethnic group faces significant human rights abuses, has become a focal point of international scrutiny, Politico reported.

Salih Hudayar, foreign minister of East Turkestan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) on Saturday participated in a virtual discussion organised by the Asian Human Rights Forum, focusing on grave human ...

Memetali was speaking to MEE in an Istanbul suburb in a building that houses a Uyghur organisation called the Association of East Turkestan Scholars (East Turkestan is the name the Muslim ...

The World Uyghur Congress describes itself as a nonviolent and peaceful movement that opposes what it considers to be the Chinese occupation of East Turkestan, and advocates rejection of ...

Dismissed by Beijing as “vocational training centers,” these facilities are widely condemned as cultural and religious suppression instruments. The extent of the ongoing human rights crisis in the ...

East Turkestan—the Xinjiang region of China—is the homeland of the Uyghur population. Uyghurs who have fled persecution in China are preserving their culture in exile.