Responding to the end of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s six-day visit to China, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard said:  “The time has come for […]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights must address crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations when her team visits China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region this week, Amnesty […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 27/22, UPDATE 1 BELOW Uyghur woman Buheliqiemu Abula and her 13-year-old daughter were detained near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on 31 March and told by police […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 14/22 BELOW Idris Hasan, an ethnic Uyghur living in Turkey, was arrested in July 2021 in Morocco on the basis of an Interpol red notice, […]

More than 323,000 people worldwide sign Amnesty International’s ‘Free Xinjiang Detainees’ petition Open letter urges UN to investigate human rights violations against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities New testimonies […]

In the winter of grade eleven, I took the course that inspired me to write my article: The Crossroad of Sports and Politics: Boycotting the 2022 Beijing Olympics. This course, Genocide and Crimes […]

Huseyin Celil is a Canadian citizen and a Uyghur human rights activist originally from China who promoted the rights of China’s Uyghur minority.  In 2001, he fled China after being in jail for supporting the religious and political rights of the Uyghur people. The United Nations recognized him...

Imagine if you were detained in an internment camp or sentenced to prison for years because of your ethnicity or religion, your life or travels abroad, the number of children […]

A statement delivered at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva by a cross-regional group of 43 states who are “gravely concerned” about China’s serious human rights violations in Xinjiang […]

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority men and women subjected to mass internment and torture Millions of Muslims subjected to systematized mass surveillance Muslim ethnic groups forced to abandon their […]

Pandemic lays bare massive systemic inequality worldwide with ethnic minorities, health workers, and women among the most severely impacted Report finds COVID-19 weaponized by leaders to ramp up their assault […]

The exiled families of Uyghur children held in state “orphanages” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang described the torment of being separated in a new piece of Amnesty International research […]