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A new report by the Centre for Uyghur Studies (CUS) exposes China's boarding school system in Xinjiang as a tool of cultural genocide against Uyghur children.
The report provides a thorough analysis of how the boarding school system functions as a tool of cultural genocide within the Uyghur homeland, tracing the origins of China 's assimilation efforts ...
Local Uyghur school preserves language and culture amidst persecution in China By Lily Ogburn and Lance Wilhelm / Special to the Fairfax County Times Jul 12, 2024 Updated Jul 12, 2024 0 ...
A Uyghur policeman, with angry furrows carved deeply across his forehead, sat next to him. While the Chinese man initially ignored me as he stared at his papers, the Uyghur ordered the guard to ...
According to the report, Uyghur Muslims are prohibited from engaging with activists abroad or speaking "critically about the Chinese government".
Uyghur Muslim rights activist who tried to escape oppression by fleeing his homeland with his family says the Chinese state followed him to Turkey and Morocco.
In the second and final part of our series "The Black Gate: A Uyghur's Family's Story," a Uyghur man returns to China to find his children who've been sent to "boarding schools" and his wife who's ...
Although the region was exempt from China’s one-child policy, in 1988 the government issued a new directive limiting urban Uyghur families to two children and rural families to three.
Experts from the United Nations have expressed grave concerns over the expansion of a boarding school system that forcibly separates Uyghur and other Muslim children from their families and ...
A human rights foundation says a prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people’s folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison in China.
The Centre for Uyghur Studies (CUS) has published a new report entitled "Breaking the Roots: China's Use of Boarding Schools as a Tool of Genocide Against Uyghur Muslims." The report highlights ...
According to the report, Uyghur Muslims are prohibited from engaging with activists abroad or speaking "critically about the Chinese government".