The Walt Disney Company’s live-action remake of the movie Mulan had already been receiving backlash prior to its release due to the main actress supporting the Hong Kong police and their crackdowns on the pro-democracy protesters. However, after the movie’s release on Disney+, it is receiving even more criticism. In the final credits, Disney offers their thanks to eight government entities in East Turkistan, otherwise known as “Xinjiang”, where both concentration camps and forced labour camps are present and documented.

By 2021, an independent Uyghur tribunal will be held in London, United Kingdom. The highly acclaimed British lawyer and prosecutor, Barrister Geoffrey Nice, has been asked by the World Uyghur Congress to investigate whether the Chinese government’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs in East Turkistan constitutes genocide.

The World Uyghur Congress demands that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) reconsider holding the upcoming Winter Games in Beijing, China. The growing body of evidence shows that the Chinese government is violating human rights, and committing genocide against Uyghurs and other Turkic people of East Turkistan.

Merdan Ghappar is a successful Uyghur model that is now detained by the Chinese Communist Party in one of the concentration camps in East Turkistan. When he was taken to the medical wing due to signs of sickness during the height of the pandemic in China, he was able to secretly have access to his phone and film the inside of the room. The small room with only a bed as furniture shows Mr.

Under the Global Magnitsky Act, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned four CCP officials and a Chinese entity, the Xinjiang Public Security Bureau, for human rights abuses against Uyghurs.

“Is the face mask I am wearing today made under forced labour by my relatives?” Members of the Uyghur diaspora are wondering. A New York Times visual investigation revealed that the Chinese government is exploiting Uyghurs to meet the surging international need for face masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) during the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) seized 13 tons of hair. The shipment is suspected to be products sourced from Uyghur concentration camp detainees and processed in forced labor factories in East Turkistan.

Since 2017, the Communist Party of China (CCP) has implemented a strategic policy called the “Industrial Xinjiang Aid” to eradicate the Uyghur identity while financially benefiting from it. The CCP promotes forced mass migration of Uyghurs and other Turkic people to labour factories that supply 81 well-known multinational companies such as Nike

The Chinese Communist Party does not only want to remove Uyghurs’ cultural and religious identity, but they also want to eradicate them completely. German Anthropologist Adrian Zenz observes that as China loosens reproduction restrictions on the Han Chinese population, the opposite occurs for the Uyghurs and Muslim ethnic minorities in East Turkistan.

On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, The US State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said, “In the People’s Republic of China, more than a million Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other predominantly Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang have been arbitrarily detained in internment camps, where many report torture.”

International Students Afraid to Return Home Aezimet Enver, an ethnic Uzbek, was detained by the Chinese authorities in East Turkistan (aka Xinjiang) in 2018. His case was a subject of inquiry in the United Nations. However, Aezimet was sentenced to 15 years in prison last month.

The Belgian Senate filed a motion for resolution to condemn forced organ harvesting from Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners in China. It requests the European Union to undertake an independent investigation on organ trafficking in China, and to prosecute the individuals involved in these cruel practices.

Ottawa, Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery

International Support for Uyghurs visited Parliament hill to advocate for the release of the up to 3 million Uyghurs being detained in concentration camps in East Turkestan by the Chinese Communist Party.A press conference was organized to release a written statement regarding the urgent need for the Canadian government to intervene in the safety and wellbeing of Uyghurs due to the recent outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus.