Uighurs in a sentence

Experts say the campaign against Rozi's books is part of a systematic effort by Beijing to distance young Uighurs from their language and culture, including by putting thousands of Uighurs in Mandarin-only orphanages and boarding schools.

Even before the publication of the article, China’s campaign against the Uighurs was one of the world’s worst-kept secrets.

Since 2017, according to estimates, Chinese authorities have sent more than 1.8 million Uighurs to forced labor camps, leaving their families in the dark about their whereabouts or well-being.

That appeared to shift under the Naftali Bennett-Yair Lapid government, which twice voted at the UN to condemn China over its persecution of the Uighurs.

The foreign minister conceded that “Turkish-Chinese ties have suffered over Beijing being disturbed by our attitude on the Turkic Uyghurs issue,” including a Turkish refusal to extradite to China Uighurs resident in the country.

Talk about the genocide of the Uighurs.

Alongside this process of turning Uighurs into “Chinese” factory workers, the party attacked symbols of their identity.

As many as one million members of Muslim ethnic minorities have been sent to detention camps and prison in China, including the Uighurs, a largely Muslim Turkic minority in Xinjiang, in northwestern China.

Beijing has come under intense international criticism over its policies in Xinjiang, where rights groups say as many as one million ethnic Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are being held in internment camps.

But now that the region is being jolted back to work, fears are high that the weeks of lockdown may have left many Uighurs hungry and suffering in harsh conditions.

But there is new evidence to show that the Chinese authorities are moving Uighurs into government-directed labour around the country as part of the central government’s Xinjiang Aid initiative.

Disney did not even use their platform to bring to light the violence that Uighurs face, instead thanking the propaganda departments in Xinjiang for allowing them to shoot there.

European leaders said they had registered their concerns about China’s crackdown against the Uighurs and its proposed security law in Hong Kong.

Griezmann recently sponsorship ties with Chinese telecom supergiant Huawei over its role in the regime’s surveillance of Uighurs.

He also criticised other countries' "targeting of Muslims" in the "name of free speech" but stopped short of faulting economic partner China for its treatment of Uighurs.

In December, matches involving one London-based Premier League team, Arsenal, were summarily after a post on Twitter by its German star Mesut Özil that denounced China’s treatment of the Uighurs, a largely Muslim minority in northwestern China.

Kuseni, a Uighur who used to run a tutoring center in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi, began to feel unsafe in China not long after clashes in 2009 between Uighurs and Han Chinese left scores dead and hundreds injured.

Moreover, China’s actions with respect to Hong Kong and the Uighurs demonstrate its disregard for human rights, and there is little doubt that a successful Chinese takeover of Taiwan would likewise result in extinguishing of human rights.

Much like the crackdown on what remains of Hong Kong’s autonomy, the treatment of Uighurs has sparked several Hollyw00d-related uproars thanks to the increasing involvement of Chinese companies in the American film industry.

On Thursday, the U.S. sanctioned a top member of China’s ruling Communist Party and three other officials over human rights abuses against Muslim Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang.