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As with other ethnic groups in the United States, Uyghur Americans also have several organizations. The most well-known organizations are: the Uyghur American Association, [5] a Washington D.C.–based advocacy organization which was established in 1998 by a group of Uyghur overseas activists to raise the public awareness of the Uyghur people
The Uyghur American population is small, but growing. Northern Virginia has one of the largest Uyghur populations in the United States. [21] Around 1,500 Uyghurs live in the Washington metropolitan area, with the majority living in Fairfax County, Virginia. [22] A small but notable community of around 150 Uyghurs live in the Boston area. [23]
Those claims are widely refuted by governments, human rights organizations and Uyghurs. Officials from the State Department and National Security Council pointed to multiple instances of the U.S ...
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), [12] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Tuesday it was adding three Chinese companies to a list of entities whose products are banned from being exported to the United States for their ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States blocked imports from 26 Chinese cotton traders or warehouse facilities on Thursday as part of its effort to eliminate goods made with the forced labor of ...
The Chinese government's transnational repression of Uyghurs includes detentions and forced deportations from countries like Thailand, [6] Turkey, [7] and Egypt, [8] often without due process. Domestically, Uyghurs face passport confiscations in Xinjiang, limiting their travel.
The scale of the Chinese Ministry of State Security’s efforts to harass, detain and extradite Uyghurs from around the world, and the cooperation it is getting from governments in the Middle East ...