Uyghur Rights Monitor

Project founded by Uyghur researchers to increase access to reliable evidence on #UyghurGenocide. Follow us on Instagram @uyghurrightsmonitor

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50,000 Uyghurs call Türkiye home, the largest diaspora outside Central Asia.
Beijing's influence network in Türkiye through United Front Work Department (UFWD) activities ranges from a party leader to a state media broadcaster, and even more.
Full brief: https://t.co/Azr1f9SC9c

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A decade of Strike Hard: A million Uyghur detained. 16,000 mosques destroyed. Birth rates cut in half. Yet, its most consequential legacy is not the campaign itself, but the permanent system of control it helped build. Read the ten documented violations: https://t.co/FrmpiSYCfv

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Beijing's 2026 draft rewrite of Xinjiang's Karez Protection Regulation drops recognition of individual owners and reframes the karez as a symbol of Chinese ethnic unity.

Link to the full analysis: https://t.co/aJvs8Wf9z4

#EastTurkestan #Uyghur

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210+ meetings in 18 months with the most crucial gov bodies. One ambassador quietly scaling China's influence network across Türkiye's ministries, media, and ruling party. Read the full brief here: [https://t.co/ZD7JlTdDPJ]

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Uyghur forced labour risk has reached your juice box. Beijing choreographs the narrative — influencers in, independent observers out.
The June 2026 Review tracks Beijing's ongoing genocide against Uyghurs in East Turkestan. Read the full review → https://t.co/r8SkyjwNQZ

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In one southern county, researchers estimate 90% of children now live at boarding school. In Guma County alone, 27,000+ Uyghur children are in dormitories — 12,000+ of them primary-schoolers, some as young as 7, some unable to say when they last saw a parent.

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China's #EthnicUnityLaw took effect on July 1 — legalizing practices it's run in East Turkestan for decades. The law turns years of administrative policy into permanent national law, and gives Beijing legal cover to export the model to Tibet and beyond. https://t.co/d5uJXMT6HS

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2008: 1 in 4 non-Han students in East Turkestan were taught in Mandarin.
2018: officials declared the transition "complete" — all 2.94M students in compulsory education taught entirely in Chinese.
A mother tongue erased from the classroom in a single decade.

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Beijing flew influencers into East Turkestan to produce content on "ethnic harmony" — displacing evidence of repression with curated images.
Mosques converted into dance bars. Nuclear silos expanding. Trump visited Beijing. Uyghur rights never came up. May 2026 Review → link bio

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The XPCC offers Han migrants employment, hukou transfer, housing subsidies, and land access — transforming settlement into demographic engineering. New research by @TurdiAblet documents Beijing's demographic engineering in numbers. Full report → https://t.co/M95PXiVUPl

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Chinese government is replacing Uyghurs with immense Han Chinese influx into East Turkestan. After 2017, natural population growth collapsed while Han settler migration surged. In XPCC-administered areas, 99% of population growth came from in-migration.

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New report for @UyghurMonitor: “Engineering Demographics” shows how the XPCC, a settler-colonial “state within a state,” drives Han settlement in the Uyghur homeland.

Engineering Demographics: The XPCC and Han Settlement in the Uyghur Region https://t.co/Bi4noqhM30

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The viral Labubu toys were made with Uyghur forced labour cotton, banned under the UFLPA since 2021. 16 of 20 dolls tested positive.

New paramilitary cities in Kashgar. Han settlers funneled into East Turkestan.

Read the full April 2026 Review → https://t.co/r8SkyjwNQZ

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March 2026 for Uyghurs: a new assimilation law, a new Han-centric county in Kashgar, Eid rebranded, and trade surging on forced labor. #UyghurGenocide #CulturalErasure Read the full review: https://t.co/42DaqOmhoi

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In 2002, Pan Yue called forced assimilation “bloody but effective.”
Today, his ideas on Han migration to East Turkestan, Uyghur assimilation, and “ethnic unity” define China’s new ethnic policy—and are now codified into law.
🔗 Read the full analysis here: https://t.co/lIFvSHNAWx

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Beijing replaced Ramadan with a state-mandated gala, courted Merz & Gulf capital, and opened direct flights from Istanbul to Urumchi. Walnut exports up 44% - on forced labor. The erasure is accelerating. The world is applauding. Read the full review at https://t.co/MwziD131Qu

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Beijing bans "prayer, fasting, religious attire & funerals... The question is no longer whether Islamic life is being erased, but whether international actors will act before the process becomes irreversible." @ErkAltay's excellent report @UyghurMonitor. https://t.co/bUqFlxz556

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Xi Jinping declared Sinicization of religion a "historical inevitability." The result: 8,500+ mosques demolished, fasting banned, and Friday sermons replaced with Party propaganda in Mandarin.

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Chinese government's official discourse frames religion as an object of political guidance rather than protected belief. In the Uyghur region (East Turkestan), authorities apply this framework by framing everyday Islamic practices as extremism. @ErkAltay https://t.co/QFsRCkYKpJ

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