China is carrying out genocide on millions of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Uyghur Region.
Mass Detention
Camps in East Turkistan have key similarities to the early Nazi concentration camps. They similarly targeted an ethnic minority and political dissidents, with detainees explicitly expected to contribute factory labor. In both cases, the detentions were made without formal charges or trials.
Torture
A former Chinese police detective, exiled in Europe, revealed to CNN in 2021 details of the systematic torture of Uyghurs in detention camps in Xinjiang, acts in which he had participated, as he had feared his own arrest had he dissented
Organ harvesting
In December 2020, human rights activists and independent researchers told Haaretz that individuals detained in the Xinjiang internment camps "are being murdered and their organs harvested."
Organised mass rape and sexual torture
BBC News and other sources reported accounts of organised mass rape and sexual torture carried out by Chinese authorities in the internment camps.
Medical experiments
Prisoners in China’s Xinjiang concentration camps subjected to gang rape and medical experiments, former detainee says (The Independent)
Compulsory sterilisations and contraception
In 2019, reports of forced sterilisation in Xinjiang began to surface.
In April 2021, exiled Uyghur doctor Gülgine reported that forced sterilisation of ethnic Uyghurs persisted since the 1980s
Forced labor
The Chinese government subjects Uyghurs to systematic forced labour.
Companies around the world are complicit.
Cultural genocide
The aim of China’s actions in Xinjiang is clear: to homogenise Uyghurs into the country’s Han Chinese majority, even if that means erasing their cultural and religious identity
