Leigh Hartman

Life for Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang is like living in an open-air prison, with cameras everywhere, police on every corner and no privacy.

Though the Chinese government calls them schools, budget documents, human rights reports and survivors' accounts tell a more brutal story.

Uighurs who survived China’s detention camps or lost family members to the camps shared their stories with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Learn some commonplace activities that have put thousands of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in internment camps in China.

After reports of the death of a popular Uighur musician, the Turkish government called out China's treatment of Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities.

Uighur Muslims are an ethnic minority in China. The Uighurs are persecuted by the Chinese government, with hundreds of thousands held in detention camps.

Speaking at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, the daughter of a Uighur scholar described her family's persecution by the Chinese government.