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Carolyn Drake / Magnum Xinjiang Has Produced Its James Joyce
And he’s now sitting in a prison camp.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Uyghur Poems From a Chinese Prison
The acclaimed poet Gulnisa Imin is serving a 17-year sentence because her work supposedly promotes “separatism.” She’s still writing.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic We Are All Realists Now
The NBA has Enes Kanter Freedom where it wants him—out of sight, out of mind, like the Uyghurs themselves.
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Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty The Muslim World Isn’t Coming to Save the Uyghurs
As China prepares to host the Winter Games, it can count on the tacit support of majority-Muslim countries.
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John Macdougall / AFP / Getty Do Uyghur Lives Matter to Americans?
Plus: Who would you appoint as POTUS?
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Photo courtesy of Aséna Tahir Izgil The Experiment Podcast: A Uyghur Teen’s Life After Escaping Genocide
The Uyghur refugee Aséna Tahir Izgil escaped the genocide of her people in China. Now she’s trying to be a teenager in America.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: One Man’s Story of Escaping Genocide
A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.
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Emmanuel Dunan / Getty; Adam Maida / The … ‘I Never Thought China Could Ever Be This Dark’
Leaving Xinjiang has not meant Uyghur women are free of Beijing’s grasp.
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William Vandivert / The LIFE Picture Collection / … Saving Uighur Culture From Genocide
China’s repression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang has forced those in the diaspora to protect their identity from afar.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters Uighurs Can’t Escape Chinese Repression, Even in Europe
Activists are sharing their stories and grief—and Beijing is paying attention.
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Brennan Linsley / AP When China Convinced the U.S. That Uighurs Were Waging Jihad
In the chaos surrounding America’s War on Terror, Washington fell for Beijing’s ruse that the embattled Muslim minority posed a threat to the West.
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Shawn Zhang / Google Earth Internet Sleuths Are Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps for Muslims
The country is using high-tech methods of repression, but even the simplest tech may be enough to expose them.
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Jason Lee / Reuters China Is Treating Islam Like a Mental Illness
The country is putting Muslims in internment camps—and causing real psychological damage in the process.
