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Photo exhibition on Uyghurs held in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A photo of a Uyghur man is displayed at a photo exhibition in Beijing, China, on July 4, 2014, introducing daily life in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.

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Kobe Univ. professor Wang

KOBE, Japan - Wang Ke, a professor of modern Chinese political thought at Kobe University's Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, holds a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on March 25, 2014. He had been missing since traveling to China earlier in March and arrived back in Japan on March 24. Wang also focuses on ethnic minorities in China including the Uyghurs.

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Police on alert in Kunming, China

KUNMING, China - A police vehicle is stationed in a district where a number of ethnic Uyghurs live alongside Han Chinese on March 3, 2014, in the city of Kunming, Yunnan Province in southwestern China. The heightened security came after an indiscriminate rampage at Kunming railway station two days earlier.

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Tiananmen car crash

URUMQI, China - Photo taken Oct. 31, 2013, shows an area where many ethnic Uyghurs reside in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Chinese authorities believe the eight suspects in a fatal car crash in Beijing on Oct. 28 are involved with the East Turkestan Independence Movement, which seeks to establish an independent, self-governing East Turkestan in the region.

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Exiled Uyghur leader in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the World Uyghur Congress, a group of exiled Uyghurs, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on June 20, 2013.

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Exiled Uyghur leader in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the World Uyghur Congress, a group of exiled Uyghurs, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on June 20, 2013.

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Exiled Uyghur leader in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the World Uyghur Congress, a group of exiled Uyghurs, speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on June 20, 2013.

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Uyghurs' protest in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Uyghurs stage a demonstration against China in Tokyo on May 17, 2012. They are members of the World Uyghur Congress, which calls for political independence for Uyghurs who live in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China.

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Uyghurs' protest in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Rebiya Kadeer (C), leader of the World Uyghur Congress, and other Uyghurs stage a demonstration against China in Tokyo on May 17, 2012. The group calls for the political independence of Uyghurs who live in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China.

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Uyghur congress in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Rebiya Kadeer (2nd from L), leader of the World Uyghur Congress, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2012. The congress, which seeks political independence for the Uyghurs, began a four-day general assembly meeting in Tokyo earlier that day, despite Chinese opposition to Japan's issuing of an entry visa to Kadeer.

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Uyghur congress begins in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Rebiya Kadeer (C), leader of the World Uyghur Congress, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 14, 2012. The congress, which seeks political independence for the Uyghurs, began a four-day general assembly meeting in Tokyo the same day, despite Chinese opposition to Japan's issuing of an entry visa to Kadeer.

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Uyghur congress begins in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the World Uyghur Congress, gives a speech during its general assembly meeting in Tokyo on May 14, 2012. The congress, which seeks political independence for the Uyghurs, began a four-day general assembly meeting in Tokyo the same day, despite Chinese opposition to Japan's issuing of an entry visa to Kadeer.

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Uyghur in Palau says China is the terrorist

MANILA, Philippines - Adel Noori, one of six Uyghurs living in exile in Palau, is interviewed by Kyodo News in the Pacific island country in March 2012. He said in a telephone interview May 12, 2012, the charge by China that Uyghurs are terrorists is wrong, and it is China that invaded the Uyghur homeland more than 60 years ago and oppressed his countrymen.

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Unrest in Kashgar

YECHENG COUNTY, China - Members of a neighborhood watch group carrying sticks are pictured in Yecheng County in the Kashgar district of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China on Feb. 29, 2012, a day after nine attackers wielding knives killed 13 people and injured many others on a street in the county amid tension between Uyghurs and Han Chinese.

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Unrest in Kashgar

YECHENG COUNTY, China - Armed police officers are pictured in Yecheng County in the Kashgar district of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China on Feb. 29, 2012, a day after a group of nine attackers wielding knives killed 13 people and injured many others on a street in the county amid tension between Uyghurs and Han Chinese.

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Police use tear gas amid 2nd day of protests in Xinjiang

URUMQI, China - Chinese paramilitary policemen stand guard in an area where Uyghurs live in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region's capital Urumqi on Sept. 4.

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Boy holding guitar in violence-hit Urumqi

URUMQI, China - A boy holds a guitar on a rooftop overlooking a slum crowded with mud-walled houses in the Xinjiang region's capital Urumqi. The city appears to have resumed business as usual two weeks after bloody riots between ethnic Uyghurs and Han Chinese, China's majority ethnic group, but problems including economic disparities and mutual aversions between the ethnic groups still remain.

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Uyghurs, Hans resume dancing together in Urumqi

URUMQI, China - People from both ethnic groups of Uyghurs and Han Chinese dance together at a park in Urumqi on July 16. The capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region appears to be recovering from riots that broke out on July 5. The violence stemmed from discord between the two ethnic groups. Nearly 200 people were killed and 1,800 others injured in the riots, making it China's worst ethnic violence in decades.

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Xinjiang riot stems from harsh repression of Uyghurs: expert

BEIJING, China - Naoko Mizutani, in this file photo, is a lecturer at Tokyo's Chuo University who has conducted hearings on Uyghur exiles abroad.

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Uyghurs in Japan, supporters protest to China gov't over riots

TOKYO, Japan - Uyghurs in Japan and their Japanese supporters demonstrate July 12 against the Chinese government over riots in China's restive Xinjiang region in Tokyo's Shibuya district.

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Police vehicle keeps watch in China's Shaoguan city

SHAOGUAN, China - A police vehicle keeps watch July 10 around a toy plant in Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, where two Uyghurs died and about 100 others were wounded in a clash between Uyghurs and Han Chinese.

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Protest over human rights abuses against Uyghurs

Women take part in a demonstration in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 8, 2022, over China's alleged human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims.

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Raphael Gluksman and Clémentine Autain. Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Raphael Gluksman. Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Raphael Gluksman and Clémentine Autain. Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Rally in support of China's Uyghurs people - Paris

Rally against ethnic genocide, forced marriages, concentration camps, the slavery of the Oighur people pre-ordained by the Chinese authorities, several thousand demonstrators marched from the Place de la Bastille to République. Probably the biggest show of force for the Uighur cause in a long time. Paris, France, on October 02, 2021. Photo by Georges Darmon/Avenir Pictures/ABACAPRESS.COM

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