Advocacy Resource Library

What is Genocide? 

• WHEN TO REFER TO A SITUATION AS “GENOCIDE” 

The Xinjiang Data Project 

• The Xinjiang Data Project documents the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing program of human rights abuses and tech-enhanced authoritarianism and draws upon open source data including satellite imagery, Chinese government documents, official statistics and a range of authoritative reports and academic studies. 

Leaked Documents 

• China Cables 
• Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims
• Whistleblower 
• Xinjiang Police Files 

Reports/Atrocity Determinations (not comprehensive) 

• Holocaust museam report
• U.S. Genocide Determination
• The Uyghur Tribunal 
• Judgment Summary
• Canadian Genocide Determination
• UN Report 

Testimonials

• Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang | The New Yorker
• One by One, My Friends Were Sent to the Camps – The Atlantic
• ‘Their goal is to destroy everyone’: Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
• Tribunal Statements 

Surveillance and Facial Recognition 

Human Rights Watch

• China’s Crimes against Humanity Targeting Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims
• China’s Algorithms of Repression: Reverse Engineering a Xinjiang Police Mass Surveillance App | HRW
• China’s ‘Big Brother’ App
• China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region
• Mass Surveillance Fuels Oppression of Uyghurs and Palestinians

ICIJ

• Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals for Mass Internment and Arrest by Algorithm
• How China Targets Uighurs ‘One by One’ for Using a Mobile App

• The Global Implications of “Re-education” Technologies in Northwest China

Anti-Muslim & Minority Chinese State Media 

• The Anti-Islamic Movement in China – by Haiyun Ma
• How China distorts its minorities through propaganda
• Representations of ethnic minorities in China’s university media

Camera footage

• A Secret Look Inside a Chinese Labor Program for Uighurs | Visual Investigations

• 寻找新疆集中营 – 城乡随拍[5/8]

Concentration camps 

• China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
• 1.5 million Muslims could be detained in China’s Xinjiang
• The Xinjiang Police Files

Crackdown on Uyghur Culture

• Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang

• China sets rules on beards, veils to combat extremism in Xinjiang

Disinformation 

• The CCP, fringe media and US social platforms 
• Twitter Helped Chinese Government Promote Disinformation
• Street Propaganda in Xinjiang

Forced Labor

• Australian Strategic Policy Institute 
• Brands Implicated
• Xinjiang’s New Slavery
• China uses Uyghur forced labour to make solar panels
• Expanding Forced Labor 

Forced marriage

• Opinion | China’s attacks on Uighur women are crimes against humanity

History of East Turkistan

• The Ili Rebellion | The Moslem Challenge to Chinese Authority in Xinji
• East Turkistan Call for Independence
• 10 stages of the Uyghur Genocide 

Indoctrination

• Inside China’s ‘thought transformation’ camps – BBC News

Intimidation of the Diaspora

• China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
• Rest of World

Mining of genomic data 

• Genomic surveillance
• Mass Resignations at Scientific Journal Over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers

Mining of data by AI companies 

• The Atlantic
• NY times 
• Beijing’s Big Brother Tech Needs African Faces
• Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State
• Smarter Cities or Bigger Brother? 
• AI Emotion detection 

Pair up and become “family”

• How China is Violating Human Rights Treaties and its own Constitution in Xinjiang
• China’s Uighurs told to share beds, meals with party members
• Xinjiang, China: Uighur activist Rushan Abbas slams ‘concentration camps’

Responses from other countries: 

• 22 countries joint statement criticizing CCP 
• 37 countries joint statement praising CCP 
• Add the debate 

Satellite Imagery of Camps 

• Buzzfeed article on Camp Capacity

Sterilization

• Family De-planning: The Coercive Campaign to Drive Down Indigenous Birth-rates in Xinjiang | Australian Strategic Policy Institute
• Chinese birth-control policy could cut millions of Uyghur births, report finds 
• Research by Adrian Zenz
  • Sterilizations, IUDs, and Coercive Birth Prevention: The CCP’s Campaign to Suppress Uyghur Birth Rates in Xinjiang