The UTJD Uyghur Youth Workshop 2024 is set to make a significant impact by empowering participants to take action against escalating human rights violations in […]
Leveraging Technology to Expose Human Rights Violations in East Turkistan
One of the key focuses of our work has been exploring how new technologies can…
Confirmatory and Additional Accounts of Oppression and the Intents behind the Relaxation of Entry into East Turkistan
Hitting a Trough of the Genocidal Wave? Following a decade of intense systematic persecution against…
Human Rights Advocacy Day
On 18 September 2025, the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) Campus Drammen hosted Advocacy Day…
Forced Deportation of Uyghurs from Thailand to China Sparks Global Condemnation
After decades of systemic repression in their homeland of East Turkistan (known as Xinjiang), many…
Forced labor harms people — our concern can help stop it
Recently, Norwegian TV2 published an article on Temu, raising serious concerns about the company’s links…
The Untold Stories of the Uyghurs: Voices of Resistance Under Oppression
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database is honored to announce the launch of its third book in the Uyghur language, The Untold Stories of the Uyghurs, with its official presentation taking place on January 10 in Istanbul, Türkiye. The recent history of the Uyghur people is a saga deeply intertwined with pain, suffering, and hope. The Untold Stories of the Uyghurs is a series of unvarnished and factual accounts of that saga - narrated by witnesses themselves. This book brings together the voices of a generation that has endured systematic oppression and racial discrimination in East Turkistan from the early 1950s to the present. The book documents pivotal and traumatic periods, including the Land Reform campaigns, the Great Cultural Revolution, the Central Asian Migration Wave,…
Habeba Omar
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am originally from…
The Untold Stories of the Uyghurs: Voices of Resistance Under Oppression
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database is honored to announce the…
Gülnar Muhammetimin
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am a Swiss…
UTJD Books Now Available for Free Digital Access
We are pleased to announce that the Uyghur Transitional Justice…
Year-End Reflection 2025 | Uyghur Transitional Justice Database
On December 19, the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) held…
Abdurahman Tohti
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am from Beshtugmen…
Voices for Freedom
The Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (UTJD) recently joined the event…
Abdurahman Memet
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am originally from…
Reflecting on UTJD’s Highlights in 2024
UTJD’s Commitment to Technology and Research in 2024 resulted in…
Panel Discussion Highlights: Remolding the Uyghurs to Fit the Han-Ethnocentric Mold
On March 4, the University of Oslo Library hosted a…
Abdusattar Shayup
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I was born in…
Eysa Imin
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book My father’s name is…
Bahram Sintash
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I would like to…
Adil Hakimjan
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I fled East Turkistan…
Habeba Omar
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am originally from the city of Korla, East Turkistan, and I would like to testify for my relatives.…
Gülnar Muhammetimin
A testimony from our “100 Camp Testimonies” Book I am a Swiss citizen, and I would like to testify for my family members and relatives. The Swiss German-language newspaper…
UTJD Concludes Workshop 2025
Workshop 2025 – Oslo, September 6–7, 2025 This year’s UTJD workshop brought together 36 registered participants, with 33 actively attending, to strengthen the link between…
Forced labor harms people — our concern can help stop it
Recently, Norwegian TV2 published an article on Temu, raising serious concerns about the company’s links to forced labor. The report has sparked public debate about…
Leveraging Technology to Expose Human Rights Violations in East Turkistan
One of the key focuses of our work has been exploring how new technologies can be harnessed to expose the atrocities and human rights violations…
UTJD Concludes Workshop 2025
Workshop 2025 – Oslo, September 6–7, 2025 This year’s UTJD workshop brought together 36 registered participants, with 33 actively attending, to strengthen the link between…
🚨 At a conference in Ankara UTJD’s Executive Director @bahtiyar_mer showcased a 3D VR model built from 4 years of testimonies & data on Uyghur abuses. With tools like #AI & VR, we continue to expose China’s crimes. #UyghurJustice #HumanRights
UTJD delivered speech on HR violations and systematic oppression of Uyghurs and other turkic peoples in ET. The event highlighted the crucial role of engaging students & academia in addressing global challenges related to democracy, hr, social justice.
📢 Advocacy Day is Sept. 18! Stand with scholars worldwide who face imprisonment & persecution for their ideas.
Together, we defend academic freedom.
#AdvocacyDay #ScholarsAtRisk #Drammen
UTJD Workshop 2025 – Oslo, Norway
September 5-7, 2025
Welcome to the UTJD Uyghur Youth Workshop 2024!
We are thrilled to kick off this year’s workshop, bringing together passionate youth from Sweden and Norway to celebrate our culture, strengthen our community, and […]
The Marginalisation of the Uyghur Language: No Longer the Medium of Instruction
Following years of gradual effort made by the Chinese regime to marginalize the Uyghur language as the medium of instruction in schools and universities, it […]
Social Media – Instagram
Social media has become a vibrant space for engagement, especially among the younger generation. In response, UTJD has taken proactive steps to increase our presence […]
THE PATHOLOGIZATION OF UYGHUR RELIGIOSITY
It is evident in official documents, e.g. the above mentioned surveillance workers’ guideline, that the regime’s mass internment drive has pathologized Uyghur religiosity. According to […]
Join an Inspiring Workshop with the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database in Oslo!
Are you a Uyghur between the ages of 16 and 26 living in Norway? Are you interested in technology, research, and activism? Then this workshop […]
THE CHINESE REGIME’S GENOCIDAL POLICY: FORCED CONTRACEPTION, STERILIZATION & ABORTION
The Chinese regime is committing yet another crime against humanity that is the systematic Uyghur birth suppression, in addition to its mass internment drive in […]
THE CAMP SYSTEM: A MEANS OF INFLICTING STATE TERROR
What has been transpiring in East Turkistan in the last few years, already engendered copious international opprobrium, can be described as “a composite version of […]
Coercive Family Separation
With 1 to 3 million people incarcerated in some form of mass internment, many Uyghur children have been deprived of one or both parents. Countless […]
Uyghur Forced Labor
Forced labor, as it was slowly being rolled out since the summer of 2018, became the next chapter of the Chinese regime’s efforts to subjugate […]