China still has more than half a million Uyghurs in prisons or detention centers and has expanded its repression of the ethnic group, a new report says, despite Beijing’s assurances that the northwestern region of Xinjiang has returned to normalcy. Another 3 million Uyghurs were subjected to forced labor in 2023, according to the 30-page report by the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.Using Chinese state documents, satellite imagery, survivor testimony and findings from recent academic publications, researchers concluded that between 2022 and 2024, China continued all its main repressive policies, including those that led the United States to conclude that China was imposing a genocide on the Uyghur people.
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