Turkic Muslims

A collective term for ethnolinguistic groups of Turkic origin who follow Islam, including Uyghurs and other Central Asian Muslim peoples primarily associated with the Xinjiang region of China. Used in human-rights reporting to refer to targets of state repression.

Claims that use this term

• HRW’s report documents imprisonment, torture, murder, enforced disappearance, forced labor, and sexual violence against Turkic Muslims constituting crimes against humanity.
• HRW’s report documents that the Chinese government is committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, including mass detention, torture, enforced disappearance, forced labor, and sexual violence.
• HRW presented new evidence of mass arbitrary detention, torture (beatings, hangings from ceilings, sleep deprivation, shackling), deaths in camps, and mistreatment of Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang.