New Genocide Watch Report Finds China at Extermination and Denial Stages in Uyghur Genocide

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December 23, 2025

Justice For All’s Save Uyghur welcomes new report by Genocide Watch, which concludes that the Chinese Communist Party’s policies against Uyghur Muslims meet multiple advanced stages of genocide under international law.

The report finds that the Chinese government’s actions in Chinese-occupied East Turkistan aka the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region span Stages 3, 8, 9, and 10 of genocide. These include systematic discrimination, mass persecution through detention and torture, exterminatory acts such as mass rape and the removal of Uyghur children, and ongoing denial by Chinese authorities and their international defenders.

Genocide Watch documents the use of mass detention camps, forced political indoctrination, bans on the Uyghur language, widespread destruction of mosques, forced labor programs, coercive population control policies, and the separation of Uyghur children from their families into Mandarin-only institutions. The report warns that these acts constitute both genocide and crimes against humanity under the Genocide Convention.

“This report removes any remaining ambiguity,” said Arslan Hidayat, Team Lead of the Save Uyghur Campaign. “Genocide Watch is clear that what is happening to Uyghurs is not cultural policy or counterterrorism. It is a coordinated campaign that has reached the extermination and denial stages of genocide. Governments that continue business as usual with Beijing are choosing complicity over accountability.”

Genocide Watch also issued a set of urgent recommendations to halt further atrocities. These include banning imports made with Uyghur forced labor, enforcing strict supply chain transparency, prohibiting investments in companies linked to forced labor, blocking exports of surveillance and AI technologies used in repression, and expanding humanitarian protections, asylum, and resettlement for Uyghur refugees.

“These recommendations are not radical. They are the minimum legal and moral obligations of states that claim to uphold human rights,” said Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid, President of Justice For All. “The stages of genocide identified in this report are a warning to the world. History will judge whether governments acted when the evidence was undeniable or looked away while an entire people were erased.”

The Save Uyghur Campaign urges the United States, the European Union, and UN member states to immediately implement Genocide Watch’s recommendations, strengthen enforcement of forced labor bans, expand refugee protections for Uyghurs, and end the flow of technology and capital that enables mass repression in East Turkistan.

Contact Information: Hena Zuberi, Director Of Advocacy

Email: hena@justiceforall.org. Phone: 202-908-JUST

Website: https://www.justiceforall.org/save-uighur/