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The article informs on the enactment of the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act by the U.S. President Joe Biden. It mentions that the law bans imports of products from the region of Xinjiang in China on the presumption they are made with the forced labour of Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group enduring horrific repression.

Relates the experience of an Uighur immigrant in the U.S. Cost of acquiring fake documents; Difficulty in adjusting to another culture; Experience of violence and discrimination; Method of coping and adjusting.

Addresses the issues related to natural resources and human rights. Information on the overturn of arms embargo to China by the European Union; Efforts of the Uighur community to advocate the war on terrorism in Tibet; Increase in the migration people from the countryside to urban cities in China, Europe and the U.S.

This article reports that U.S. President Barack Obama was unsuccessful in transporting two Chinese Uighur prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba to Virginia for resettlement. Republican Representative of Virginia Frank Wolf penned a public letter of outrage to Obama that stalled the plan. It is suggested that Obama may face difficulties in his efforts to close the detention center.

The article informs that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that it will not join the battle over the fate of seven ethnic Uighurs imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It informs that 23 members of the Uighur Muslim minority from western China got imprisonment. The legal battle of the Uighurs was started in 2005 when the detainees sought habeas corpus relief under the suspension clause of the U.S. Constitution.

In this article the author discusses the travails undergone by Rebiya Kadeer, a Chinese businesswomen and human rights campaigner. The writer notes the similarities between Kadeer and herself, but points out that Kadeer was harassed, imprisoned and eventually exiled to the United States. Kadeer's efforts on behalf of her ethic group the Uighurs and the persecution of her family members remaining in China are described.

The article focuses on a group of Uighurs who has been detained in the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba for more than six years and has no home to return to after being persecuted by China. 17 Uighurs are still staying in the center despite having been cleared for release long ago. Litigator Sabin Willett was convinced that the detainees were indirect victims of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush's efforts to win Chinese support in the United Nations Security Council for an Iraq invasion.