Munich, Aug. 15 -- The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), in its latest weekly brief, highlighted new research documenting China's expanding efforts to exert pressure on Uyghurs living outside the country, alongside developments involving Uyghur cultural participation in Europe and growing concerns over China's new law governing ethnic unity and progress.

According to the WUC brief, a new peer-reviewed report by researcher Adrian Zenz and co-author Iliqud Muetter examines China's evolving transnational repression targeting the Uyghur diaspora. The study finds that Beijing's increasing willingness to allow Uyghurs living abroad to travel to East Turkistan to visit family members has, in some cases, been accompanied by intensified surveillance, ...