Washington, July 30 -- Over the past decade, China has escalated a brutal campaign of systematic repression against the Uyghur people, an indigenous Turkic Muslim group native to the region known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or East Turkestan.

Despite global outcry and mounting evidence of mass human rights violations, China's authoritarian regime continues to entrench its draconian control over the region, the Atlantic Council reported.

Since 2017, an estimated two million Uyghurs have been arbitrarily detained in vast internment camps, where they are subjected to forced political indoctrination, torture, organ harvesting, and compelled rejection of their faith and ethnic identity. The Atlantic Council noted that these acts ha...