The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020

Uigurs, are a Turkic minority ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia.

They are considered to be one of China's 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities. The Uyghurs are recognized by the Chinese government only as a regional minority within a multicultural nation. The Chinese government rejects the notion of the Uyghurs being an indigenous group.

The Uyghurs are recognized as native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China.

The Uyghurs gradually started to become Islamized in the 10th century and most Uyghurs identified as Muslims by the 16th century. Islam has since played an important role in Uyghur culture and identity.

Since 2015, it has been estimated that over a million Uyghurs have been detained in Xinjiang re-education camps.

The camps were established under General Secretary Xi Jinping's administration with the main goal of ensuring adherence to national ideology of countering extremism and terrorism and promoting assimilation.

The re-education camps also function as forced labor camps in which Uyghurs and Kazakhs produce various products for export, especially those made from cotton grown , shoemaking, mobile phone assembly and tea packaging, giving a base monthly salary

 Critics of China's treatment of Uyghurs have accused the Chinese government of propagating a policy of sinicization in Xinjiang in the 21st century, calling this policy an ethnocide or a cultural genocide of Uyghurs.

Sinicization, sinicisation, sinofication, or sinification, or sinonization is a process whereby non-Chinese societies come under the influence of Chinese culture,

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