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Radio Free Asia reported on November 6 that Uyghur woman Reyila Wumaer was sent to a re-education camp at the age of 14 in 2017, sentenced to 12 years in prison at 18 in 2021, and died in a Xinjiang prison at 23. Local police and judicial authorities confirmed her death; one officer claimed she died of a heart attack but did not specify the condition or the circumstances of her death.
The official website of Xinjiang Agricultural Vocational and Technical University stated that even privately circumventing the Great Firewall to access academic materials is illegal and in violation of regulations, and demanded that people use the school's academic resources or apply for external network access permissions, adding that there are proper channels for studying and that there has never been a justified reason to jump the wall.
On October 21, Zhang Wenbin, a volunteer who has long been engaged in environmental supervision and runs the WeChat public account "Zero-Distance Pollution Task Force," was taken away by police from Wanzai County, Yichun, Jiangxi, in Urumqi. Online reports say he is suspected of extortion; colleagues suspect it is related to his exposure of environmental violations by Wanzai enterprises in 2023. No official announcement has been made yet.
On October 20, a Douyin blogger posted a video claiming to have run into 8 elderly people on a train whose pensions exceed 10,000 yuan, setting off from Urumqi to the south to sightsee and spend the winter, and returning to Xinjiang once the weather warms up. Netizens left comments sarcastically calling them the "deemed contribution" group that has reaped all the dividends of the era.
Since June 2026, provincial Party secretaries from multiple provinces have led delegations to Xinjiang to meet Chen Xiaojiang, Secretary of the CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Committee, which is seen as a signal of a shift in the political winds among local officials.
According to X user QuanLujun, Uyghur children in Chinese forced internment facilities are being subjected to forced brainwashing and assimilation in full-boarding schools. The schools force children to prove they are Chinese and praise Xi Jinping, with students being compelled by teachers to chant in unison, "Taiwan and Xinjiang are Chinese territory, long live Xi Jinping."
On October 13, a netizen in Xinjiang posted a video from a construction site wearing a hard hat, saying that because his boss owes him wages he has no ability to pay social insurance, that he is making a living hauling bricks, promising to pay the arrears as soon as he receives his wages, and calling on the relevant parties to stop pressing him.
On October 11, staff at the Kanas scenic area in Xinjiang lured a stray little black dog with a ham sausage, looped a thin rope around its neck, dragged it violently and kicked it repeatedly, causing it to collapse from suffocation. Video from the scene has spread online.
On October 10, 2026, a netizen submitted a report claiming that a student at Huabing Middle School in Urumqi was given a major demerit by the school for eating instant noodles, drawing attention.
In the comment section of a post about a student at Huabing Middle School being given a major demerit for eating instant noodles, netizens revealed that students at a middle school in the Altay Prefecture had also been given demerits for eating instant noodles.
On October 2, at the Urhe World Devil City scenic area in Karamay, Xinjiang, a shuttle bus bypassed the queue to pick up tourists from the back rows. A large crowd of tourists surrounded the bus, shouting for the queue-jumpers to get off. Even after police arrived, the driver still drove away. The scenic area later issued an apology, saying it had added vehicles and staff. Some of the videos exposing the incident were subsequently reported and taken down.
On October 1, a Japanese tourist posted that while dining at a restaurant in Turpan, Xinjiang, she was refused service and thrown out by the owner because of her Japanese nationality, even though she had eaten at the same restaurant normally the day before; after she called the police, officers who arrived said the restaurant has the right to choose its customers and cannot be forced to cook for them.
A China Energy Engineering infrastructure worker in Xinjiang said he had no time off during the National Day holiday, and received neither overtime pay nor compensatory leave.
On September 30, in Burqin, Altay, Xinjiang, a China Energy Engineering infrastructure worker complained that he got no day off for National Day, no triple pay and no compensatory day off, then mocked himself by saying he wished the motherland prosperity.
Starbucks opened two branches in Xinjiang on September 29, located at Tianshan International Airport and the International Grand Bazaar flagship store respectively, and was subsequently publicly criticized by members of the US Congress.