UYGHUR JOURNALIST
Kasim Kashgar
I am a journalist covering Uyghur communities inside China and across the diaspora.From 2019 to 2025, I was Voice of America's first dedicated reporter covering Uyghur issues in English and Mandarin. I published over 300 stories on government policy, refugee displacement, and geopolitical developments affecting Uyghur populations worldwide. I also launched VOA's first Uyghur-language digital video program—the first time in the agency's eight-decade history that it told America's story directly to global Uyghur audiences.I am now building Uyghur Monitor, an independent trilingual newsroom publishing rigorous, fact-based reporting in English, Uyghur, and Mandarin on one of the most underreported stories of the last decade.This site documents that work.
