Omer Kanat, director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and chair of the World Uyghur Congress, was the featured speaker at a presentation on China’s contemporary concentration camps, organized by the Niagara University Muslim Student Alliance and sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the political science and history departments. Kanat discussed how the Uyghurs, ethnically and culturally a Turkic people living in areas of Central Asia known as East Turkestan, have struggled for cultural survival in the face of a government-supported influx of Chinese migrants, and the political imprisonment and torture they have been subject to as a result. An estimated 1.5 million Uyghurs, who practice a moderate form of Sufi Islam and lead predominantly secular lives, live in indefinite detention due to their religious beliefs.