11 FEB 2018 PRESS STATEMENT ON UIGHURS IN MALAYSIAN PRISON In response to the news report, Uighur Institute urgently appeals to Malaysian Government and specifically the Minister of Home affairs not to extradite the Uighur political refugees.Uighur religious or political activists are being unfairly and inhumanly treated in their homeland […]
Month: February 2018
Uyghur Muslims: Victims of the World’s Largest Ethnic Cleansing. (Pic via Radio Free Asia) Published by CJ Werleman Independent, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project that seeks to expose and end Western injustices against Muslims. Please SUPPORT his fight against injustice by clicking here. China is carrying out a systematic campaign to […]
Political Persecution of the Uyghurs—Brief Description of Some Individual Cases Posted on January 19, 2018by freedomsherald Torchlight Uyghur Group In this report, we briefly describe some individual cases in which the relatives of an Uyghur living abroad got persecuted in East Turkestan (also known as East Turkestan Uyghur Autonomous Region in […]
UPDATED at 5:10 P.M. EST on 2018-1-12 Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang region have arrested a prominent Uyghur intellectual for exhibiting “nationalistic tendencies,” according to a source in exile, amid an intensifying crackdown on notable members of the ethnic group. Halmurat Ghopur, president of the Xinjiang Food and Drug Administration’s […]
A security officer holding a shield and baton guards a security post leading into a center believed to be used for re-education in Korla, Nov. 2, 2017. AP Photo Political re-education camps in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, face such severe overcrowding that authorities have […]
Uyghur scholar Muhammad Salih Hajim, 82, in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener A prominent Uyghur Islamic scholar has died in Chinese police custody, some 40 days after he was detained in the Xinjiang regional capital Urumqi, overseas Uyghur organizations said on Monday. Muhammad Salih Hajim, 82, […]