Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Malaysia won’t be silent on China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah told the South China Morning Post in an interview that Malaysia will continue to speak up on issues like China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims. “We understand the situation. We […]
Month: April 2019
Uighur Times April 20, 2019 Last month, Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that it will invite Beijing-based European Union diplomats to visit East Turkistan to investigate allegations of human rights violations against Uighur and other Turkic Muslims. However, the European Union rejected the invitation citing “such a visit requires careful preparation […]
Last week, Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service published a report on famous Uighur biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov’s alleged cooperation with Chinese companies on DNA research. The report drew a great decry and criticism against Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov among the Uighur diaspora. The East Turkistan Uyghur Intellectuals Forum, a forum of Uighur […]
Sunday, April 14, 2019 With Pressure and Persuasion, China Deflects Criticism of Its Camps for Muslims China has been fighting criticism that it has detained as many as one million members of Muslim ethnic minorities in indoctrination camps in its western Xinjiang region (occupied East Turkistan). But at […]
Uighur Times April 1, 2019 Chinese camp system evolving into “Xinjiang Archipelago”? For the Uighurs, an individual’s level of religious devotion and Chinese-language skills are factors determining the severity of punishment, a researcher says. China’s crackdown in Xinjiang province (occupied East Turkistan) has attracted increasing international […]
Uighur Times Published: 4-8-2019 For repressive regimes, frontier technology can mean new ways to gain and maintain power. Will big data and artificial intelligence liberate or surveil? Human Rights Foundation organized one of the most critical panels of SWSX 2019 ,inviting Uighur linguist and police state survivor Tahir Imin, […]
Monday, April 1, 2019 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on China to ‘release all arbitrarily detained’ On March 27, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Uighur, Kazakh, and other minority group survivors and family members of China’s campaign of repression at the US Department of […]