STOP THE 21ST CENTURY HOLOCAUST: The Plight of the Uyghur People in Modern China A book written by an American high school student about the plight of Uyghurs Reviewed and Contributed to Uighur Times by Fatimah Abdulghafur Seyyah Aug 28, 2019 Ian Evans, an American high school student, published […]
Month: August 2019
Uighur Times Aug 26, 2019 “I am sorry my Chinese friends, what you are doing to these people there is no law in the world that can justify it.” This is what Dr. Olsi Jazexhi said after his recent trip to the “re-education” camps in East Turkistan, which was […]
By Erkin Sidiq Aug 25, 2019 New Information about Uyghurs in East Turkestan—News Brief (8) 1_The Chinese government recently said that they have released most of the Uyghur Muslims detained in concentration camps. But according to the information we obtained directly from our homeland, they released 4 Uyghur female […]
China and the Uighurs (Aug. 6, 2019, DW Documentary), 61k views It’s believed more than a million ethnic Uighurs are interned in China. Chinese officials call the detention facilities ‘re-education’ camps, but there’s overwhelming evidence that they are prison-like compounds designed for mass incarceration. China’s western Xinjiang region is almost […]
Qatar’s decision to withdraw its signature from among the 37 countries who signed a joint letter to endorse China’s concentration camps in East Turkistan (so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) is not only showing sympathy towards the Uyghur people suffering in the camps, but more importantly it is about protecting its […]
Original news link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/20/families-of-missing-uighurs-use-tiktok-video-app-to-publicise-china-detentions?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR2uZ25kRyQagbj8mgl8JeReBddMljSzZvMopjgWgXNW2kYacxIQI-McWO0 Uighurs are sending out messages on social media video app Tiktok (抖音 DouYin, the version of TikTok only available within China) showing family members who have gone missing, in their latest attempt to raise awareness about the estimated 1 million Uighurs who have been detained […]
Original news link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/xi-jinping-regime-han-chinese-threat-uighur-muslims-persecution-detention-camps-a9051126.html The muscular young Uighur man sat uncomfortably, glancing occasionally at three Chinese officials in the room, as he described his state-mandated salvation in a re-education camp. The man, Abduweili Kebayir, 25, explained how watching Islamic videos on his phone landed him in one of China’s notorious indoctrination […]
Original news link: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/14/why-a-new-trump-appointee-could-be-the-latest-sticking-point-between-the-u-s-and-china-uighur-american-director-nsc/ The Trump administration has appointed a Uighur American academic as director for China at the National Security Council in a symbolic move that could impact talks—and relations—between the two countries. Current and former U.S. officials told Foreign Policy that Elnigar Iltebir, a Harvard Kennedy School-educated academic and daughter […]
Original news link: https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/chinas-sickening-acts-on-female-prisoners-at-reeducation-camps/news-story/34d531c19a5bb060881a76ac8b478609 Women held in China’s vast network of “re-education” camps for political and religious prisoners have made shock claims about what was done to them. China is forcibly sterilizing women held in its vast network of “re-education” camps which house political and religious prisoners, survivors […]
Last month, we reported on July 27 that Turkish authorities deported a Uighur woman (Zinnetgul Tursun) and her two little children. The two kids are respectively 4 years old and 18 months old. After reporting the incident by Uighur Times and multiple other news media outlets, Turkish officials had denied the […]