September 23, 2020 By Uyghur Help Association Project Manager: Abduweli Ayup From December 2019 to May 2020, the Uyghur Hjelp Association in Norway conducted a survey on the victims of relatives and friends of Uyghurs mainly living in Istanbul, Turkey. A total of 8 team members from Turkey and the […]
Month: September 2020
By Tahir Imin Uyghurian Sept 22, 2020 Chinese Government announced on Monday a new “Appointments and removal list of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region “after Adoption at the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th People’s Congress of the Xinjiang Uygur […]
Sept 22, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) extends its deep gratitude to the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The bill is the first national legislation anywhere in the world enforcing human-rights standards to end the import […]
By Aqil Abdullah Sept 22, 2020 On Sept 14, the European Union asked for access for independent observers into Xinjiang to “truly understand” the treatment of Uyghurs in camps and China has agreed to “make arrangements”, according to Barron’s news. Although this step from the EU was long overdue, it […]
By Enwer Erdem Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation Sept 22, 2020 On 23 August 2020, I interviewed Qelbinur Sidik about the Chinese Communist Party’s “National Unity” policy in the Uyghur region and the strategy of assigning so-called Chinese official “relatives” to Uyghur families. Here is what she said: We have […]
Sept 19, 2020 The Chinese authorities announced that they accepted European diplomats’ demand to visit the Uyghur region. But in its statement, the Chinese government made it clear that this investigation would not be independent by stating that it will not listen to Europe’s human rights lectures,” and would not […]
How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region Within weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, […]