In a disturbing turn of events, Russia launched a military invasion into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, escalating the already tense situation between the two nations. Reports indicate that Russian armed forces, backed by tanks and heavy artillery, crossed the border and swiftly advanced into Ukrainian territory. The invasion follows […]
Month: February 2022
The US Uyghur Mother Tongue School in Fairfax, Virginia, hosted a ‘Mother Tongue Day’ event attended by the parents of the Uyghur students and many regular Americans learning Uyghur.
Product details Hardcover · by Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Rozenn Morgat · Seven Stories Press · hardback · 240 pages · ISBN 1644211483 The first memoir about the “reeducation” camps by a Uyghur woman. “I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.”— Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris MatchSince 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the […]
The Chinese Embassy in Dublin has told Ireland to respect Chinese sovereignty and stop interfering in its internal affairs after a delegation of the World Uyghur Congress attended a meeting in the Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday, Independent.ie reports.
Image: Abduwel Ayup Twitter On ‘International Mother Language Day’, let us not forget the Uyghur poets, writers and intellectuals who have paid a heavy price for promoting the Uyghur language. Uyghur poet Qasim Sidiq is one such author. He was sentenced to 15 in prison for his writings about the […]
Turkey has rejected citizenship and residence permit applications of thousands of Uyghurs living in Turkey, a Turkish Tum Habeler reports.
NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom receives freedom award for protesting China’s human right’s abuses
United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, can visit ‘Xinjiang’, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday. China, however, does not welcome any investigation based on the presumption of guilt, Wang continued (Reuters).
The Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off on April 4, 2022, with the Uyghur genocide still raging in East Turkestan (Xinjiang of China). This is the same as a wedding taking place next to a funeral. One of the most common and long-held rules of etiquette is not to hold a wedding on the day of a neighbor’s funeral.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), one of the leading global development banks, has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to companies in the Chinese occupied Uyghursistan (that China refers to as Xinjiang), reveals a new report released by Atlantic Council, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice and NomoGaia.