May 30th, 2022 marks the 85th anniversary of the untimely death of Memtili Tewpiq, a modern Uyghur educationalist, poet, and compositor. He was burnt to his death in arson in 1937.
I mourn for this great Uyghur scholar with all due respect.
Month: May 2022
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet raised more questions than answers after what was supposed to be a fact-finding mission to the Chinese occupied East Turkistan, the homeland of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Turkic groups, The Politico reports.
What is it with the rubber gloves? They are grossly used for patronization. It is not some disease control, and Uyghurs are not spreading some ideological virus. Why would elderly Uyghur female detainees need a Han Chinese carer somehow adjust their position for a mugshot? How humiliating! Why would one need one’s hair tidied up for a jail mugshot?
I went through every photograph of the Xinjiang Police Files. It was this weird mix of gut-wrenching anxiety that I might see a relative of mine & hoping that I wouldn’t. I know we’re all doing the same.
I will never forget May 23, 2017, when I heard my father’s voice for the last time and lost contact with nineteen family members. His words still echo in my ears.
Nury Turkel, an Uyghur living in the US, has written a powerful memoir about the Chinese repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is a co-founder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
For a couple of decades, the Tiananmen Square massacre kept the Chinese citizens away from criticizing the Chinese communist regime. However, under the rule of Xi Jinping, things have gone from bad to worse, TFI Global reports.
China has given $200,000 to a United Nations human rights envoy, Alena Douhan, to help the regime whitewash their ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs, the UN Watch reports. On Wednesday, Douhan wraps up a propaganda visit to Iran. Hillel Neuer, the head of the UN Watch calls on the US to condemn this cynical abuse of the UN.
United States may place Hikvision, the world’s largest video surveillance manufacturer, on the Specially Designated National (SDN) list. If enacted, this would be a historical development in US-China relations, an IPVM Report says.
Chinese border control has recently confiscated the passports of Chinese nationals returning from abroad through Chinese international airports, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.