By Uyghur Times StaffMay 8, 2025 | Washington, D.C. Leaders from Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) and the Uyghur Academy International met with former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to thank him for his historic role in recognizing the Uyghur genocide. CFU Executive Director Rushan Abbas, Uyghur Academy President Dr. […]
Source reporting by the only international Uyghur language news service has revealed the depth of repression inside Xinjiang. By RFA Uyghur; Source: FRA.org 2025.05.07 Radio Free Asia has provided a unique, international news service for Uyghurs that has exposed China’s creeping persecution of the minority Muslim group in real time, culminating […]
By Uyghur Times Staff May 8, 2025 | Washington, D.C. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025 (H.R. 1503) with overwhelming bipartisan support, aiming to combat the gruesome practice of forced organ harvesting, particularly in China. The bill, introduced by Rep. Chris […]
By Tahir Imin Uyghurian, Uyghur Times | May 3, 2025 As the U.S.-China trade war escalates again—triggered by rising tariffs, a crackdown on Chinese e-commerce giants like Shein and Temu, and political finger-pointing over fentanyl—American media outlets have saturated the airwaves and headlines with economic anxieties. But amid the noise, […]
By Orqun, May 3, 2025 Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil received Sweden’s poetry award, the Cikada Prize, at the Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C. on April 24. Tahir Hamut Izgil posted on social media: “Today I received Sweden’s poetry award, the Cikada Prize, at the Swedish Embassy in Washington D.C. […]
WUC Chair Rushan Abbas to Release Memoir Chronicling Uyghur Human Rights Struggle By Uyghur Times StaffMay 2, 2025 – Washington, DC Prominent Uyghur human rights advocate Rushan Abbas is set to release her memoir, Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom, on June 10, 2025, through Optimum Publishing International. The book, […]
By Uyghur Times StaffApril 30, 2025 – Geneva A major investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and partners has exposed how China manipulates UN human rights bodies through fake NGOs—known as GONGOs—while targeting Uyghur activists with cyberattacks and surveillance abroad. The report, Inside China’s Machinery of Repression, […]
By Uyghur Times Staff May 3, 2025 Harvard University quietly trained members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)—a Chinese paramilitary group sanctioned by the U.S. for its role in the Uyghur genocide—even after the sanctions took effect. The XPCC, which operates in the Uyghur homeland under Chinese Communist […]
By Uyghur Times StaffApril 2025 Three Uyghur men who spent over a decade in harsh detention in Thailand were quietly resettled in Canada in April, according to Thai lawmakers and activists. The release comes months after Thailand sparked global outrage by forcibly deporting 40 Uyghurs back to China—where they face […]
By Uyghur Times StaffMay 1, 2025 | Washington, DC The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at George Washington University has announced an online non-credit course on Chaghatay for Summer 2025. Chaghatay, a Central Asian literary language, is recognized as the historical ancestor of modern Uyghur and Uzbek. The course, titled […]