Chinese fashion giant Shein is under fire for allegedly using forced labor from Uyghurs to produce its clothing. Human rights group Stop Uyghur Genocide (SUG) has submitted evidence to the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) urging the regulator to block Shein from listing its shares on the London Stock Exchange. […]
By Uyghur Times Staff August 17, 2024, Urumqi – Meryem Nasir, a renowned Uyghur artist and a key figure in the development of modern Uyghur dance, passed away on August 16, 2024, at the age of 84 in Urumqi due to illness. Her death is being widely mourned by Uyghurs, […]
By Uyghur Times StaffAugust 13, 2024 In a disturbing show of complicity, a delegation of prominent Chinese tech companies recently visited Xinjiang (Uyghur homeland) as part of a government-organized propaganda tour. The delegation, under the banner “Red Homeland Xinjiang Tour of Beijing Internet Enterprises” (北京网络企业红色故土新疆行), was welcomed in Urumqi by […]
Author: By Uyghur Times Staff Time and Date: Aug 8, 2024 The United States has announced a ban on imports from five additional Chinese companies due to their alleged involvement in human rights abuses against Uyghurs, part of an ongoing effort to eliminate goods produced with forced labor from the […]
Author: By Uyghur Times Staff Time and Date: August 4, 2024 Kazakhstan’s Nariman Kurbanov, of Uyghur origin, has earned a silver medal in men’s pommel horse at the 2024 Paris Olympics, as reported by Kazinform News Agency and Olympic.kz. Kurbanov achieved a score of 15.433, marking a historic moment for […]
Interviewer: Hello Ms. Auelhan, thank you for agreeing to this interview with our newspaper. Question: What is a typical day like in the concentration camp? Gulzira Auelhan: In the morning, the police and teachers take us from the dormitory to the classroom. In the classroom, we sing songs and, before […]
Pakistan continues to serve as a hub for China’s propaganda, disseminating misleading narratives about the Uyghur human rights situation in Uyghur homeland. Recently, several Western parliaments have recognized the persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic people in the region as genocide, while the United Nations and the European Parliament have […]
The Uyghur homeland, central to allegations of forced labor in China’s seafood industry, has markedly increased its seafood production. The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, or Bingtuan, a corporate unit of the Chinese army, reported a production value of CNY 112 million (USD 15.6 million, EUR 14.5 million) in Q1 […]
May 17, 2024 By Carol Kerbaugh Activist and human rights advocate Sayid Abdull MC/MPA 2024 is focused on preserving Uyghur culture through policymaking and storytelling. — Sayid Abdull MC/MPA 2024 has stories to tell—his own and countless others. A Uyghur activist and human rights advocate, Abdull will graduate from the Mid-Career Master […]
China has wound down its re-education camps, but is still using work to remould the thinking of Uyghurs In a village near the ancient Silk Road town of Yarkand, on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in the far-western region of Xinjiang, the gongzuodui has been busy. The term means “work team”. In […]