Anne Kader

The United Nations 78th General Assembly kicks off in New York City, and the global leaders have been arriving at the venue. 

China’s United Nations mission has urged other UN member states not to attend an event that will discuss Beijing’s atrocities against Uyghurs during next week’s U.N. General Assembly debate, National Review reported.

US-sanctioned Chairman of the People’s Government of Xinjiang, Erken Tuniyaz, visited Hungary in early September, and the Hungarian government “forgot” to inform the Hungarian people about it, Tompos Márton shares on X.

TIME launched the ‘TIME100 Next’ list in 2019 to draw attention to those among the new generation who have achieved peak influence in their fields.

Mr. Amrullah Efandigil, one of the most senior Uyghur public figures in Turkiye and one of the Uyghurs who lived in Turkiye for a long time and engaged in political activities and public affairs, died of a heart attack.

Mr. Azat Qasim, a writer longing for Uyghurs’ independence for many years, died in Turkey on September 13, 2023, due to illness, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.

In a newly released biography, Elon Musk, the CEO of social media platform X (former Twitter), argues that there are ‘two sides’ to China’s repression of the Uyghurs, according to a new book written by Walter Isaacson.

China has become the first nation to formally nominate a new ambassador to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, Reuters reports. The Taliban has not received global recognition from any other foreign government. 

On September 9, the Uyghur community in Japan lit a bonfire to commemorate the publication of the book “My Uyghur Youth” by Mahmut, a well-known Uyghur activist who has long engaged in political activities in Japan.

Chinese opera singer Wang Fang performed the Russian song “Katyusha” at the ruins of the bombed Mariupol Theatre in the Russian-occupied Mariupol in Ukraine, where the Russian army killed more than 600 civilians, Nexta TV reports.