The Chinese government has a long record of attacking Uyghur groups in the diaspora.
On a winter night in London, a teenage girl was holding a microphone reading out the numerous names of ethnic minorities who were suspected to be detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in ‘Xinjiang’ (that Uyghurs prefer to call Uyghuristan or East Turkistan)
“What is genocide?” According to Zhao Li Jian, the Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, “the U.S. policy toward Native Americans is the ‘real’ genocide.”
By Anne Kader Around fifty Uyghurs participated in carrying the Olympic torch in Beijing in 2008. One of them was Abduqeyum Semet (阿不都克尤木.赛买提), Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, writes on his Twitter. Semet, an Uyghur born in June 1962, was a graduate of Xinjiang Medical University. He later practiced as a […]
TOKYO – An Uyghur scholar, Abduhelil Abdureyim, a graduate of Chiba University in Japan, was extra-judicially detained in Urumqi in December 2021. Mr. Abdurehim had earlier returned to his homeland.
How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs
by Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times
June 23, 2021, 5 a.m. EDT
On Feb. 3, 2022, U.S. congressman Tom Suozzi of New York and dozens of activists of Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Kong, and Southern Mongolian descent protested the Chinese government’s human rights violations.
Uyghurs in Japan gathered on the streets on Saturday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Ghulja Massacre, Uyghur Info wrote on Twitter.
Agreement of cooperation for a global Muslim coalition for Uyghurs
30 January 2022 | Istanbul, Turkey
Turkish ski jumper Fatih Arda Ipçioğlu was cheered on Saturday for displaying what many Uyghurs say was the flag of East Turkistan on his skis.