URGENT REQUEST: A Uighur man, Abulikemu YUSUFU (Ablikim Yusuf), DOB: 01 Oct 1965, is currently under threat of deportation from Doha International Airport, Doha, Qatar, to China on Aug. 3, 2019. We urge the management of Doha International Airport and Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take this issue seriously […]
By Concerned Uyghur Intellectuals Zinnetgul Tursun (spelled Zinaitiguli Tuersun in Chinese), a Uighur mother of two young children was sent back from Turkey to China through Tajikistan on June 27, 2019[1]. Zinnetgul’s older sister Guljennet (lives in Saudi Arabia) managed to contact their mother in Ghulja, China, and was told […]
Author: Abdullah Tohti Arish Translation: Uighur Fact Group Since the occupation of East Turkistan in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been committing tremendous atrocities against Uighurs and other ethnic groups of East Turkistan. The Yarkand Massacre is just another portrayal of the Chinese regime’s crimes in East Turkistan. […]
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says extradition bill ‘dead’ Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said her administration’s bill to allow people to be sent to the Chinese mainland for trial was “dead” following a series of mass protests, but she stopped short of completely […]
Friday, May 24, 2019 Chinese regime launches ethnic identity change policy in Uighur homeland The police in the Uighur homeland (XUAR) started to ask residents to change their ethnic identity on the police record, according to an advertisement posted in a Wechat (a Chinese social media app) group called […]
By Uighur Times. March 12, 2019. Columbia Law School, NY Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 6:40pm to 8:40pm Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106 Speakers: Zubeyre Shemsidin, Project Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project; Darren Byler, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington; Tahir Imin, Founder of Uighur Institute and Uigher Times. […]
By Uighur Times Feb 16, 2019. Allentown, PA. On Feb 16, 2019, Tahir Imin, Uighur scholar and activist, founder of Uighur Institute and Uighur Times presented about how China is committing genocide on the Uighur population, while the world is watching. More than 500 people from the local faith […]
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Malaysia won’t be silent on China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah told the South China Morning Post in an interview that Malaysia will continue to speak up on issues like China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims. “We understand the situation. We […]
Last week, Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service published a report on famous Uighur biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov’s alleged cooperation with Chinese companies on DNA research. The report drew a great decry and criticism against Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov among the Uighur diaspora. The East Turkistan Uyghur Intellectuals Forum, a forum of Uighur […]
Monday, April 1, 2019 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on China to ‘release all arbitrarily detained’ On March 27, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Uighur, Kazakh, and other minority group survivors and family members of China’s campaign of repression at the US Department of […]