Saturday, March 23, 2019 New Zealand Mosque Shooter’s Manifesto Apparently Posted Online, Admires Communist China Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of shooting 49 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, wrote on his manifesto: “The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People’s Republic of […]
Saturday, March 16, 2019 Yale geneticist provided data used for Chinese surveillance of Uighurs School of Medicine emeritus professor Kenneth Kidd shared genetic data with scientists from China’s Ministry of Public Security, the data then has been used to profile and oppress the Uighurs in the occupied East Turkistan. […]
One Voice, One Step, a Uighur women’s initiative is going to organize a photo exhibition themed: Concentration Camps are back, “Never Again” is being tested. The announcement said “Millions of Uighurs are in indefinite detention in Soviet Gulag styled Concentration camps in the ocuupied land of North West China.” The […]
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Turkey urges China to respect the human rights of Uighurs Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council’s annual session, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu voiced his government’s concern over the human rights violations of the Uighur and other Turkic Muslims in East Turkistan. He called on […]
By Qasim Ilyaruq “The detainees were fearful to be taken to the State Security police”, Yasin said, who spent one month in a concentration camp in Hotan prefecture of “Xinjiang” province (a.k.a., East Turkistan, occupied by China) in summer 2017 and currently living in exile in Turkey. “The instructor […]
By Ilyaruq Rukiye Turdush, a Uighur activist living in Canada delivered a speech at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada about the situation of Uighurs and the Chinese concentration camps in East Turkistan, on Monday, February 11th. During the presentation, a few Chinese students tried to disturb Turdush, and one of […]
By Tahir Imin Uighurian A rally of multi-faith groups aiming to encourage the US Department of State to address the oppression of the Uighurs was held by Uyghur Rally Group in New York City on Tuesday, February 5th. This event was organized as a response to the unjust imprisonment […]
Uighur Times Editorial Tahir Imin Uighurian 2019-02-01 The Chinese government denied the existence of the Concentration Camps when the international community discovered them in 2018. However, feeling pressured in front of increasing evidence such as testimonies provided by several former detainees who were lucky enough to leave […]
By Qasim Ilyaruq On Tuesday, members of Kuwaiti Parliament, Mohammad Haif, Abdullah Fahhad, Adil Aldamahi, and Nayef Almrdas organized a solidarity event against the abuses and human rights violations happening in East Turkistan. This breaks the long silence of the Arab world towards the serious situation in East Turkistan. In […]
By Banu Sutuq Aydin Anwar is delighted to see the campaign she has run on LaunchGood since 24 January 2019, has been heading fast to reach its goal of $15,000 USD. Aydin, a Uighur activist who resides in Washington D.C., started a campaign on LaunchGood, a crowdfunding platform focused on […]