Hu Binchen, a Chinese official, has applied for a top position at Interpol. His candidacy sounds an alarm that China could again abuse the international organization to haunt its critics, including members of the Uyghur community in exile.
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A recent visitor to ‘Xinjiang’ (Uyghurland) has posted a 20-minute video of several detention facilities on YouTube, Nathan Ruser reports on Twitter. The visitor shows footage of eighteen different detention locations and one former facility.
In a shocking turn of events, the United Nations has this week fired Ms. Emma Reilly, an Irish human-rights-lawyer, and a whistleblower at UN Human Rights Commission. Her dismissal raises serious questions for the free world leaders.
In 2013 Ms. Reilly alerted her immediate supervisors at UNHRC that some officials had handed over to Beijing the names of Uyghur and Chinese dissidents planning to attend a meeting in Geneva. Dolkun Isa, the current President of the World Uyghur Congress, was among those that had their names handed over.
East Turkistan government in exile and the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement have filed the third attempt at International Criminal Court. The new evidence meets the ICC’s requirements as it includes insider witness testimonies from Uyghurs.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), with five other Republican senators, has sent a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Dev Jagadesan. They have inquired whether the (DFC) is inadvertently aiding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) export of solar panels tainted with the forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Just as the world is coming to grips with the Xinjiang cotton war, there is another conflict looming on the horizon: the Xinjiang tomato war!
By Tahir imin Uighurian The Global Times, the official mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party responded harshly to the news reports by The New York Times that The Trump administration is considering a sweeping ban on travel to the United States for members of the Chinese Communist Party and their families. […]
June 24, 2020 By Uighurian Chinese PLA held a military exercise in Tibet. by Uighurian The Chinese edition of Global times reported yesterday that the Tibet mission of PLA held an actual combat drill in the plateau region. “Recently, the Tibet Military Region held a three-dimensional pull-out and multi-equipment live-fire […]
April 22, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project On Earth Day, UHRP highlights the connection between state oppression of Uyghurs and environmental degradation in East Turkistan. The Chinese government has increased the extraction of East Turkistan’s natural resources, such as minerals and foil fuels, and has massively expanded intensive agriculture […]
March 2, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project UHRP Press Release For immediate Release March 2, 2020 Contacts: Nicole Morgret +1 202-478-1920 (o), Louisa Greve +1 571-882-4825 (m) Nike must stop making Shoes and Air Max shoes using Uighur forced labor. Nike should remove these shoes from the shelves if […]