The acclaimed poet Gulnisa Imin is serving a 17-year sentence because her work supposedly promotes “separatism.” She’s still writing. By Yasmeen Serhan To read the article, please visit the Atlantic
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Nury Turkel, an Uyghur living in the US, has written a powerful memoir about the Chinese repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is a co-founder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
The Chinese authorities have sentenced the renowned Uyghur singer and musician, Tursun Sheyih, to ten years in prison on July 30, 2021, Uyghur Times Uyghur edition reports. Uyghur scholar Abduwali Ayub confirmed the news to Uyghur Times on April 3.
Ablajan Awut Ayup is an Uyghur pop singer who went missing in 2018. Born in 1984, he grew up with his five siblings in a peasant family in the village of Guma in the Hotan district.
In January 2022, Leila Uyghur Foundation published a new book titled ‘Daddy, Daddy, when are you coming home?’ The book aims to teach children about the unique value of ethnicity and deter racial prejudice.
–March 15, 2022 The words of China’s most famous political prisoner In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in reeducation camps. One of the incarcerated—whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date—is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a […]
On March 1, the Chinese regime held a press conference in Beijing. The government spokesperson reiterated that Uyghur school textbooks had incited young Uyghurs to participate in the three evil forces: terrorism, separatism, and extremism.
Product details Hardcover · by Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Rozenn Morgat · Seven Stories Press · hardback · 240 pages · ISBN 1644211483 The first memoir about the “reeducation” camps by a Uyghur woman. “I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.”— Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris MatchSince 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the […]
Image: Abduwel Ayup Twitter On ‘International Mother Language Day’, let us not forget the Uyghur poets, writers and intellectuals who have paid a heavy price for promoting the Uyghur language. Uyghur poet Qasim Sidiq is one such author. He was sentenced to 15 in prison for his writings about the […]
Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City n Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes […]