Uyghurs in exile are demanding Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, release the long-due Uyghur Report, meet with victim families and allow them to meet with her before her planned trip to their occupied homeland. If she fails to act, she must resign.
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The US Congress has received a report on China’s horrific abuse of Uyghurs in their homeland, Bloomberg News reports.
Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams, and Walt Hickey of the Insider, win the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for their comic on an Uyghur internment camp, Insider tweets.
A group of U.S. House lawmakers introduced a resolution on Tuesday, World Press Freedom Day, which named countries including China, Russia and Belarus as nations that committed “repressive and brutal actions” against journalists.
China is “one of the worst media environments in the world and seeks to curtail political speech inside and outside the country…,” stated the resolution, citing the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2021 findings.
In the days leading to the end of Ramadan, the Chinese Consulate in Turkey distributed Eid al-Fitr packages to Uyghurs living in Turkey, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.
Ilham Tohti Initiative, a German non-profit, co-hosted a six-hour international conference in Berlin last week to inform the media and politicians about the Chinese genocidal policy against the Uyghurs and other Turkic people. The panel included Sayragul Sauytbay, a former camp detainee, and Dr. Adrian Zenz, a researcher from the Victims of Communism.
Reyhan Ablet is a young Uyghur woman living in Japan. She advocates for her elder brother, Eysajan Ablet, 46, whom the Chinese authorities detained arbitrarily in 2017.
A desperate Uyghur mother in Turkey is looking for his son Abduweli Jappar, a Hotan-born Uyghur who came to Turkey on September 1, 2015, but disappeared 14 days later. Jappar appears to be one of the 397 Uyghurs detained and deported to China, Abduweli Ayup writes in a recent tweet. He says he personally knows at least three other Uyghurs that have disappeared in Turkey. Jappar would be the 4th.
Ahmedjan Kasim, a young Uyghur activist in the Netherlands and now an author, has just published a new book titled “De Oeigoerse Droom” (The Uyghur Dream – My Fight against Chinese Oppression). The compelling story of the Uyghurs, as narrated by Kasim, has become palpable for Dutch readers. Kasim’s storytelling is commendable, Renze Klamer, a Dutch reporter, writes on the book’s back cover.
Renowned Uyghur musician Shireli Eltikin has been in captivity since June 2021, Uyghur activist Abduvali Ayup tweeted. Eltikin is potentially facing long imprisonment as his court hearing is due next month. Urumqi police abducted Eltekin in June 2021 on the pretext that he had been in contact with a foreigner, Abduwali said.