By Enwer Erdem Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation Sept 22, 2020 On 23 August 2020, I interviewed Qelbinur Sidik about the Chinese Communist Party’s “National Unity” policy in the Uyghur region and the strategy of assigning so-called Chinese official “relatives” to Uyghur families. Here is what she said: We have […]
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How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region Within weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, […]
By Habibulla Izchi August 20, 2020 Uyghur Times exclusive report In early July 2020, with extreme hardships, an Uzbek young man who had set up a company at the Urumqi Foreign Trade Border Regional Port returned from Urumqi to his hometown in Fergana Valley. This return has given the young […]
August 17, 2020 Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation A life story of former Chinese concentration camp teacher On March 1, 2017, at the start of the mass imprisonment campaign of the Uyghurs led by the Chinese Communist Party, the life of a school teacher from an influential family was turned […]
By Habibulla Izchi Recently, mosques and Uyghur neighborhoods in some parts of Urumqi, East Turkestan (a.k.a Xinjiang), have been demolished. According to satellite images, old photos, and information provided by eyewitnesses, the Chinese government has destroyed many prominent historical relics and monuments of Uyghur culture, mosques, and Uyghur-populated neighborhoods. In […]
June 19, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project On World Refugee Day 2020, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) calls on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to address looming statelessness for Uyghurs outside of China. The stated theme for World Refugee Day 2020 aims “to remind the […]
June 18, 2020 Hidayet Ruzi (spelled Niyzi Ruzi as per his Chinese passport), is a young Uyghur man currently living in Austria. He was studying at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt with his wife Ayitila before he had to flee Egypt in 2017. Several thousands of Uyghur students used to […]
By Ilyaruq June 13, 2020 Last month, the US State Department reported that China, in the midst of all the chaos in the world due to the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, may have carried out a secret nuclear test. “China’s possible preparation to operate its Lop Nur test site 2year-round, its […]
Written by Maryam for the Uighur Language Service of Uighur Times. This news was published on the Uighur Times Uighur language website on Apr 23, 2020. Translated into English by Uighur Times English Channel According to information acquired by Uighur Times from Chinese social media platforms, TikTok and Wechat on […]
April 7, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project The Chinese government should play no role in the selection process of United Nations experts tasked with investigating human rights abuses, while at the same time refusing to accept their legitimacy. The Chinese government’s track record of obstructing UN human rights mechanisms […]