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Kurban Mamut, an Uyghur refugee, has been held in a deportation center by Montenegro since December 17, 2020.
In December 2020, Kurban, 47, father of three, left Turkey, where many Uyghurs are reported to be covertly deported back to China via Tajikistan, in search of refuge in Europe, as many other Uyghurs have been doing for the past few years.
Christianity Today reported that During the recent Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in Nashville, while internal disputes took center stage, a significant resolution addressing the plight of Uyghur Muslims in China went overlooked by many commentators. Southern Baptists, aligning with Pope Francis, not only highlighted the abuses suffered by Uyghurs but […]
By Mehmet Tursun 14 May, 2021 China has imprisoned or detained at least 630 imams and other Muslim religious figures since 2014 in its crackdown in Uyghurstan (so-called Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region), according to new research by the Uyghur Human Rights Project. The evidence shows that at least 18 Uyghur […]
September 23, 2020 By Uyghur Help Association Project Manager: Abduweli Ayup From December 2019 to May 2020, the Uyghur Hjelp Association in Norway conducted a survey on the victims of relatives and friends of Uyghurs mainly living in Istanbul, Turkey. A total of 8 team members from Turkey and the […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
