URGENT REQUEST: A Uighur man, Abulikemu YUSUFU (Ablikim Yusuf), DOB: 01 Oct 1965, is currently under threat of deportation from Doha International Airport, Doha, Qatar, to China on Aug. 3, 2019. We urge the management of Doha International Airport and Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take this issue seriously […]
Uyghur Genocide
International recognition and major reports
Source link: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-china-idUSKCN1UP17W ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will send an observation team to China’s Xinjiang region, the Turkish foreign minister said on Tuesday after discussing the situation of Uighur Turks with his Chinese counterpart. China has faced growing international opprobrium for setting up what it calls vocation training centers to […]
Author: Abdullah Tohti Arish Translation: Uighur Fact Group Since the occupation of East Turkistan in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been committing tremendous atrocities against Uighurs and other ethnic groups of East Turkistan. The Yarkand Massacre is just another portrayal of the Chinese regime’s crimes in East Turkistan. […]
Remarks by David J. Ranz, June 6. 2019 Original news link: https://www.state.gov/confronting-atrocities-in-china-the-global-response-to-the-uyghur-crisis/ As prepared Good morning, salam alaikum, and “Yahshimusiz”. My name is David Ranz and I am the acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, within the Bureau of South and Central Asia Affairs (SCA). On behalf […]
Remarks by Carl Gershman, June 6. 2019 Original news link: https://www.ned.org/confronting-atrocities-in-china-the-global-response-to-the-uyghur-crisis/ I want to congratulate Dolkun Isa and the World Uyghur Congress – and also the Uyghur Human Rights Project, the Uyghur American Association, and the George Washington University Central Asia Program for taking the initiative to organize this important […]
Uighur Times Tahir Imin Uighurian May 10, 2019 The police in the Uighur homeland (XUAR) started to ask residents to change their ethnic identity on the police record, according to an advertisement posted in a Wechat (a Chinese social media app) group called “Xinjiang group for lost people”. The post […]
Uighur Times Published: 4-8-2019 For repressive regimes, frontier technology can mean new ways to gain and maintain power. Will big data and artificial intelligence liberate or surveil? Human Rights Foundation organized one of the most critical panels of SWSX 2019 ,inviting Uighur linguist and police state survivor Tahir Imin, […]
One Voice, One Step, a Uighur women’s initiative is going to organize a photo exhibition themed: Concentration Camps are back, “Never Again” is being tested. The announcement said “Millions of Uighurs are in indefinite detention in Soviet Gulag styled Concentration camps in the ocuupied land of North West China.” The […]
By Qasim Ilyaruq “The detainees were fearful to be taken to the State Security police”, Yasin said, who spent one month in a concentration camp in Hotan prefecture of “Xinjiang” province (a.k.a., East Turkistan, occupied by China) in summer 2017 and currently living in exile in Turkey. “The instructor […]
Uighur Times Editorial Tahir Imin Uighurian 2019-02-01 The Chinese government denied the existence of the Concentration Camps when the international community discovered them in 2018. However, feeling pressured in front of increasing evidence such as testimonies provided by several former detainees who were lucky enough to leave […]