According to UCA News, an Uyghur Christian pastor imprisoned for 15 years by Chinese authorities on charges of “inciting separatism” and “leaking state secrets to overseas organizations” has been released. Some rights groups have deemed these charges to be groundless.
Uyghur Prisoners & Victims
stories of and news about Uyghur prisoners and victims of China’s Uyghur genocide and human rights atrocities
Using the data from Xinjiang Victims Database, Boston Uyghur Association is launching a campaign of sending greeting cards to innocent prisoners in ‘Xinjiang’ (East Turkistan).
Uyghur refugee dies after almost nine years of arbitrary detainment in Thailand´s immigration detention facility, World Uyghur Congress (WUC) writes in a press release.
Breaking: VOC launched largest Uyghur Dataset: 5 million data entries, 730,000 victimsstatus
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ordered Malta not to deport two Uyghurs to China, The Independent reports.
One hour after the incident, the relevant authorities in Turkey told the Uyghur Times that at 1:00 p.m. on December 27, the Turkish anti-terrorist squad raided the residence of Abdulla Abdulhamit Qarihauji, a Uyghur religious scholar and kidnapped him.
Human Rights Defenders Information Center reported on December 2 that Uyghur singer Ablajan Awut Ayup received an 11-year sentence in prison.
A soon-to-be-completed COVID quarantine camp in the Uyghur homeland can detain up to 100,000 Uyghurs. According to the official CCP narrative, the quarantine camps serve the people with COVID symptoms.
The Uyghur diaspora is still in shock and uncertainty after a delegation of high-level Chinese police and security officials visited their Turkish counterparts in a closed-door meeting in Turkiye.
On Friday, September 30, 2022, as part of a meeting organized by the Society for Threatened Peoples, the Payot bookstore in Geneva welcomed two women survivors of Chinese concentration camps.