By Uyghur Times StaffNovember 11, 2023 – Istanbul, Turkey A Uyghur businessman legally residing in Istanbul was detained by Turkish special operations police along with his wife and two young children, sparking widespread concern among the Uyghur diaspora in Turkey and abroad. Ilyas Ablikim, a 30-year-old entrepreneur originally from Ghulja […]
Uyghur Refugees & Transnational repression
Transnational Repression: Uncovering coordinated efforts by Chinese government and other governments to surveil, intimidate, and suppress Uyghur Refugees and dissidents and communities beyond national borders.
In a damning report titled “I Escaped, But Not to Freedom”: Failure to Protect Uyghur Refugees, the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has accused the United Nations’ global refugee agency of failing to fulfill its mandate to safeguard Uyghurs who have fled their homeland.
In August 2013, a police officer stationed in Nubra, a secluded valley nestled in the northeastern Himalayan region of Ladakh, received an extraordinary message.
On August 25th, 2022, Saudi police arrested an Uyghur named Aziz at the Riad airport upon his arrival from Turkey. Because he does not have relatives abroad to ask for help, the information about his detention did not reach the public.
Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and ‘Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs’ have published a new report. It is titled “Beyond Silence Collaboration: Between the Arab States and China in the Transnational Repression of Uyghurs”.
We were ordered to deny who we were. To spit on our own traditions, our beliefs. To criticise our language. To insult our own people. Women like me, who emerged from the camps, are no longer who we once were. We are shadows; our souls are dead.
Two Uyghur men, Hamdullah Wali, 54, and Rozi Nurmuhammed, 46, are in danger of deportation from Saudi Arabia to China. The Saudi Authorities have detained both since 2020.
The present and the previous U.S administrations have many times condemned China’s persecution of Uyghurs and declared the country’s treatment of Uyghurs a genocide. Nevertheless, the U.S has not admitted any Uyghur refugees in the past two years. Recently the administration designated Uyghurs a priority group for asylum. Many Uyghurs […]
By Ilyaruq Nov 4, 2020 A Uyghur man who has been previously forced to spy on Uyghurs in Turkey was shot and heavily wounded in Istanbul on Monday, November 2. The man, Yusufujiang Aimaitijiang, was wounded in the arm and shoulder when a stranger shot him from behind on Monday […]
UHRP’s new report, “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” documents an ongoing and worsening issue facing Uyghurs abroad, namely refusal to renew passports and denial of access to other documentation by the Chinese government. For several years, Uyghurs have been unable to renew their passports at Chinese embassies and […]