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 […]
Uyghurs In Western Media
Uyghur In Western Media
Xinjiang’s Uyghurs didn’t choose to be Muslim, new Chinese report says In a white paper released on July 21, the Chinese State Council Information Office painted Xinjiang as a religiously diverse community where a number of faiths had co-existed for centuries. The 6,800-word document, released in full by state […]
Tuesday, July 9, 2019 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says extradition bill ‘dead’ Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said her administration’s bill to allow people to be sent to the Chinese mainland for trial was “dead” following a series of mass protests, but she stopped short of completely […]
Uighur Times 6-16-2019 ‘Deep concerns’ over UN official’s trip to China’s Xinjiang Vladimir Voronkov, a veteran Russian diplomat who heads the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), is currently in China at the invitation of Beijing and is due to visit East Turkistan’s capital Urumqi. The United States and other […]
The great leaders of the People’s Republic of China (from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping) look over all those that walk through a local bazaar in Southern Xinjiang. (Image by Eleanor Moseman) A version of this interview first appeared in the online journal Voices on Central Asia in English and the Central Asian Analytic […]
Uyghur Muslims: Victims of the World’s Largest Ethnic Cleansing. (Pic via Radio Free Asia) Published by CJ Werleman Independent, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project that seeks to expose and end Western injustices against Muslims. Please SUPPORT his fight against injustice by clicking here. China is carrying out a systematic campaign to […]
UPDATED at 5:10 P.M. EST on 2018-1-12 Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang region have arrested a prominent Uyghur intellectual for exhibiting “nationalistic tendencies,” according to a source in exile, amid an intensifying crackdown on notable members of the ethnic group. Halmurat Ghopur, president of the Xinjiang Food and Drug Administration’s […]
A security officer holding a shield and baton guards a security post leading into a center believed to be used for re-education in Korla, Nov. 2, 2017. AP Photo Political re-education camps in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, face such severe overcrowding that authorities have […]