(7/12/19, Chicago, IL) — An interfaith coalition of religious and spiritual leaders has condemned today’s joint statement of 37 countries, including Russia and Saudi Arabia, supporting Chinese policies in Xinjiang (East Turkistan). The letter, which comes on the heels of an earlier letter delivered at the UN on Wednesday that […]
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Uighur Times, on behalf of the Uighur people, would like to express our utmost gratitude to the 22 UN member states which signed the joint statement to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to call on China to stop the mass incarceration of Uighurs, respect the rights of […]
Honorable President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The recent news reports about your comments on the Uyghur situation after your official visit to China have deeply hurt us, the overseas Uyghur community around the world. That is not because of the false reports about our situation, but because these reports do […]
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 6-7-2019 While Muslims around the world are celebrating the end of Ramadan with prayers and joys this week, Uighurs overseas are celebrating it heavy-heartedly and with forced smiles as they are separated from their loved ones – some are missing, while others are known to be in China’s […]
Uighur Times 6-1-2019 Nury Turkel, a U.S.-based Uighur Rights advocate and attorney in Washington D.C., gave a touching speech at the 2019 Oslo Freedom Forum. Turkel, born himself in a prison camp in East Turkestan during the Cultural Revolution, spoke at the Forum about the horrific oppression carried out by […]
Salam, my name is — . In order to support the #metoouyghur movement, here I testify for my relatives who have been illegally detained by the Chinese government. Memet Emet (uncle) was born on February 10 1971 and he is from Group 1, Village 8, Saghan Township, Yingisar County Qeshqer Prefecture. He […]
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, […]
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 […]