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 […]
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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 […]
Jan.15, 2019 Today marks the fifth anniversary of the arrest of Ilham Tohti, an Uighur scholar, economist, writer, professor, and a freedom fighter. Chinese regime arrested Prof. Ilham Tohti on January 15th, 2014 and sentenced him to life in prison later that year. Ilham Tohti is a freedom fighter who […]
On behalf of more than 3 million Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz brothers and sisters who are languishing in the concentration camps in East Turkestan, and their family members who can’t even talk about their loved ones, I thank Indonesian people who demonstrated against the Chinese concentration camps on […]
December 10, 2018 Honorable President Donald Trump, Nearly a month ago a bipartisan legislation, “Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2018”, was submitted by Senators Marco Rubio, Chris Smith, and other members of Congress. This legislation was aimed at condemning the Chinese officials responsible for pervasive human rights violations of […]
Mamtimin Ala Dec. 10, 2018 The desperate, timeless and rallying outcry of Never Again is still as relevant today as it was in 1948, when the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was created with the purpose of preventing further genocides after […]