U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), with five other Republican senators, has sent a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Dev Jagadesan. They have inquired whether the (DFC) is inadvertently aiding the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) export of solar panels tainted with the forced labor of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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Turkish Government has left thousands of Uyghurs in administrative limbo by rejecting their citizenship, dozens of Uyghurs in Turkey told Uyghur Times. According to them, their Chinese passports have expired or are about to expire. Turkey has not been willing to grant them citizenship or documents that would allow them […]
Sept 22, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) extends its deep gratitude to the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. The bill is the first national legislation anywhere in the world enforcing human-rights standards to end the import […]
By Ilyaruq May 15, 2020 On Thursday, May 14, 2020, the United States Senate has unanimously approved the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020. The bill, originally introduced by Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez, would impose sanctions on Chinese officials over human rights abuses against Uyghur and other […]
by Diyora Pazilova My name is Diyora Pazilova. I came to Sweden on August 19, 2012 with my mother, Shamshinur Pazilova and have been studying since I started at Söderkullaskolan in fifth grade. In 2017 I started reading the nature program at Malmö Latin School, which is the best choice […]
March12,2020 By East Turkistan National Awakening Movement If you look in the Xinjiang Region, which is East Turkistan. East Turkistan is an area in that Asian area of China for over 100 years. When the Communist Party came in, they took it over, recently they renamed it to a name […]
Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act. A bill to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in ET (Xinjiang), and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China.
Lawmakers of the United States House of Representatives voted 407 to 1 to approve the Uyghur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act (Uighur Act or Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act) of 2019, which commands the US administration to identify and sanction officials deemed responsible for their involvement in the […]
Uighur Times On Oct 8, 2019, the U.S. Department of State announced that it is imposing visa restrictions on Chinese officials over repression of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in East Turkistan (AKA Xinjiang). This follows a move from the U.S government to blacklist 28 Chinese companies and entities […]
Recently, a news about deportation of a Uighur woman (Zinnetgul Tursun or ZINAITIGULI TUERSUN) and her two children went viral on Facebook among Uighurs overseas. According to her Turkish residence card, her residence number is 99377590054, and date of birth is Oct. 4, 1989. According to an audio by a […]