by Uyghur Times Staff The White House announced on Monday that the Biden administration will not be sending any diplomatic representation or officials to the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing. The decision comes in light of China’s severe human rights abuses and atrocities including genocide and crimes […]
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The Senate has blocked the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
In a shocking turn of events, the United Nations has this week fired Ms. Reilly, an Irish human-rights-lawyer, and a whistleblower at UN Human Rights Commission. Her dismissal raises serious questions for the free world leaders. In 2013 Ms. Reilly alerted her immediate supervisors at UNHRC that some officials had […]
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.
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 […]
Nasdaq-listed video streaming site Bilibili and language studying app Talkmate seem to have taken down Uyghur and Tibetan languages from their platforms. According to a senior analyst at ASPI ( Australian Strategic Policy Institute) Biblibili site gives an error message saying “评论内容包含敏感信息” (Comment content contains sensitive information) when the user attempts to insert Uyghur or Tibetan […]
Christianity Today reported that During the recent Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in Nashville, while internal disputes took center stage, a significant resolution addressing the plight of Uyghur Muslims in China went overlooked by many commentators. Southern Baptists, aligning with Pope Francis, not only highlighted the abuses suffered by Uyghurs but […]
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 […]
Sept 19, 2020 The Chinese authorities announced that they accepted European diplomats’ demand to visit the Uyghur region. But in its statement, the Chinese government made it clear that this investigation would not be independent by stating that it will not listen to Europe’s human rights lectures,” and would not […]
August 13, 2020 By World Uyghur Congress Press Release– For immediate release13 August 2020Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org+49 89 5432 1999 orcontact@uyghurcongress.org The World Uyghur Congress has instructed international human rights barrister Michael Polak of Church Court Chambers and head of Lawyers for Uyghur Rights to draft a formal written complaint […]