Uighur Times 6-3-2019 Uighur activist Rushan Abbas in Vienna and Prague The U.S. Embassies in Vienna and Prague invited Rushan Abbas, the director of Campaign for Uyghurs, to raise awareness for the current Uyghur crisis in these countries. Ms. Abbas spoke about the dire situation of Uighurs in East Turkistan […]
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Uighur Times 6-1-2019 Once a year, the PEN International’s Writers In Prison Committee produces a case list (covering the previous year) of individuals around the world who are detained or otherwise persecuted for their peaceful political activities or for the practice of their profession. This year’s Case List (pages […]
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 […]
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Original news link: https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/5/senate-foreign-relations-committee-passes-rubio-menendez-uyghur-human-rights-bill?fbclid=IwAR04JnWX4v8xX5ViXKNIcDS7KuQO_09TblaIXhUZ5xBzVYrUxoKEdfklYYs Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) today released the following statements after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee marked up their bipartisan Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act: “It is long overdue to hold Chinese government and Communist Party officials […]
By Uighur Times. March 12, 2019. Columbia Law School, NY Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 6:40pm to 8:40pm Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106 Speakers: Zubeyre Shemsidin, Project Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project; Darren Byler, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington; Tahir Imin, Founder of Uighur Institute and Uigher Times. […]
By Uighur Times Feb 16, 2019. Allentown, PA. On Feb 16, 2019, Tahir Imin, Uighur scholar and activist, founder of Uighur Institute and Uighur Times presented about how China is committing genocide on the Uighur population, while the world is watching. More than 500 people from the local faith […]
Last week, Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service published a report on famous Uighur biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov’s alleged cooperation with Chinese companies on DNA research. The report drew a great decry and criticism against Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov among the Uighur diaspora. The East Turkistan Uyghur Intellectuals Forum, a forum of Uighur […]
Uighur Times Feb.9, 2019 On Saturday, February 9th, the Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning the Chinese government’s brutal human rights violations in the Uighur region. The statement came as a response to the journalists’ questions regarding the human rights violations against Uighurs. In the statement, Hami Aksoy, the […]
By Tahir Imin Uighurian A rally of multi-faith groups aiming to encourage the US Department of State to address the oppression of the Uighurs was held by Uyghur Rally Group in New York City on Tuesday, February 5th. This event was organized as a response to the unjust imprisonment […]