By Erkin Sidiq Aug 25, 2019 New Information about Uyghurs in East Turkestan—News Brief (8) 1_The Chinese government recently said that they have released most of the Uyghur Muslims detained in concentration camps. But according to the information we obtained directly from our homeland, they released 4 Uyghur female […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Uighur Times 6-21-2019 Tahir Imin Uighurian Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and it’s alley in Turkish Parliament Nationalist Movement Party MHP rejected a bill to investigate mass violations of Uighur human rights by Chinese authorities in the Uighur homeland. This news came after the official Facebook account of […]
Uighur Times 6-16-2019 According to Taiwan News, Dolkun Isa, the president of the World Uyghur Congress, was denied entry to Taiwan by President Tsai Ing-wen, who is from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). This was despite the fact that Dolkun Isa is the recipient of the 2019 Democracy […]
Uighur Times 6-7-2019 From June 6-7 2019, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in cooperation with the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), Uyghur American Association (UAA) and the Central Asia Program at George Washington University held a two-day international conference in Washington DC, Confronting Atrocities in China: The Global […]
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 […]
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 […]