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May the 5th is celebrated as Doppa Day. But what is it and how did it all get started?
A young Uyghur activist, journalist, and former political prisoner, named Tahir Imin, started the Doppa Festival in 2009. This festival was first held in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (aka East Turkistan), the hometown of the young Uyghur activist.
Le Monde, a leading French newspaper, published an editorial titled “The persecution of my people”. Rufina, a 16-year-old Uyghur girl from Uyghuristan/East Turkistan, tells about the Chinese oppression of Uyghurs in their homeland, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.
Language is a God-given gift to every nation, which we often take for granted. In the west, a person can exercise freedom of speech without the fear of being detained for one’s words.
Uyghurs, a Turkic people living in Uyghuristan (East Turkistan), are not enjoying these rights. It is practically forbidden for them to use their mother tongue publically or display Uyghur language signs in their occupied homeland.
The US Uyghur Mother Tongue School in Fairfax, Virginia, hosted a ‘Mother Tongue Day’ event attended by the parents of the Uyghur students and many regular Americans learning Uyghur.
By Aqil Abdullah Jan 24, 2021 The China-Turkey extradition treaty, signed in 2017, was ratified by the National People’s Congress of China at the end of last year. It raised great concern among the Uyghur diaspora and other Uyghur rights supporters. if the treaty is adopted by Ankara it would […]
By Ilyaruq Nov 4, 2020 A Uyghur man who has been previously forced to spy on Uyghurs in Turkey was shot and heavily wounded in Istanbul on Monday, November 2. The man, Yusufujiang Aimaitijiang, was wounded in the arm and shoulder when a stranger shot him from behind on Monday […]
By Illyaruq Oct 21, 2020 The persecution and genocidal policies the Chinese authorities have been committing against the Uyghurs have forced many Uyghurs to flee from China and settle in other countries. The aspiration of the Uyghurs to live in free nations has especially risen after the Urumqi Massacre on […]
September 23, 2020 By Uyghur Help Association Project Manager: Abduweli Ayup From December 2019 to May 2020, the Uyghur Hjelp Association in Norway conducted a survey on the victims of relatives and friends of Uyghurs mainly living in Istanbul, Turkey. A total of 8 team members from Turkey and the […]
May 12, 2020 By Uighur Times The outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in Wuhan and its quick spread around the world becoming a global pandemic has forced millions of people out of employment and caused economies of many countries to shut down or standstill. This has particularly hit those who […]
UHRP’s new report, “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” documents an ongoing and worsening issue facing Uyghurs abroad, namely refusal to renew passports and denial of access to other documentation by the Chinese government. For several years, Uyghurs have been unable to renew their passports at Chinese embassies and […]
