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 […]
Governments
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 […]
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 6-7-2019 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]