By Uighur American Association On the evening of March 6th, 2020 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted the public program China’s Systematic Persecution of Uighurs. Hundreds of Uighur Americans and others from the community listened to powerful speeches from Massachusetts Congressman, Co-Chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, […]
International Response
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.
Original Uighur By Tahir Imin Uighurian Tranlated: Fatimah Abdulghafur On January 10, 2020, Tunisian Coalition of Imams protested against the China’s oppression and genocide of Uighurs. The protest took place in front of the Chinese embassy in Tunis after the Friday prayer. The Imams from the Coalition demanded a stop […]
Uyghur Times Dec 29, 2019 Written and contributed to Uighur Times English by Fatimah Abdulghafur In response to China’s oppression and genocide of Uighurs and locking up more than 3 million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the concentration camps in Chinese occupied land of East Turkistan, more and more […]
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 […]
Sophie Richardson China Director Original source: Human Rights Watch Earlier this month, a dozen United Nations experts quietly issued an unprecedented and devastating assessment of the Chinese government’s counterterrorism law. Their critique highlights the way this law is being used to justify gross violations of basic rights and freedoms in Xinjiang, […]
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 […]
Today, on September 11, 2019, the US Senate passed the “Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019,” a bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez. The senators introduced the bill to condemn the gross human rights violations against ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang (also known as East […]
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 […]