The Uyghurs are an ethnic group primarily residing in Uyghurstan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwest China. Recognized by the Chinese government as the main ethnic group and the titular people of “Xinjiang,” the Uyghurs are native to the region and have a long history and […]
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A renowned scientific journal has retracted a paper based on DNA samples from nearly 38,000 men in China. The samples come from Uyghurs and Tibetans, who almost certainly did not give proper consent, the Intercept reports.
Previously unpublished documents that link the crackdown on Uyghurs in Xinjiang to the top Chinese leadership have been uploaded online, The Guardian reports.
Actress and human rights advocate, Mia Farrow, has used her Twitter platform to speak against the Uyghur genocide.
On Saturday 27th November at 1300 GMT, the Uyghur Tribunal will hold a third virtual hearing to introduce new evidence from expert witnesses Professor Ton Zwaan and Dr. Adrain Zenz, the Uyghur Tribunal website says.
The Uyghur Tribunal is an independent people’s court of justice launched in Great Britain in September 2020. It examines China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur people and evaluates whether the violations constitute genocide under the Genocide Convention. The tribunal began its first series of hearings in June 2021, and the second set in September 2021.
Anwer Ablimit, a renowned Uyghur musician, used to work for an oil extraction unit in Karamay. His nephew in exile lost contact with him in 2017. In 2019 he heard that Ablimit had been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Chinese government. The nephew does not know his whereabouts.
CHINA brands the World Uyghur Congress as a terror organization because the group organized a major conference in Prague last weekend.
On its website, the Chinese Embassy in Prague condemns the ‘anti-Chinese separatist activities’ of the World Uyghur Congress. The Embassy accuses The World Uyghur Congress of “fabricating slanders and lies about ‘Xinjiang'”.
A recent visitor to ‘Xinjiang’ (Uyghurland) has posted a 20-minute video of several detention facilities on YouTube, Nathan Ruser reports on Twitter. The visitor shows footage of eighteen different detention locations and one former facility.
Ms. Emma Reilly, a fired UN whistleblower, was recently interviewed by Maajid Nawaz on his UK-based LBC talk show.
In a shocking turn of events, the United Nations has this week fired Ms. Emma Reilly, an Irish human-rights-lawyer, and a whistleblower at UN Human Rights Commission. Her dismissal raises serious questions for the free world leaders.
In 2013 Ms. Reilly alerted her immediate supervisors at UNHRC that some officials had handed over to Beijing the names of Uyghur and Chinese dissidents planning to attend a meeting in Geneva. Dolkun Isa, the current President of the World Uyghur Congress, was among those that had their names handed over.