Uighur Times 5-28-2019 Norwegian Uighur Community organized a mock funeral on May 26th in front of the Norwegian Parliament building in Oslo. This is the fourth time in a month that the Norwegian Uighur Community organizing such a peaceful demonstration in Oslo. However, it is the first time to […]
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Uighur Times 5-27-2019 World Uyghur Congress to Convene Global Conference on Uyghur Crisis in Washington D.C. From June 6-7 2019, the World Uyghur Congress in cooperation with the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), Uyghur American Association (UAA) and the Central Asia Program at George Washington University will hold a two-day […]
Friday, May 24, 2019 Chinese regime launches ethnic identity change policy in Uighur homeland The police in the Uighur homeland (XUAR) started to ask residents to change their ethnic identity on the police record, according to an advertisement posted in a Wechat (a Chinese social media app) group called […]
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Malaysia won’t be silent on China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah told the South China Morning Post in an interview that Malaysia will continue to speak up on issues like China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims. “We understand the situation. We […]
Sunday, April 14, 2019 With Pressure and Persuasion, China Deflects Criticism of Its Camps for Muslims China has been fighting criticism that it has detained as many as one million members of Muslim ethnic minorities in indoctrination camps in its western Xinjiang region (occupied East Turkistan). But at […]
Uighur Times April 1, 2019 Chinese camp system evolving into “Xinjiang Archipelago”? For the Uighurs, an individual’s level of religious devotion and Chinese-language skills are factors determining the severity of punishment, a researcher says. China’s crackdown in Xinjiang province (occupied East Turkistan) has attracted increasing international […]
Monday, April 1, 2019 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on China to ‘release all arbitrarily detained’ On March 27, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Uighur, Kazakh, and other minority group survivors and family members of China’s campaign of repression at the US Department of […]
Saturday, March 23, 2019 New Zealand Mosque Shooter’s Manifesto Apparently Posted Online, Admires Communist China Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of shooting 49 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, wrote on his manifesto: “The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People’s Republic of […]
Saturday, March 16, 2019 Yale geneticist provided data used for Chinese surveillance of Uighurs School of Medicine emeritus professor Kenneth Kidd shared genetic data with scientists from China’s Ministry of Public Security, the data then has been used to profile and oppress the Uighurs in the occupied East Turkistan. […]
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Turkey urges China to respect the human rights of Uighurs Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council’s annual session, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu voiced his government’s concern over the human rights violations of the Uighur and other Turkic Muslims in East Turkistan. He called on […]