Despite the rainy weather in Geneva, former Uyghur and Kazakh detainees from Chinese concentration camps began a week-long protest outside the United Nations Human Rights Office in Geneva.
The World Uyghur Congress joins Tibet, Hong Kong, Chinese and international NGOs to table a set of demands to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet ahead of her visit to China.
On April 19, Representatives of Uyghur organizations in the Netherlands met with Dutch Foreign Ministry official Mr. Lawrence and the country’s human rights ambassador, Ms. Bahia Tahzib, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.
“What if it happened to you” is a campaign devoted to helping to end the Uyghur genocide happening under the Chinese communist regime. The organizers promote human rights, freedom, and justice for the Uyghur people. Their goal is to educate people about the oppression and genocide of the Uyghur people.
Ordinary Japanese have taken to the streets to join Uyghurs in their protests against the Uyghur genocide. The Manga-style testimony booklets created by Shimizu Tomomi about Uyghur victims of Chinese concentration camps have become powerful tools in spreading awareness about the atrocities committed by China.
Chinese netizens started using various hashtags to circumvent content censorship over Shanghai’s lockdown policy. As the creative resistance deepened, Weibo soon banned the first line of the Chinese national anthem #起来不愿做奴隶的人们 , China Digital Times (CDT/Chinese) tweets.
The online information war between China and the West is not only taking place in Chinese or English but has found its way to Spanish-speaking social media in Latin America, too.
‘Today, on April 15, 2022, I called my parents at 10:10 am, Kashgar time. We talked for 42 seconds. The call was abruptly cut off before my mother had the chance to speak. I had been worried about her health,’ Tahir Mutällip Qahiri tweets.
Victims of Communism hosted a press conference at the Willard Hotel Washington, DC, to hear the testimony of Ovalbek Turdakun, a Kyrgyz Christian from East Turkistan (Uyghuristan) who had experienced detainment in a Chinese concentration camp.
The Great Translation Movement only opened its Twitter account in March 2022 but has already managed to gain a hefty 116,400 followers! They have assembled ‘Mandarin to English’ translations of Chinese social media posts under one hashtag: #TheGreatTranslationMovement.