May 12, 2020 By Uighur Times The outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in Wuhan and its quick spread around the world becoming a global pandemic has forced millions of people out of employment and caused economies of many countries to shut down or standstill. This has particularly hit those who […]
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Written by Maryam for the Uighur Language Service of Uighur Times. This news was published on the Uighur Times Uighur language website on Apr 23, 2020. Translated into English by Uighur Times English Channel According to information acquired by Uighur Times from Chinese social media platforms, TikTok and Wechat on […]
April 22, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project On Earth Day, UHRP highlights the connection between state oppression of Uyghurs and environmental degradation in East Turkistan. The Chinese government has increased the extraction of East Turkistan’s natural resources, such as minerals and foil fuels, and has massively expanded intensive agriculture […]
April 7, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project The Chinese government should play no role in the selection process of United Nations experts tasked with investigating human rights abuses, while at the same time refusing to accept their legitimacy. The Chinese government’s track record of obstructing UN human rights mechanisms […]
UHRP’s new report, “Weaponized Passports: The Crisis of Uyghur Statelessness,” documents an ongoing and worsening issue facing Uyghurs abroad, namely refusal to renew passports and denial of access to other documentation by the Chinese government. For several years, Uyghurs have been unable to renew their passports at Chinese embassies and […]
March 24, 2020 By Yiltiz Today I received a letter from an avid listener. It read: “You are a veteran journalist who has spoken with officials in China who rarely accept interviews from independent journalists; could you interview the Wuhan Virus and ask what or who it is and what […]
by Diyora Pazilova My name is Diyora Pazilova. I came to Sweden on August 19, 2012 with my mother, Shamshinur Pazilova and have been studying since I started at Söderkullaskolan in fifth grade. In 2017 I started reading the nature program at Malmö Latin School, which is the best choice […]
March 11, 2020 We, a coalition of six human rights organizations, write to express our serious concerns regarding investments held by the Government Pension Fund of Norway (also known as the “Oil Fund”), in Chinese technology companies Hikvision Digital Technology and Zhejiang Dahua Technology, both of which are directly implicated […]
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 […]