The Uighur economist Ilham Tohti, currently held in a Chinese prison, has just been awarded the 2019 Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament. Before he was arrested in 2014, Tohti was a leading Uighur intellectual best known for founding the website Uighur Online, a Chinese website dedicated to the mutual […]
#NeverAgain is happening again. This time the victims are the #Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in the occupied East Turkistan (aka Xinjiang, China). In fact, ‘Xinjiang’ literally means ‘New Colony’ in English. Nevertheless, the majority of Uyghurs never endorsed or advocated for independence for once an independent country #EastTurkistan. The vast majority of the […]
RFA Uyghur service telephone interview investigation reveals there were 150 people died in the No.1 camp, which is one of the four already know camps in the Kuchar (aka Kuqa) county in the Aksu prefecture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (aka East Turkistan). Previously it has also been reported […]
A new report from the UHRP and Bahram K. Sintash reveals new evidence about China’s horrendous crimes against the Uyghurs and other Muslim Turkic people in East Turkestan (aka Xinjiang, China). In the brutal campaign to eradicate the Uyghur identity, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has targeted the Uyghurs’ practice […]
By Tahir Imin Uighurian Translated by Fatimah Abdulghafur Seyyah 2019-10-18 No matter how bitter the news is, it’s the media’s responsibility to tell the truth. According to the labor transfer from East Turkistan (a.k.a. Xinjiang) to China’s inner provinces plan, between 2018 and 2019, more than 500,000 Uyghur youth, mostly […]
Original source: thehill.com Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims on Friday amid the NBA’s recent controversy regarding a team manager’s statements about the country on Friday. In an address to the American Association of Christian Counselors in Nashville, Tenn., Pompeo proclaimed that George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984”, was […]
By Fatimah Abdulghafur Many times we don’t suffer from the life’s tests but from the repeated sadness from the unhealed scars which those tests left on our souls. It’s essential to find remedy to recover from the scars, because like a pretty girl doesn’t want a small scar to […]
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 […]
Contributed to Uighur Times by Fatimah Seyyah Oct 1, 2019 70 years have passed since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. While the Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the 70 glorious years of journey and wishing well for another 70 to come, outside Mainland China, […]
Recently, someone posted an allegedly leaked document about how to deceive international society and strengthen confidentiality measures on concentration camps (i.e. the so-called vocational skills training centers) in the Uyghur region. This document was sent on Mar. 19, 2018, by the prefecture-level government of Kashgar prefecture to all agencies under its […]