Original news link: https://bitterwinter.org/a-sad-world-refuge-day-for-uyghurs-in-thailand/ June 20 is the World Refugee Day. It is a day of hope and new life for many refugees throughout the world. But not for the Uighur refugees who escaped from China and sought asylum in Thailand. Despite international protests, Thailand has continued to keep Uighur […]
Uighur Times 6-21-2019 Tahir Imin Uighurian Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and it’s alley in Turkish Parliament Nationalist Movement Party MHP rejected a bill to investigate mass violations of Uighur human rights by Chinese authorities in the Uighur homeland. This news came after the official Facebook account of […]
Uighur Times 6-21-2019 Tahir Imin Uighurian Before heading to Qatar for the seventh round of the Taliban-US peace talks, the Afghan Taliban negotiators first came to China and exchanged views with Chinese officials on the Afghan peace reconciliation process and the fight against terrorism, confirmed by the ministry of […]
Uighur Times 6-16-2019 According to Taiwan News, Dolkun Isa, the president of the World Uyghur Congress, was denied entry to Taiwan by President Tsai Ing-wen, who is from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). This was despite the fact that Dolkun Isa is the recipient of the 2019 Democracy […]
Uighur Times 6-16-2019 ‘Deep concerns’ over UN official’s trip to China’s Xinjiang Vladimir Voronkov, a veteran Russian diplomat who heads the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), is currently in China at the invitation of Beijing and is due to visit East Turkistan’s capital Urumqi. The United States and other […]
Uighur Times 6-12-2019 According to Abduwali Ayup, a Uighur investigation journalist, Uighurs are deeply saddened by the news of losing one of their beloved writers to the Chinese Communist regime’s concentration camps. On June 3, 2019, the family of Numuhammed Tohti received his corpse, the body of the conscious […]
Uighur Times 6-9-2019 Chinese regime’s defense minister defending Tiananmen square massacre and concentration camps in occupied East Turkistan Asia’s premier defense summit, the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, took place from May 31 to June 2 in Singapore. On the last day of the summit, Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe […]
Remarks by David J. Ranz, June 6. 2019 Original news link: https://www.state.gov/confronting-atrocities-in-china-the-global-response-to-the-uyghur-crisis/ As prepared Good morning, salam alaikum, and “Yahshimusiz”. My name is David Ranz and I am the acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, within the Bureau of South and Central Asia Affairs (SCA). On behalf […]
Remarks by Carl Gershman, June 6. 2019 Original news link: https://www.ned.org/confronting-atrocities-in-china-the-global-response-to-the-uyghur-crisis/ I want to congratulate Dolkun Isa and the World Uyghur Congress – and also the Uyghur Human Rights Project, the Uyghur American Association, and the George Washington University Central Asia Program for taking the initiative to organize this important […]
Uighur Times 6-7-2019 From June 6-7 2019, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in cooperation with the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), Uyghur American Association (UAA) and the Central Asia Program at George Washington University held a two-day international conference in Washington DC, Confronting Atrocities in China: The Global […]