Lawmakers of the United States House of Representatives voted 407 to 1 to approve the Uyghur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act (Uighur Act or Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act) of 2019, which commands the US administration to identify and sanction officials deemed responsible for their involvement in the […]
Xi-Chen Plan on the Eradication of 75% Uyghur Population In East Turkestan—Exact Translation of Some Important Information Obtained by a Mongol Student in Uyghur Homeland Translated by Torchlight Uyghur Group November 26, 2019 I am a young Mongol man studying for my post-graduate degree in Europe. I attended my Uyghur […]
Uighur Times Nov 25, 2019 The New York Times report on the more than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents created a new wave of attention to the Uighur crisis worldwide. Most importantly, the documents revealed new details on the origins of the Concentration Camps, i.e. how the demands […]
– Thank you so much for this award and especially for creating the Magnitsky Act to hold human rights violators accountable. – By focusing on the human rights abuses perpetrated by an authoritarian state against one man, Sergey Magnitsky, you have made it possible to seek and achieve a […]
A festivity of commemorating the establishment of independent East Turkestan Republic in 1933 and 1944 was organized by activist Abdurehim Gheni at Amsterdam Dam Square on 16th November 2019. The festivity started with a speech in Uyghur and Dutch language given by Abdurehim Gheni, organizer of this event and an […]
Sophie Richardson China Director Original source: Human Rights Watch Earlier this month, a dozen United Nations experts quietly issued an unprecedented and devastating assessment of the Chinese government’s counterterrorism law. Their critique highlights the way this law is being used to justify gross violations of basic rights and freedoms in Xinjiang, […]
Translated by Torchlight Uyghur Group November 14, 2019 In an Elementary Accounting class at the Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics, a Han Chinese lecturer spoke the following to his students just before he started his lecture. The following is the original audio file spoken in Chinese. [quote]Following is the […]
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 […]