Uighur Times Tahir Imin Uighurian May 10, 2019 The police in the Uighur homeland (XUAR) started to ask residents to change their ethnic identity on the police record, according to an advertisement posted in a Wechat (a Chinese social media app) group called “Xinjiang group for lost people”. The post […]
Uighur Times 5/16/2019 The original letter (in Chinese) was posted online by Erkin Azat on May 12, 2019 (link). Also read more details about the Dabancheng camp from Shawn Zhang’s investigation. https://medium.com/@shawnwzhang/largest-re-education-camp-d7d6ce15e273 My name is Berik, I am a prison guard of the new Concentration Camp in […]
Salam, my name is — . In order to support the #metoouyghur movement, here I testify for my relatives who have been illegally detained by the Chinese government. Memet Emet (uncle) was born on February 10 1971 and he is from Group 1, Village 8, Saghan Township, Yingisar County Qeshqer Prefecture. He […]
By Uighur Times. March 12, 2019. Columbia Law School, NY Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 6:40pm to 8:40pm Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106 Speakers: Zubeyre Shemsidin, Project Director, Uyghur Human Rights Project; Darren Byler, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington; Tahir Imin, Founder of Uighur Institute and Uigher Times. […]
By Uighur Times Feb 16, 2019. Allentown, PA. On Feb 16, 2019, Tahir Imin, Uighur scholar and activist, founder of Uighur Institute and Uighur Times presented about how China is committing genocide on the Uighur population, while the world is watching. More than 500 people from the local faith […]
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 Malaysia won’t be silent on China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah told the South China Morning Post in an interview that Malaysia will continue to speak up on issues like China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims. “We understand the situation. We […]
Uighur Times April 20, 2019 Last month, Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that it will invite Beijing-based European Union diplomats to visit East Turkistan to investigate allegations of human rights violations against Uighur and other Turkic Muslims. However, the European Union rejected the invitation citing “such a visit requires careful preparation […]
Last week, Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur Service published a report on famous Uighur biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov’s alleged cooperation with Chinese companies on DNA research. The report drew a great decry and criticism against Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov among the Uighur diaspora. The East Turkistan Uyghur Intellectuals Forum, a forum of Uighur […]
Sunday, April 14, 2019 With Pressure and Persuasion, China Deflects Criticism of Its Camps for Muslims China has been fighting criticism that it has detained as many as one million members of Muslim ethnic minorities in indoctrination camps in its western Xinjiang region (occupied East Turkistan). But at […]
Uighur Times April 1, 2019 Chinese camp system evolving into “Xinjiang Archipelago”? For the Uighurs, an individual’s level of religious devotion and Chinese-language skills are factors determining the severity of punishment, a researcher says. China’s crackdown in Xinjiang province (occupied East Turkistan) has attracted increasing international […]