Updating… Why should you care? More than 3 million Uyghur Muslims are detained in concentration camps in East Turkistan (a.k.a. Xinjiang, China) where they suffer torture and forced to renounce their Islamic faith. Quran and other Islamic books have been burned, and thousands of Mosques have been […]
24 October 2018 AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF EAST TURKISTAN The current situation in East Turkistan is deteriorating day by day. Millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic-speaking peoples of East Turkistan have been incarcerated in concentration camps since 2017. There are credible reports of innocent Uyghurs being brainwashed, tortured, […]
ABDELILLAH BENDAOUDI 17 OCTOBER 2018 On October 7, 2018, The Uyghur Entrepreneurs Network (UEN) in Virginia hosted a conference entitled “Forgotten Nation of Islamic World – Uyghur Muslims”. The conference was part of an awareness campaign at the Uyghur community Center in Fairfax to educate the public about the ongoing human […]
By Tahir Imin Uighurian Oct 20, 2018, 14:05 pm Time Magazine named Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who directs the OHSU Center for Embryonic Cell and Gene Therapy, as one of the 50 most influential people in health care for 2018. Time ,an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New […]
Thank you, Indiana University, Professor Bovington, Professor Marianna Kamp, senior lecturer Gulnisa Nazarova, and graduate student Mustafa Aksu for putting together this panel. To the faculty, staff, and students of the University, and members of the IU community—I offer my sincere appreciation for this opportunity to shed light on the […]
Ant-China protesters rallied in New York UN headquarter By Uighur Times, SEP.18,2018, New York More than 500 people rallied protesting Chinese oppression of Uighurs and other ethnic groups, in front of UN headquarters in New York, September 18. The protesters from other anti-china groups such as Tibetans, Kazaks, Taiwanese, Hong […]
by Batur Karahanli 13th October 2018, Istanbul, Turkey Dear Honorable Senator Marco Antonio Rubio, Your recent announcement of recommending an Uyghur economic Professor, Ilham Tohti, for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 brought hope to the entire Uyghur community in diaspora. As an Uyghur intellectual, I keep a close eye […]
Every Friday Muslim migrant men fill the streets surrounding the mosque in the Ürümchi neighborhood of Black First Mountain (Heijia Shan)
Published on August 19, 2014 comments 3 The Uyghur Rock Star Perhat on the Voice of China written by Darren Byler (雷风) It has been two weeks since the Uyghur rock star Perhat Khaliq took on The Voice of China. The Uyghur Internet is still buzzing about the way he delivered his songs of loss […]
While many people were watching and discussing the racial politics behind the use of black-face in a Chinese portrayal of African women during this year’s Chinese New Year gala, across Chinese Central Asia Uyghur women and children were performing another kind of ethno-racial erasure. Unlike in years past, this year Uyghurs were […]