Victims of Communism hosted a press conference at the Willard Hotel Washington, DC, to hear the testimony of Ovalbek Turdakun, a Kyrgyz Christian from East Turkistan (Uyghuristan) who had experienced detainment in a Chinese concentration camp.
Human Rights
Newly Leaked List Includes 7 Prisoners Who Studied Under Ilham Tohti
By Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The Chinese government should immediately release all remaining imprisoned students of the Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, Human Rights Watch said today. A government list of prisoners leaked in December 2021 indicates that six of the seven students on the list were sentenced in December 2014 to between three-and-a-half and eight years in prison. Although they would have completed their sentences, it is unclear whether they have been released.
One can ask questions about the mass walkout by the Chinese students at Cornell University on March 10 during a question-and-answer session of a seminar.
Why did Chinese students show zero tolerance for one question regarding the Uyghur cause?
Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and ‘Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs’ have published a new report. It is titled “Beyond Silence Collaboration: Between the Arab States and China in the Transnational Repression of Uyghurs”.
“What is genocide?” According to Zhao Li Jian, the Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, “the U.S. policy toward Native Americans is the ‘real’ genocide.”
By Anne Kader Around fifty Uyghurs participated in carrying the Olympic torch in Beijing in 2008. One of them was Abduqeyum Semet (阿不都克尤木.赛买提), Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, writes on his Twitter. Semet, an Uyghur born in June 1962, was a graduate of Xinjiang Medical University. He later practiced as a […]
How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs
by Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times
June 23, 2021, 5 a.m. EDT
Turkish ski jumper Fatih Arda Ipçioğlu was cheered on Saturday for displaying what many Uyghurs say was the flag of East Turkistan on his skis.
Today, on February 5th, another painful commemoration takes place for Uyghurs. The Ghulja Massacre took place 25 years ago when the Chinese government terrorized the Uyghur people in one of the most bloody crackdowns in recent history.
Two House lawmakers are jointly nominating the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Campaign for Uyghurs to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on the Uyghur genocide committed by the Chinese government, New Your Post reports.