My name is Mamutjan Abdurehim. I am from Kashgar, Xinjiang, and currently reside in Australia.
Uyghur Genocide
My name is Marhaba Yakub Salay. I am a mother of two young kids and living with my husband in Adelaide, working for our family business with my elderly parents.
I used to be very passionate about becoming a writer when I was very young. That childhood dream faced some serious challenges as I grew older because I quickly noticed the deep injustices and maltreatments my people were facing in the majoritarian Chinese state.
What is it with the rubber gloves? They are grossly used for patronization. It is not some disease control, and Uyghurs are not spreading some ideological virus. Why would elderly Uyghur female detainees need a Han Chinese carer somehow adjust their position for a mugshot? How humiliating! Why would one need one’s hair tidied up for a jail mugshot?
Ahead of Michelle Bachelet’s (the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) visit to the Chinese-occupied Uyghuristan/ East Turkistan, Uyghur exiles have been tagging their social media posts with #VisitMyFamily. Some have gone as far as to give her their family home address in Uyghuristan.
Uyghurs in exile are demanding Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, release the long-due Uyghur Report, meet with victim families and allow them to meet with her before her planned trip to their occupied homeland. If she fails to act, she must resign.
Fahmida Azim, Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams, and Walt Hickey of the Insider, win the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for their comic on an Uyghur internment camp, Insider tweets.
Reyhan Ablet is a young Uyghur woman living in Japan. She advocates for her elder brother, Eysajan Ablet, 46, whom the Chinese authorities detained arbitrarily in 2017.
Ahmedjan Kasim, a young Uyghur activist in the Netherlands and now an author, has just published a new book titled “De Oeigoerse Droom” (The Uyghur Dream – My Fight against Chinese Oppression). The compelling story of the Uyghurs, as narrated by Kasim, has become palpable for Dutch readers. Kasim’s storytelling is commendable, Renze Klamer, a Dutch reporter, writes on the book’s back cover.
Despite the rainy weather in Geneva, former Uyghur and Kazakh detainees from Chinese concentration camps began a week-long protest outside the United Nations Human Rights Office in Geneva.