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.
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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.
The US Congress has received a report on China’s horrific abuse of Uyghurs in their homeland, Bloomberg News reports.
Politically speaking, in the physical world, where there is pressure, one also finds resistance: The greater the pressure, the stronger the resistance against it.
In a colonial state setting, the colonialized subjects respond to the growing sense of pressure (from the colonialists) with sustainable resistance: Disobedience, peaceful protest, and national emancipation movements.
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.
May the 5th is celebrated as Doppa Day. But what is it and how did it all get started?
A young Uyghur activist, journalist, and former political prisoner, named Tahir Imin, started the Doppa Festival in 2009. This festival was first held in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (aka East Turkistan), the hometown of the young Uyghur activist.
A group of U.S. House lawmakers introduced a resolution on Tuesday, World Press Freedom Day, which named countries including China, Russia and Belarus as nations that committed “repressive and brutal actions” against journalists.
China is “one of the worst media environments in the world and seeks to curtail political speech inside and outside the country…,” stated the resolution, citing the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2021 findings.
In the days leading to the end of Ramadan, the Chinese Consulate in Turkey distributed Eid al-Fitr packages to Uyghurs living in Turkey, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.
Ilham Tohti Initiative, a German non-profit, co-hosted a six-hour international conference in Berlin last week to inform the media and politicians about the Chinese genocidal policy against the Uyghurs and other Turkic people. The panel included Sayragul Sauytbay, a former camp detainee, and Dr. Adrian Zenz, a researcher from the Victims of Communism.
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.