The Canadian Parliament voted on the bill to grant asylum to Uyghurs and other Turkic groups persecuted by the Chinese regime. The bill received 258 votes in favor and 0 votes against it.
Uyghurs
Tahir Imin: I remember the 2012 Uyghur public opinion poll – the first ever conducted in Urumqi, in collaboration with “Baghdash Network” and “Öz Türk” company.
“Economic, strategic, and ethnic reasons are behind the policy of the Chinese government.”
Asgar Can, during the opening speech of breaking the fast, “Iftar”, hosted by the East Turkestan Union/ Uyghur Community, April 18, 2022
Uyghur religious scholar Aziz Hajim passes away at 102 in Urumqi
Oct 14, 2022
Aziz Hajim, an Uyghur religious scholar, public figure, and the person in charge of the Urumqi Khantangri mosque reconstruction, passed away in Urumqi on Friday, October 7, at the age of 102, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.
On August 25th, 2022, Saudi police arrested an Uyghur named Aziz at the Riad airport upon his arrival from Turkey. Because he does not have relatives abroad to ask for help, the information about his detention did not reach the public.
Mrs. Qalbinur Siddique and Mrs. Gulbahar Haitiwaji, survivors of Chinese camps, visited the Czech Republic to testify about their detainment.
On Friday, September 30, 2022, as part of a meeting organized by the Society for Threatened Peoples, the Payot bookstore in Geneva welcomed two women survivors of Chinese concentration camps.
I am a firm believer in justice. Today, I have to fill the role of a mother and father with my 5-year-old daughter while living in Virginia, the US, where I work as a nurse.
Rebiya Kadeer, the spiritual mother of the Uyghur people, issues a statement about the UN Human Rights Council’s failure to debate China’s treatment of Uyghurs. Here is the full text of her statement:
China celebrated a victory in the United Nations and thanked Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and other countries for their support against the Uyghur motion in the UN Human Rights Council.