After a 12-year pause in high-level visits from Ankara to Beijing, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan visited China this week. His visit includes stops in the Uyghur cities of Urumqi and Kashgar. This visit is significant because Turkey, as a country, has historical and cultural ties with the Uyghurs, hosts one […]
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“U.S. Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) of the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) has released four letters—three to U.S.-based tourism companies and one to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Carmakers, such as General Motors, Tesla, BYD, Toyota, and Volkswagen, are risking using Uyghur forced labor in their aluminum supply chains, Human Rights Watch reports.
Recently, the Chinese “Caixin Net” published a special report about a young man in the Uyghurs’ homeland, who, six years ago, fell into a coma and eventually died after being subjected to police torture during interrogation. The young man, Sun Renze, was reportedly a victim of inhumane treatment by the police, and the details of his ordeal were made public.
In a recent move, the Internet Information Office of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has intensified its efforts to address a series of online activities deemed illegal. The office highlighted specific incidents that it claims violated established policies. One incident, reported in November 2023, involved a netizen raising concerns about […]
Uyghur Times, December 18, 2023 According to a report from the Xinjiang Daily, the official mouthpiece of the regional government, the national supply and marketing cooperative system’s paired assistance to Xinjiang cooperation and production-sales docking meeting was held on the morning of December 18th in Urumqi. Zhang Zhu, Deputy Secretary […]
“Xinjiang” Leads in Production and Sowing, Propagates Chinese Media Headlines By Uyghur Erk, December 17, 2023 Xinjiang Daily, the major propaganda outlet of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where the Uyghurs refer to ET or Uyghurstan, reported that according to the statistics confirmed by the National Bureau of Statistics, the […]
Buddhism, one of the world’s oldest religions, has deep historical roots in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located in the western part of China.
US-sanctioned Chairman of the People’s Government of Xinjiang, Erken Tuniyaz, visited Hungary in early September, and the Hungarian government “forgot” to inform the Hungarian people about it, Tompos Márton shares on X.
In a newly released biography, Elon Musk, the CEO of social media platform X (former Twitter), argues that there are ‘two sides’ to China’s repression of the Uyghurs, according to a new book written by Walter Isaacson.