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East Turkestan: Uyghurs Hold Demonstration in Brussels
27.June 2008
 On 25 June 2008 about 150 Uyghurs from various EU countries led by their charismatic leader Rebiya Kadeer gathered with other supporters for a demonstration organized by the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) in the European district in Brussels from 12:00 to 2:00 PM to protest China’s repressive policy against their 9 million strong ethnic group.
Famous Uyghur human rights defender Rebiya Kadeer was imprisoned by the Chinese government from 1999 to 2005 because of her activities for civil liberties in China. She was then adopted as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. Since her release she has continued her fight from the diaspora in the United States. During the rally, she addressed a strong message to the demonstrators, encouraging them to fight together with her for human rights, the rule of law and democracy in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, called East Turkestan by the Uyghurs.
 Willy Fautré, the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), congratulated them for their commitment to the cause of the 9 million Uyghurs living in China and said, “Beijing tried to silence you but it never managed to silence your voices and you have shown to the Chinese here in Brussels that they will never manage to silence you.”
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