RFA, 4 August 2020
Below is an article published by RFA, Photo AFP.
Authorities in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have established a special, restricted-access “residential area” to relocate Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities released from internment camps, according to local officials.
Read More →CNN, 31 July 2020
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(CNN)Zumrat Dawut said she was forcibly sterilized by the Chinese government for having one too many children.
A former resident of Urumqi, the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, the 38-year-old Uyghur woman said she was fined 18,400 yuan ($2,600) in 2018 for having three children, one more than she was allowed to under Chinese rule.
Read More →Press Release– For immediate release
30 July 2020
Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org
+49 89 5432 1999 or [email protected]
The WUC calls on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reconsider allowing China to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and to urgently address concerns raised by the WUC and other parties, given that the Chinese government is actively committing genocide, crimes against humanity, torture and other atrocities against Uyghurs. This decision is in contravention of the values and principles articulated in the Olympic Charter and to the spirit of the Olympics games.
The Vox, 28 July 2020
Below is an article published by The Vox, Photo David Liu/Getty Images
Jewher Ilham has not heard from her father since 2017.
Her dad, Ilham Tohti, is an economics professor and prominent Uighur intellectual in Xinjiang, China. He ran a website, UighurOnline, that focused on issues pertaining to the Muslim ethnic minority group.
Read More →Press Release– For immediate release
28 July 2020
Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org
+49 89 5432 1999 or [email protected]
On the sixth anniversary of the Yarkand massacre, the World Uyghur Congress remembers all those who were killed by Chinese authorities. It has been six years since Chinese security forces violently suppressed a large peaceful protest in Yarkand, leading to the deaths of many innocent Uyghurs. Since then, we have witnessed an escalation in discriminatory state policies that have led to the an estimated one million Uyghurs arbitrarily detained in political indoctrination camps, mass sterilization, forced labour and genocide.
Read More →World Uyghur Congress, 10 July 2020
UK Banned Huawei from its 5G Network
This week the British government decided that telecom networks are not allowed to buy new Huawei 5G equipment and all Huawei gear should be stripped out of the mobile networks by 2027. Moreover, BT’s Openreach and other broadband infrastructure providers should stop the use of Huawei products.
The World Uyghur Congress has released its newsletter covering the month of June concerning our activities as well as the most prevalent issues concerning the Uyghur community in East Turkistan and elsewhere.The newsletter looks at a number of developing stories coming out of the region and updates on the activities of the World Uyghur Congress, including:
Read More →Washington Post, 11 July 2020
Below is an article published by Washington Post, Photo Ng Han Guan/AP
It was 11 years ago that Gulruy Asqer began praying for a chance to escape China.
Asqer, a Uighur poet now living in Memphis, was back then living in Urumqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang region of China that is home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.
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