A prominent Uyghur journalist has actually been confirmed detained in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) after vanishing nearly three years earlier, according to an official in the local capital Urumqi. Qurban Mamut, the former editor-in-chief of the official Xinjiang Cultural Journal, went missing out on around November 2017, numerous months after he and […]

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Jewlan Shirmemet, a Uyghur who has actually resided in Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul considering that 2008, had actually remained quiet about politics till around 6 months earlier, when he started to speak up as part of a campaign to complimentary his mom, Suriye Tursun, from approximate detention back home in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area […]

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China’s federal government has actually ruined much of Kashgar’s Old City in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) exactly since of its cultural significance for Uyghurs, according to a brand-new report, which called the campaign secret to understanding how Beijing looks for to manage the ethnic group. In its brand-new report, entitled “Kashgar Coerced: Forced […]

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Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR) have actually revealed strategies to destroy a Uyghur cemetery in the capital Urumqi, marking the most recent of lots taken down in current years as part of a campaign professionals have actually stated is targeted at managing members of the ethnic group. On Might 22, a […]

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Gulshan Abbas, a Uyghur physician from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) who went missing after her Washington-based sister spoke up versus Beijing’s policies in the area, has actually been confirmed detained almost 2 years after her disappearance. The senior citizen, who previously operated at the Nurbagh Petroleum Medical Facility in the local capital […]

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The U.S. Congress passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 on Wednesday, marking the first legislation by any federal government to target China for its persecution of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Self-governing Area (XUAR), regardless of dangers of retaliation from Beijing. The passage comes as the U.S. House of Representatives voted 413 […]

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Chinese authorities are carefully seeing civil servant and students in Tibet’s local capital Lhasa throughout the Buddhist holy month of Legend Dawa, prohibiting them from taking part in standard religious events, according to sources in Tibet. Legend Dawa, which falls on the 4th month of the Tibetan lunar calendar and started this year on Might […]

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The U.S. State Department is dealing with increasing calls to pressure China to launch a Uyghur business owner who was sentenced to 15 years in jail after he went to Washington to participate in the firm’s International Visitor Management Program (IVLP). Ekpar Asat, a 34- year-old business person who developed an effective Uyghur social media […]

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Tibet’s India-based exile federal government and fans in the United States called on Beijing on Monday to free Tibet’s second- best-known spiritual leader the Panchen Lama, who vanished as a young young boy into Chinese custody on 25 years back on Might 17 and is thought to be suffering under house arrest in a concealed […]

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A Chinese state paper has actually launched a video in which a popular Uyghur historian who vanished in 2017 in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Area (XUAR) rejects reports that he had actually been apprehended, triggering his daughter to recommend the recording was made under pressure. Iminjan Seydin, 54, started teaching courses on Chinese history […]

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