On 18 October 2018, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) and its member organisations the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC), in collaboration with the International Campaign for Tibet, organised a demonstration outside of the European Commission in Brussels.

Qurban Mamut’s son says his father was targeted because he is living in exile in the US.

The recent discovery that several prominent Uyghur scholars and writers have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment by the Chinese government is an outrageous abdication of the rule of law, and a clear demonstration of the government’s broad-scale attack on Uyghur intellectual life under the guise of preventing “separatism,” PEN America said today.