Taiwan Sentinel chief editor J. Michael Cole sat down on the sidelines of the event with Nury Turkel, Rushan Abbas and Timothy Grose to discuss the current plight of Uyghurs, who face severe repression at the hands of the People’s Republic of China.
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Uyghur Detainees from Xinjiang ‘Placed in Nearly Every Prison’ in Shandong Province
March 19, 2019
Officials say the number of detainees transferred is ‘many,’ but can’t provide an estimate.
‘Practicing Islam is practically forbidden’: How Sweden granted refugee status to all Uighurs from Xinjiang, China
March 19, 2019
Last September, Abdakir, his wife and two children feared for their lives. The Uighur family had been denied asylum by the Swedish Migration Board, as well as in the Migration Court, after having appealed the original decision.
Millions of Muslims face Orwellian hell in China – Alistair Carmichael MP
March 19, 2019
The UK cannot just ignore allegations of forced organ harvesting and appalling human rights abuses of the Muslim Uyghur minority group in China, says Alistair Carmichael MP.
Australian family’s fear for famous Uighur father-in-law missing in China
March 19, 2019
Comedian Adil Mijit has not contacted anyone since November last year – and his family fears for the worst.
The New Zealand shooter finds support in Islamophobic corners of China’s internet
March 19, 2019
Brenton Tarrant, the 28-year-old Australian gunman who carried out the deadly mosque shooting in New Zealand on Friday (March 15), said in his screed that “the nation with the closest political and social values” to his own is China, and that he admired “non-diverse” nations.
Deafening silence in Asia on China's mass detention of Uighur Muslims
March 19, 2019
Indonesian President Joko Widodo is seeking re-election next month in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country and, as the FT points out, “presenting himself as defender of the faith is central to his campaign strategy.”
What’s Really Happening to Uighurs in Xinjiang?
March 19, 2019
China may have interned more than a million Uighurs in Xinjiang in an attempt to suppress their desire for greater autonomy.
Is Chinese media using the New Zealand mosque shooting as a political opportunity?
March 19, 2019
Beijing's censorship apparatus is so efficient that sensitive content is typically taken off social media within minutes, however netizens were still watching and uploading the livestream of the Christchurch shooting on Chinese social media almost 48 hours after the incident.
The Price of Friendship with China
March 19, 2019
Muslim countries seem happy to throw Ummah solidarity to the wind in their efforts to cozy up to China.
Relatives Overseas Search for Missing Kazakhs in Xinjiang
March 19, 2019
Kazakh Muslims and Christians are being arrested and detained in transformation through education camps, alongside Uyghur Muslims. Inquiries from abroad bring more persecution.
Feb 4, 2019
Twenty-two years later the unlawful killing of Uyghur demonstrators in Ghulja remains uninvestigated, as the Chinese government conducts a campaign of mass internment and imprisonment. The Chinese authorities' zero tolerance for peaceful dissent in 1997 has developed into the targeting of any Uyghur in a bid to eradicate the Uyghur identity and culture.
Jan 28, 2019
Persecution of teachers, scholars and artists constitutes an attempt to erase Uyghur culture. 338 Uyghur intellectuals interned, imprisoned or forcibly disappeared since April 2017, including 21 staff mebers of Xinjiang University. International scholarly exchange with China cannot be justified until they are released.
Dec 12, 2018
The Chinese Communist Party poses a fundamental threat to civilized values and a rules-based international order. The Party’s massive crackdown in 2018 is breathtaking, encompassing independent intellectuals, civil society, and religious believers of all kinds, including Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan Buddhists, Chinese Buddhists, and Hui and Turkic Muslims across the length and breadth of China.
Nov 29, 2018
UHRP calls on governments, Muslim and all faith leaders, companies, and academic institutions to end business as usual with the government of China, at a time when it is expanding concentration camps for Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim groups. UHRP asks governments and businesses to think about the judgment of history, and take urgent action.
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Events
March 19, 2019
Taiwan Sentinel chief editor J. Michael Cole sat down on the sidelines of the event with Nury Turkel, Rushan Abbas and Timothy Grose to discuss the current plight of Uyghurs, who face severe repression at the hands of the People’s Republic of China.
February 28, 2019
For the past six years, the China Law Group has held an annual conference and organized a student-led discussion group on current issues related to the law in China and to China in international law.
February 26, 2019
The Chinese Communist Party poses a fundamental threat to civilized values and a rules-based international order. The Party’s massive crackdown in 2018 is breathtaking, encompassing independent intellectuals, civil society, and religious believers of all kinds, including Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan Buddhists, Chinese Buddhists, and Hui and Turkic Muslims across the length and breadth of China.
The Persecution of the Intellectuals in the Uyghur Region Continues
Jan 28, 2019
Jan 28, 2019
Persecution of teachers, scholars and artists constitutes an attempt to erase Uyghur culture. 338 Uyghur intellectuals interned, imprisoned or forcibly disappeared since April 2017, including 21 staff mebers of Xinjiang University. International scholarly exchange with China cannot be justified until they are released.
BRIEFING: Cultural Destruction in East Turkestan
Jan 26, 2019
Jan 26, 2019
The Chinese government has been demolishing Uyghur neighborhoods across East Turkestan, for more than a decade. This has resulted in the loss of physical structures, including Uyghur homes, shops, and religious sites. Uyghurs have been forcibly relocated to heavily monitored apartment blocks.
BRIEFING: Concentration Camps in China for Uyghurs and Other Turkic Muslims
Jan 26, 2019
Jan 26, 2019
The massive scale and sudden establishment of the concentration camp system in East Turkestan is unprecedented. According to US government estimates, there are a minimum of 800,000 and possibly over 2 million people currently detained. This is up to 20 percent of the Uyghur population.