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Rights Czar Visit to China Contingent on ‘Full Access’ to Xinjiang Internment Camps: UN
June 14, 2019
Prominent Uighur Writer Dies at Chinese Internment Camp
June 14, 2019
A prominent Uighur writer, who had been held at an internment camp in China’s Xinjiang region, has died inside the camp, his family members told VOA.
A student leader 30 years after Tiananmen: Wu’er Kaixi reflects on the movement
June 14, 2019
This week, Kaiser is joined by Nury Turkel of the Uyghur Human Rights Project in an in-depth conversation with Wu’er Kaixi (Örkesh Dölet), best known as one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen protests that rocked Beijing 30 years ago.
Bringing the “Uyghur Crisis” to the Heart of the United States
June 14, 2019
Unity, cooperation, and network were the three keywords of an extraordinary event held in Washington, D.C., by the élite of the persecuted Xinjiang diaspora.
Xinjiang Visit by U.N. Counterterrorism Official Provokes Outcry
June 14, 2019
Rights activists say upcoming trip by U.N. diplomat could reinforce Beijing’s line that Uighur activists are terrorists.
UN counter-terror tsar visits Xinjiang where Uighurs held in huge numbers
June 14, 2019
Activists say official visit risks affirming China’s narrative that camps thought to hold a million people are not an abuse of human rights
Academic Freedom: universities must take a stance or risk becoming complicit with Chinese government interference
June 14, 2019
This is an important year in Chinese history. It marks the anniversaries of two political movements involving students and scholars: the May Fourth Movement and the Tiananmen Square protests – known in China as the June Fourth Incident.
CHINESE TECHNO-SECURITY IS AUTOMATING ISLAMOPHOBIA .. AND SPREADING GLOBALLY
June 14, 2019
Currently at least one million Uighur Muslims have been detained in concentration camps in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang (referred to as East Turkestan by the native population).
‘It would become like Xinjiang’: Surveillance-savvy Hong Kong protesters go digitally dark
June 14, 2019
Hong Kong’s tech-savvy protesters are going digitally dark as they try to avoid surveillance and potential future prosecutions, disabling location tracking on their phones, buying train tickets with cash and purging their social media conversations.
Belgium’s Beijing Embassy Calls Chinese Cops on Uighur Family
June 14, 2019
Belgian officials say their small country can't risk offending China.
Parents of Drowned Uyghur Child Likely Held in ‘Political’ Re-education Camp
June 13, 2019
The five-year-old girl’s body was recovered from a river nearly a week after she died, sources say.
Jun 3, 2019
Thirty years after the killing of unarmed civilians on Tiananmen Square, the Chinese Communist Party shows no sign it will confront its crimes against humanity. Governments must act.
May 21, 2019
Since April 2017, the Chinese government has interned, imprisoned, or forcibly disappeared at least 435 intellectuals as part of its intensified assault on Uyghurs and erasure of their culture. This group is likely a small fraction of all Uyghur intellectuals suffering serious human rights violations.
May 16, 2019
A new special report published by the Uyghur Human Rights Project highlights the politically motivated linguicide of the Uyghur language
May 1, 2019
On World Press Freedom Day, governments and the United Nations must call on China to free interned and imprisoned Uyghur journalists and to open East Turkestan to foreign reporters.
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UYGHUR BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography of select news reports & academic works
Compiled by Professor Magnus Fiskesjö
June 7, 2019
The corner where Heyitkah Mosque stood is now a school and parking lot. Satellite images show 30 other ‘erased’ religious sites, but Xinjiang officials deny any demolitions took place. The vanishing places of worship are seen as a reflection of the growing pressure Chinese authorities have placed on Uygurs and other ethnic minorities in the region.
June 6, 2019
The European Society for Central Asian Studies expresses its dismay over the detention of up to 1.5 million Uyghurs and others of mainly Central Asian origin in political “re-education centers” in Xinjiang, Northwest China.[1]
June 6, 2019
After her husband was taken by the CCP police and “disappeared,” Nafisa became a de facto widow and fled to Turkey. Life is not easy for Uyghur refugees there.
Resisting Chinese Linguistic Imperialism: Abduweli Ayup and the Movement for Uyghur Mother Tongue-Based Education
May 16, 2019
May 16, 2019
A new special report published by the Uyghur Human Rights Project highlights the politically motivated linguicide of the Uyghur language
Detained and Disappeared: Intellectuals Under Assault in the Uyghur Homeland
Mar 25, 2019
Mar 25, 2019
The Uyghur Human Rights Project has identified at least 386 Uyghur intellectuals detained and disappeared since early 2017, victims of the massive campaign of ethno-religious repression carried out by the Chinese government in the Uyghur homeland. It is time to end business as usual.
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.