Uyghurs in Turkey have expressed worries over being extradited and the safety of their families in China, saying they don’t contact them, fearing their loved ones will be prosecuted for being in communication with people abroad, Deutsche Welle (DW) Turkish service reported.
Ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) spokesperson Ömer Çelik emphasized in a statement late Tuesday that Turkey is closely following the situation in China's Xinjiang region, saying that the government's "utmost priority is that Uighur Turks are treated well."
Amendment is back in the UK House of Lords on Tuesday.
Uighur rights groups are urging multinational corporations that have agreed to sponsor the Beijing Winter Olympics, to boycott what they call the “Genocide Games” and use their platforms instead to educate the world about China’s persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province ahead of the 2022 event.
The bloc's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has told the UN that Beijing must assist with efforts to investigate reports of human rights abuses against Uighurs.
On February 22, 2021, British Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon. Dominic Raab M.P., called upon the U.N. Human Right Council to ensure that the situation in Xinjiang is considered as a matter of urgency.
As a Holocaust survivor, I am devastated that, 76 years after the initial vow that nothing like the Holocaust should ever be allowed to happen again, it has in fact happened again and again.
The Trudeau government is trying to have it all ways on the hot-button issue of China’s appalling treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority. Not surprisingly, it’s ended up pleasing precisely no one.
Parliament’s move was not supported by Trudeau and likely to raise diplomatic tensions between the two nations
UK foreign secretary will say UN needs ‘urgent and unfettered’ access to a region where some one million Uighurs are thought to have been held.
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UHRP’s report, “The Government Never Oppresses Us”: China’s proof-of-life videos as intimidation and a violation of Uyghur family unity, analyzes Chinese state media videos featuring Uyghurs denying any suffering and demanding an end to criticism of state policies.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has submitted a report for consideration by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in preparation for the Committee’s examination of the 3rd periodic report of China.
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) or Bingtuan:
1. Exercises State & Police Powers
2. Serves as a Colonizing Force
3. Commits Brutal Abuses
4. Profits from Uyghur Forced Labor
5. Operates a Global Business Empire
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released a new briefing highlighting calls by Uyghur Americans for the Chinese government to return their relatives’ passports and permit travel overseas for family reunifications in the United States.
The Uyghur Human Rights Project has released a new report analyzing the Chinese government’s attempts to craft and promote a narrative responding to international criticism of its large-scale arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples.
On July 21, 2020, Dr. Elise Anderson, UHRP's Senior Program Officer for Research and Advocacy, testified before the House of Commons of the Canadian Parliament on the Human Rights Situation of the Uyghurs.