Posts Tagged ‘Arbitrary Detention’
WUC and UHRP Grieved by Death of Uyghur Refugee in Detention Center in Thailand
The World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Human Rights Project have received news that Mr. Mattohti Mattursun (Muhammad Tursun), an Uyghur refugee who had been in Thai detention since March 13, 2014, passed away on Friday. He was 40 years old and died of suspected liver failure. His family’s whereabouts are unknown.
Read MoreA Conversation With Ilham Tohti: Reflections on the 9th Anniversary of His Detention
People are forgetting him, myself included, as prolonged silence does to our memory and short attention spans. Beijing is counting on our forgetfulness. Never mind that, by China’s law, he should be receiving one family visit a month.
Read MoreMainstreaming Stories: A Day of Solidarity with Uyghurs
April 24, 2019 Henryk Szadziewski, Senior Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project The accounts of the ‘re-education’ regime that people are undergoing in those camps are harrowing…I imagine my lovely, principled, dedicated colleague there, and I feel incredibly angry. Dr. Rachel Harris, University of London The disappearance of Dr. Rahile Dawut, a leading expert on Uyghur…
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