Posts Tagged ‘Education’
UHRP Submits Comprehensive Report for UN Consideration of China’s Human Rights Record
The government of China is perpetrating crimes against humanity and genocide in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region targeting Uyghur and other Turkic and Muslim-majority peoples on the basis of religion and ethnicity.
Read MoreQ&A With Student of Imprisoned Linguist Abduweli Ayup
September 16, 2014 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project Listen to the full interview on SoundCloud and find a transcript below. Last month, Uyghur linguist Abduweli Ayup was sentenced to 18 months in prison as a result of his language education work. In this interview, Ayup’s former student Michael describes to UHRP Project Manager…
Read MoreMy beloved school’s name will be wiped out from East Turkestan history
January 18, 2011 Introduction: In the past two decades, and with increasing intensity since 2002, China has pursued assimilationist policies aimed at eliminating Uyghur as a language of instruction in East Turkestan. Employing the term bilingual education, the Chinese government is, in reality, implementing a monolingual Chinese language education system that undermines the linguistic basis…
Read MoreA Visit to Tongxin Middle School
November 8, 2010 Amy Reger, Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project In a recent article published by Phoenix New Media, reporter Qi Rui describes a visitto TongxinMiddleSchool, a schoolcomprised of Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Hui students located in an impoverished area of East Turkestan’s Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture.[1] Qi’s visitis part of an exploration into the…
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