Wikileaks and the Uyghur

December 20, 2010

December 20, 2011 Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project If it were ever in doubt, information obtained by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese government fears over its continued control of the region it calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The leaked cables from U.S. diplomats demonstrate the extent to…

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A Visit to Tongxin Middle School

November 8, 2010

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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