China Protests Shine Light on Limits of Uyghur Solidarity
2 years ago

China Protests Shine Light on Limits of Uyghur Solidarity

News 18  

Their deaths in a fire triggered China’s biggest protests in generations, but few people seemed to know the victims were Uyghur families torn apart by Beijing’s crackdown in Xinjiang. “It’s an attempt to avoid happening to them next, rather than an attempt to show… empathy or understanding with Uyghurs,” said David Tobin, a Xinjiang scholar at Britain’s University of Sheffield. “And I feel super helpless, because I don’t feel we can possibly find any way to help them.” When hundreds gathered in London last month, activist Rahima Mahmut unfurled a flag associated with Xinjiang independence. Many protesters “really didn’t know that these victims were Uyghurs… or what is happening to Uyghur people”, she told AFP.

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World merrily forgets Uyghur cause as China mobilises mega-propaganda machine
3 months, 2 weeks ago

World merrily forgets Uyghur cause as China mobilises mega-propaganda machine

Firstpost  

While China has become largely successful in influencing international opinion to favour its narrative on Xinjiang, the world community has failed miserably to set Beijing right for its follies The Chinese government has made all-out efforts to muzzle international media, including social media, and to thwart academics and activists who oppose the Chinese move against Uyghurs and support the human …

China's Uyghur policies a 'racialised atrocity crime', Harvard law scholar finds
4 months ago

China's Uyghur policies a 'racialised atrocity crime', Harvard law scholar finds

ABC  

The Chinese government has imposed 4.4 million years of cumulative imprisonment on ethnic Uyghurs in its far-western Xinjiang region, a new report has found. The report, titled Uyghur Race as the Enemy and published by the Yale Macmillan Center's Genocide Studies Program, finds high rates of incarceration are part of "racialised atrocity crimes" occurring in China against Muslim minorities. The …

Sinicisation of Islam inevitable: Senior CCP official in China's Xinjiang
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Sinicisation of Islam inevitable: Senior CCP official in China's Xinjiang

Op India  

Ma Xingrui, a top official of the Communist Party of China, declared on 7th March that the “Sinicisation” of Islam in the province of northwest China, where Muslims predominate, is “inevitable.” The chief of the party’s Xinjiang unit was speaking to the media on the sidelines of the country’s annual parliamentary sessions in Beijing. He also emphasised the significance of …

China: Communist Party official calls for Sinicization of Islam in Xinjiang
9 months, 2 weeks ago

China: Communist Party official calls for Sinicization of Islam in Xinjiang

Firstpost  

The Uyghurs are a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, numbering about 10 million. China vehemently disputes any wrongdoing Following a wave of ethnic riots in 2017, China allegedly initiated a harsh security crackdown in Xinjiang, resulting in the detention of over a million members of various Muslim minorities in re-education centers, according to rights groups Image Courtesy AP The …

China to face burnt of West at UN over ill-treatment of Uyghur Muslims, Beijing has only 45 seconds to defend
11 months ago

China to face burnt of West at UN over ill-treatment of Uyghur Muslims, Beijing has only 45 seconds to defend

India TV News  

Geneva: China underwent scrutiny of its human rights record at a key UN meeting on Tuesday, with Western countries calling for more protections for Xinjiang Uyghurs and greater freedom in Hong Kong, while Beijing said it had made historic progress. China has been lobbying non-Western countries to praise its human rights record ahead of the meeting by sending memos to …

Biden expresses ‘solidarity’ with China’s Uighurs during Ramadan
1 year, 9 months ago

Biden expresses ‘solidarity’ with China’s Uighurs during Ramadan

Al Jazeera  

The US president’s highlighting of the Uighurs comes at a time of strong tension between Washington and Beijing. President Joe Biden has expressed “solidarity” with China’s embattled Uighur minority in a message to Muslims around the world as they celebrate the holy month of Ramadan. “Together with our partners, the United States stands in solidarity with Muslims who continue to …

Uyghur refugees in Turkey worry about deportation to China after Chinese minister's visit to Ankara
2 years ago

Uyghur refugees in Turkey worry about deportation to China after Chinese minister's visit to Ankara

Op India  

Uyghur refugees yet to get Turkish citizenship, are worried about deportation post-Turkey’s Interior Minister’s discussions with his Chinese counterpart. Sources privy to the meeting’s proceedings revealed that the Chinese side has asked the Turkish government to deport some of the identified Uyghur refugees staying in Turkey to China before they are accepted in Canada, according to the International Forum for …

How a fire in remote China triggered nationwide covid protests
2 years ago

How a fire in remote China triggered nationwide covid protests

Live Mint  

As smoke crept through the 21-story apartment building in far western China, panicked messages filled the residents’ chat group. Pandemic controls imposed by Chinese authorities around, and possibly inside, the apartment building had delayed the fire response, neighbors and family members of those killed have said. Li Wensheng, Urumqi’s fire chief, said at the press briefing that some residents’ “self-rescue …

Protests spread in China as anger mounts over ‘zero-COVID’
2 years ago

Protests spread in China as anger mounts over ‘zero-COVID’

Al Jazeera  

Residents and students rally in Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing, with some even calling on Xi Jinping to step down. Hundreds of students from Beijing’s Tsinghua University rallied at their campus on Sunday, the AFP news agency reported, chanting “freedom will prevail” and calling for an end to lockdowns. In Shanghai, hundreds of people gathered at the city’s Wulumqi Road at …

China's Brutal 'Hunger Games': Uyghur Genocide in The Name of Zero-Covid Policy
2 years, 3 months ago

China's Brutal 'Hunger Games': Uyghur Genocide in The Name of Zero-Covid Policy

News 18  

Residents of a city in China’s Xinjiang are experiencing hunger, forced quarantines, and dwindling supplies of medicine and food. Uyghur groups protested in Istanbul on Monday near the Chinese consulate in Sariyer district against Beijing’s “Hunger Genocide” on the pretext of controlling the Covid-19 pandemic. Around 3,000-3,500 protesters including women and children gathered outside the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, condemning …

Explained: What does the U.N. report say about China’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang?
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained: What does the U.N. report say about China’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang?

The Hindu  

The story so far: China has vehemently rejected a report released by the United Nations Human Rights Office on “serious human rights violations” in the northwestern Xinjiang region. Charges of torture of Uyghurs and other mainly Muslim ethnic groups in the region may constitute possible “crimes against humanity”, concludes the long-pending assessment report, released on the final day of the …

Uyghur genocide, imprisonment plans revealed through leaked Chinese documents
2 years, 5 months ago

Uyghur genocide, imprisonment plans revealed through leaked Chinese documents

India TV News  

Highlights The documents were retrieved from internment camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Among the documents is a speech by Chinese Communist Party secretary of the XUAR, Chen Quanguo Chen described the campaign strategy of governing Xinjiang that was directed by Xi Jinping Uyghur genocide: The Chinese government has planned genocide and crimes against Uyghurs, leaked documents -- known …

China's crackdown of Muslim minorities under scrutiny ahead of UN human rights chief visit
2 years, 7 months ago

China's crackdown of Muslim minorities under scrutiny ahead of UN human rights chief visit

Firstpost  

China is accused of incarcerating one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in detention camps in Xinjiang in a security crackdown that the US and other countries have called a ‘genocide’ Beijing, China: China’s crackdown on Muslim minorities in the remote region of Xinjiang will return to the spotlight next week when Beijing hosts the United Nations human rights chief …

As Beijing Olympics begin, exiled Uyghurs fight for families oppressed in China
2 years, 10 months ago

As Beijing Olympics begin, exiled Uyghurs fight for families oppressed in China

LA Times  

Surely his son would know his voice, Abdurahman Tohti thought. “It’s a feeling I cannot describe.” The boy was only 2 in 2016, when he left Turkey with his mother and grandmother to visit their homeland in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Chinese officials say Uyghurs abroad, including camp survivors who’ve testified about suffering sexual abuse and torture, are “fake …

Uighurs in Turkey call for boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics
2 years, 11 months ago

Uighurs in Turkey call for boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

Al Jazeera  

Protesters accuse the Chinese state of committing genocide and torture against the Muslim Uighur minority. Dozens of demonstrators from China’s Uighur Muslim ethnic group have protested in Istanbul, calling for a boycott of next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s treatment of the minority. “China does not have the right to host the Olympics while committing all the torture, …

EXPLAINED: Who Are The Uyghurs And How They're Linked To US And Allies' 'Boycott' Of Beijing Winter Games
3 years ago

EXPLAINED: Who Are The Uyghurs And How They're Linked To US And Allies' 'Boycott' Of Beijing Winter Games

News 18  

The UK, Canada and Australia have joined the US in announcing a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Games that gets underway on February 4 next year with human rights abuses in Xinjiang being a major point of concern. A report by the Council on Foreign Relations says that incidents of rioting in 2009 in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi by …

‘A historic day’: Uyghurs welcome genocide ruling and call for action from world leaders
3 years ago

‘A historic day’: Uyghurs welcome genocide ruling and call for action from world leaders

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Uyghur diaspora has called …

170 Uyghur Muslims detained in XInjiang for praying during Eid: Reports
3 years, 4 months ago

170 Uyghur Muslims detained in XInjiang for praying during Eid: Reports

Op India  

The Chinese authorities had detained more than 170 Uyghur Muslims for questioning after they offered prayers without permission during the occasion of Eid-al-Adha, reported Radio Free Asia. Chinese authorities use ‘neighbourhood spies’ against Uyghur Muslims Radio Free Asia reported that the cops did not storm into mosques to verify the age of those attending religious prayers but instead employed ‘neighbourhood …

China Demands Cancellation of UN Meeting on Uyghurs
3 years, 7 months ago

China Demands Cancellation of UN Meeting on Uyghurs

News 18  

China on Monday urged the United States, Germany, and Britain to cancel an upcoming video conference on Beijing’s crackdown on the Uyghur Muslim minority, and called on other UN members not to attend the event. Beijing “urges the co-sponsors to immediately cancel this event which interferes in China’s internal affairs, and calls on other Member States to reject the event.” …

Uyghur community leaders in Australia appalled and outraged the government allowed a Chinese Communist Party propaganda parade
3 years, 8 months ago

Uyghur community leaders in Australia appalled and outraged the government allowed a Chinese Communist Party propaganda parade

ABC  

Uyghur community leaders say Australia should be ashamed for allowing a Chinese government propaganda presentation to take place, and have called for the alleged atrocities against the minority group to be labelled a genocide. Key points: Uyghur community leaders say the material presented by the Chinese embassy was "preposterous" They say it is part of a move to legitimise the …

How Beijing silences Chinese voices against oppression of Uyghurs
3 years, 8 months ago

How Beijing silences Chinese voices against oppression of Uyghurs

LA Times  

A member of the Uyghur community living in Turkey joins a protest against China in Istanbul on Feb. 26. Mareike Ohlberg, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, has analyzed more than 3,000 procurement documents for “public opinion management” systems from Chinese government agencies ranging from traffic police in Lanzhou to Beijing’s High People’s Court. The court wanted 5,000 …

Uyghurs in Turkey protest Chinese foreign minister’s visit
3 years, 8 months ago

Uyghurs in Turkey protest Chinese foreign minister’s visit

Associated Press  

ISTANBUL — Hundreds of Uyghurs staged protests in Ankara and Istanbul on Thursday, denouncing Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Turkey and demanding that the Turkish government take a stronger stance against human rights abuses in China’s far-western Xinjiang region. Dozens of Uyghurs, Turkish opposition lawmakers and academics also assembled near the Chinese Embassy in Ankara, as Wang met …

An Uyghur activist speaks out against the silence of the global community
3 years, 10 months ago

An Uyghur activist speaks out against the silence of the global community

Op India  

The Xinjiang autonomous region in China is facing the worst kind of cultural and ethnic genocide. A ground study from Concentration camp survivors suggests that Chinese authorities have adopted brutal methods to stop new Uyghur births. Forced pregnancy checks, medications that stop menstruation, forced abortions, sterilizations, IUDs, and mystery injections are given to Uyghur women by Chinese officials to stop …

How China tries to silence Uyghur families outside of Xinjiang
4 years ago

How China tries to silence Uyghur families outside of Xinjiang

CNN  

CNN — Friday, September 4 was one of the happiest days in recent memory for Mayila Yakufu and her family. When asked about Yakufu’s case, the Chinese Mission to the EU told CNN that her family were believed to be members of the “Eastern Turkistan Liberation Organization,” which the Chinese government labels a terrorist organization. “She was arrested by the …

Canada condemns Chinese atrocities on Uyghurs in Xinjiang: Details
4 years, 2 months ago

Canada condemns Chinese atrocities on Uyghurs in Xinjiang: Details

Op India  

In another embarrassment for China, a sub-committee of Canada’s House of Commons condemned the atrocities of the Chinese regime against the Uyghurs and other ethnic Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang province. It stated, “If the international community does not condemn the human rights abuses in Xinjiang province by the Government of China, a precedent will be set, and these methods …

Curse of Being Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang
4 years, 2 months ago

Curse of Being Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang

News 18  

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest administrative region in northwestern territory. And while over a million Uyghur and other ethnic Muslims are incarcerated in internment camps, China says ‘sinicisation of Islam’ has matured since it was put forward as a concept by Jinping in 2015. Six months later, in July 2019, China came up with a theory that …

Uyghurs Facing Genocide, World Leaders Need to do More against China's Acts, Says Activist
4 years, 3 months ago

Uyghurs Facing Genocide, World Leaders Need to do More against China's Acts, Says Activist

News 18  

Tragically late, ‘Uyghur’ is a word the world is finally learning to say. “In 1955, it was agreed that the Uyghur region would be autonomous, but the Chinese government has never honoured that agreement.” Hundreds were killed in local uprisings Ghulja in February 1997 and again in 2009. In 2014, a new police state emerged and “since 2017 re-education camps …

What’s been happening in China’s Xinjiang, home to 11 million Uyghurs?
4 years, 6 months ago

What’s been happening in China’s Xinjiang, home to 11 million Uyghurs?

CNN  

CNN — As US President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Wednesday that aims to punish Beijing for its repression of the Uyghur ethnic minority, he was accused by his former national security adviser of endorsing China’s construction of internment camps in its western region of Xinjiang. According to an excerpt from John Bolton’s forthcoming book published in The …

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