Far From Xinjiang, Uyghurs Keep Their Culture Alive Photo: VOA March 15, 2024 VOA News By Liam Scott MUNICH —  In a nondescript building in southwestern Munich, Uyghur children gather every Saturday to do something that is banned in China: learn their native language. On a recent morning, the children in the youngest course giggled as their instructor made animal noises to teach...
Detainees stand behind cell bars at the police Immigration Detention Center in central Bangkok on Jan. 21, 2019. More than 40 Uyghurs have been held for a decade. RFA staff2024.03.11Bangkok After fleeing persecution in China and...
Minotiry Rights Group Profile The Uyghurs are predominately Turkic-speaking Sunni Muslims, who, according to China’s 2020 census, number roughly 11.5 million in China. Their homeland is what is now the northwestern corner of China,...
Washington, March 8, 2024   WASHINGTON, D.C. –  On Friday, U.S. Congressmen Mike Waltz (FL-06), Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul (TX-10) led a bipartisan letter to...
By Associated Press Euronews 07/03/2024 The engineer resigned from Google in December, appearing at a conference in Beijing three days later representing a Chinese company. A former software engineer at Google has been charged with...
Performers welcome tourists in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, Sept. 4, 2023. They also ask 3 US travel agencies to stop offering tours to the region so as to avoid perpetuating ‘atrocity crimes.’ By Roseanne Gerin for RFA2024.03.07   Two...
Demonstrators protest against China’s alleged human rights violations in California on Nov. 15, 2023. (Photo: AFP) Compared with US law, the EU legislation is weak, says China expert Adrian Zenz UCA News March 06, 2024  A US-based...
Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, attends the high-level event commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, December 11,...
WUC President Dolkun Isa Delivers Speech at the Opening of New Office in Munich, March 3, 2024 The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) celebrated the opening of its new office in Munich, Germany, marking a significant milestone with a grand...
Photo credit: nn-airport.kz BY SANIYA SAKENOVA 29 FEBRUARY 2024 The Astana Times ASTANA – Kazakhstan will switch to a single time zone (UTC+5) from 12 a.m. on March 1 following a government decree on time calculation...
In 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) heightened enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA). The UFLPA established a rebuttable presumption prohibiting the importation of goods mined, produced, or manufactured, in whole or part in the Xinjian Uyghur Autonomous...
A Uyghur activist is wrestled off the stage at a Lunar New Year event in the Netherlands on Feb. 24, 2024. Rights groups condemn the event as propaganda for showing Han Chinese dancers in traditional Uyghur attire. By Eugene Whong for...
Visual of the Uyghur protest in Netherlands (Photo: X @AbdurehimGheni)© Provided by Asian News International (ANI) Story by ANI |  2/252024 The Hague [Netherlands], February 25 (ANI): The Uyghur community in The Hague, Netherlands,...
Nader Hashemi and James A. Millward DAWN February 23, 2024 Days before the International Court of Justice's initial ruling late last month that found there was a plausible risk of genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza, the...
Ma Xinmin at ICJ (Photo: Social media) By News Intervention Bureau   February 23, 2024 The recent representation of China at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories has...
Two layers of barbed wire fencing ring the Hotan City apparel employment training base where Hetian Taida Apparel Co. has a factory, in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, Dec. 5, 2018. The U.S. blocked shipments from Hetian Taida in 2019 over accusations the manufacturer was using forced...
CUS Press Release For Immediate Release February 22, 2024 Contact@uyghurstudy.org Uyghurstudy.org The Center for Uyghur Studies’ (CUS) new report, “Unraveling China’s Infiltration Into Central Asia”, analyzes China’s...
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster FRANCES MARTEL Breitbart, Feb 20 2024 A coalition of 61 organizations representing Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz people, and others facing an ongoing genocide campaign by the Chinese Communist Party published a letter...
FRANCES MARTEL Breitbart, Feb 19 2024 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference this weekend partially focused on discouraging Western businesses from seeking to invest elsewhere to avoid...
The suspects were rounded up in simultaneous raids in Istanbul for allegedly “collecting information” about prominent members of the Uyghur diaspora and their institutions based in Turkey.February 20, 2024, Al Monitor   Ezgi...