Uyghur fighters in Syria. From X.
Why did Uyghurs fight in Syria? And what will happen to them now?
by Kok Bayraq
12/30/2024, Bitter Winter
After the battle in Damascus to liberate Syria from Assad, the triumphant display of a group of Uyghur fighters carrying a blue flag with a crescent and star on their military uniforms and their words impressed me and thousands of other Uyghurs in...
2024-12-30 :Date
Workers maintain a cotton field of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, in Alar, northwestern China's Xinjiang region, China March 26, 2021. (China Daily via Reuters)
Fighting over water resources has been a source of...
2024-12-24 :Date
A Uyghur man collects marigold flowers in a field outside Yarkand in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, July 17, 2023. (Pedro Pardo/AFP)
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Dozens of Western companies are identified...
2024-12-24 :Date
Ibrahim David, a Uyghur intellectual and chemistry teacher at Kashgar Secondary School No. 6, died in detention, in China, 2019. (RFA)
Ibrahim Dawut had been an advocate for Uyghur language education, but died 2 months after his...
2024-12-24 :Date
NED, December 23, 2024
Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has subjected Uyghurs and other Muslim groups to human rights abuses. In 2017, this worsened with the CCP’s campaign of internment, imprisoning an...
2024-12-23 :Date
BEIJING –
Dec 22, 2024, The Japan Times
China said Sunday it was taking countermeasures against two Canadian institutions and 20 people involved in human issues concerning the Uyghurs and Tibet.
The measures, which took effect on Saturday, include asset freezes and bans on entry and the...
2024-12-22 :Date
A new peer-reviewed academic report by VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz and I-Lin Lin, published by the International Network for Critical China Studies (INCCS), shows that China’s agricultural sector in Xinjiang is more tainted by forced...
2024-12-22 :Date
A woman prays next to a grave of a relative at the Potocari memorial complex near Srebrenica, northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia, July 10, 2015. (Marko Drobnjakovic)/AP)
They say the international community has again failed to take...
2024-12-21 :Date
Uyghurs living in Turkey protest Wang Yi on July 26, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Hakan Akgun via Getty Images)
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Dec 18, 2024, Hudson Institue, Olivia Enos
Kalbinur...
2024-12-20 :Date
Chinese CCTV firm thought to be anticipating increased pressure from Trump administration
Dec 16, 2024 | Joel R. McConve, Biometric Update
While some are steeling themselves for the second term of incoming U.S. president Donald...
2024-12-17 :Date
THE FALL OF THE ASSAD FAMILY REGIME: A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN SYRIA'S HISTORY
The fall of the Assad regime, which ruled Syria with an iron fist for 55 years, represents a watershed moment in Syria's history. This event has granted a generation of Syrians, who knew no president other than the Assad...
2024-12-16 :Date
Sarajevo Times, December 15, 2024
The Uyghur militant group that contributed to toppling Bashar al-Assad’s regime has vowed to bring the fight to China. The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) issued threats to Beijing in a video released on...
2024-12-16 :Date
Press Release – For Immediate Release12 December 2024Contact: World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org+49 89 5432 1999 or contact@uyghurcongress.org
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) marks the 39th anniversary of the 1985 Uyghur...
2024-12-15 :Date
Uyghur-American lawyer Nury Turkel, center, and his brother Mamutjan greet their mother, Ayshem, after her arrival at a military base in San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 27, 2024. (Courtesy of Nury Turkel)
‘Thank God I am here with...
2024-12-14 :Date
FILE - A man and a woman walk past the Rebiya Kadeer Trade Center, center, on Sept. 6, 2009, in Urumqi, in China's western Xinjiang region. The building, once once a vibrant hub for more than 800 mostly Uyghur-owned businesses, was...
2024-12-14 :Date
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019.
Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
For Uyghur Americans, its feels like a betrayal – a signal that the U.S. may deprioritize...
2024-12-14 :Date
Chen Quanguo, Communist Party secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, speaks at the meeting of the Xinjiang delegation on the sidelines of the National People's Congress in Beijing, March 12, 2019. (Jason Lee/Reuters)
The...
2024-12-12 :Date
International Service for Human Rights, December 10 2024
The European Parliament adopted today an urgent resolution condemning Beijing’s persecution against Uyghurs, demanding the release of prominent figures Gulshan Abbas and Ilham...
2024-12-12 :Date
By Helen Reid
December 12, 2024, Reuters
Summary
NGO pressure slows FCA approval of Shein IPO, sources say
FCA must prepare for possible judicial review application
Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner raised concern...
2024-12-12 :Date
A Uyghur cemetery in Yengisar county, Kashgar prefecture, in northwestern China's Xinjiang region, July 19, 2023. (Pedro Pardo/AFP)
They say the international community must act now to hold Beijing accountable for atrocities in...
2024-12-11 :Date
