Tursunjan Hezim in Aksu, July 5, 2007. (Erkin Sidik)
Tursunjan Hezim created a website archiving books and materials about Uyghur history.
By RFA Uyghur
2025.01.28, RFA
Uyghur historian Tursunjan Hezim, the founder of the Orkhun website, which archived a vast collection of books and materials on Uyghur history before it was shut down by Beijing, was sentenced to life in prison...
2025-01-29 :Date
Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks after he was sworn in by Vice President JD Vance, in the Vice President's ceremonial office at the White House on Jan. 21, 2025. Allison Robert/AFP via Getty Images
The regime did not lift its...
2025-01-23 :Date
Niluper and her three children in Turkey
Jonathan Head
Southeast Asia correspondent
BBC, Jan 21 2025
Niluper says she has been living in agony.
A Uyghur refugee, she has spent the past decade hoping her husband would...
2025-01-21 :Date
Russian airplanes drop bombs on Syria, 2020. Credits.
The war years were hell for Syrians but sometimes paradise for the Uyghurs, who were better off there that under Chinese persecution. Some even found love.
Kok Bayraq
Bitter Winter,...
2025-01-21 :Date
John Moolenaar (R-MI), Chairman of the Select committee on the Chinese Communist Party, sent a letter to the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United States, urging the Thai government not to deport the Uyghurs to China, where...
2025-01-20 :Date
Detainees behind cell bars at the police Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok, Thailand, January 21, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit
End Detention, Allow Refugee Status Determination
HRW, January 17, 2025
(Bangkok) – A group of 48 Uyghur men who have been held for over a decade...
2025-01-20 :Date
An immigration detention center in Bangkok where Uyghurs have been detained.Credit...Haruka Nuga/Associated Press
Dozens of men from the ethnic minority sought escape from repression in China a decade ago, but have been detained in...
2025-01-19 :Date
Uyghur-Australian Mamutjan Abdurehim’s wife was detained eight years ago in China. He hasn’t seen her since and is urging the federal government to sanction China over its treatment of Uyghurs. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/The...
2025-01-19 :Date
January 19, 2025, ShiwaWaves
The World Uyghur Congress and affiliated organizations staged protests worldwide on Saturday, urging the Thai government not to repatriate 48 Uyghur refugees to China, ANI reported. Activists rallied outside...
2025-01-19 :Date
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio testifies in Washington before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of State, Jan, 15, 2025.
WASHINGTON —
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's...
2025-01-19 :Date
Thai officers stand guard as Aekaluck Paenoi, a suspect in the assassination of Cambodian government critic Lim Kimya, 74, arrives in Thailand on Jan. 11th, 2025. Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters
Human Rights Watch says Thailand should follow its own laws on not sending people back to risk of...
2025-01-19 :Date
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham fighters parading in Umayyad Square to celebrate the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, Damascus, December 20, 2024. LAURENCE GEAI /MYOP FOR « LE MONDE »
Uyghur fighters from the Turkistan Islamic Party helped...
2025-01-18 :Date
No clarity yet on fate of 48 detainees as officials to review relevant legal framework
The Nation Thailand, JANUARY 17, 2025
Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai on Friday denied reports about government plans to deport Uyghurs to...
2025-01-17 :Date
Uyghur fighters in Syria. Screenshot.
A journey from cheerful musician to fighter. China may call it radicalization. I see it as part of a generation’s religious awakening.
kok Bayraq, Bitter Winter
01/15/2025
In August 2023 at...
2025-01-17 :Date
Washington, Jan 13, 2025
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and immediate past chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), issued the following statement in response...
2025-01-16 :Date
Containers are stacked beneath cranes at Port Newark Container Terminal in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., October 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
By Karen Freifeld
January 14, 2025, Reuters
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - The United States has banned imports from...
2025-01-14 :Date
The Uyghurs have been held for more than a decade after fleeing from China.
By Nontarat Phaicharoen for BenarNews and RFA Staff
2025.01.13, RFA
BANGKOK - A human rights group has urged Thailand not to deport to China 48...
2025-01-14 :Date
An immigration detention center where Uyghur detainees are held in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Haruka Nuga)
By DAKE KANG and HUIZHONG WU
AP ,January 11, 2025
BANGKOK (AP) — A group of...
2025-01-11 :Date
CAIR, January 11, 2025
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the reported sentencing of a Uyghur Muslim woman in China to 17 years in prison...
2025-01-11 :Date
Saylikhan Rozi in an undated photo from a video screenshot. (RFA)
Read RFA coverage of this story in Uyghur.
Her sons also were handed jail terms.
By Shohret Hoshur for RFA Uyghur
2025.01.10, RFA
A Uyghur woman has...
2025-01-11 :Date
