Uyghurs living in Turkey protest Wang Yi on July 26, 2023, in Istanbul, Turkey. (Hakan Akgun via Getty Images) Share to Twitter   Dec 18, 2024, Hudson Institue, Olivia Enos Kalbinur...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
December 5, 2024, NPR In the Xinjiang region of western China, the government has rounded up and detained hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups. Many haven't been heard from in years, and more still are...
Ms. Mamut with her sons Mamutjan Turkel, left, and Nury Turkel, on Sunday. The sons had not seen their mother in 20 years.Credit...Moriah Ratner for The New York Times On Thanksgiving eve, U.S. diplomats reunited family members who had...
Susan Palmer with the new book she co-authored. The best way to document the horror of what is happening is to let victims speak for themselves.  by Ruth Ingram Bitter Winter, 11/27/2024 Many versions of the Uyghur story have shot to...
July 29, 2021, CFR   Speakers James Leibold Head of Department, Politics, Media, and Philosophy, and Professor, La Trobe University; Senior Fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute Biao Teng Pozen...
World leaders attending the G20 Summit pose for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (November 19, 2024) G20 Summit Focuses on Global South Priorities, Excludes Human Rights and Uyghur Issue The G20 summit held in Rio de Janeiro...
A Uyghur man walks past a closed mosque in Kashgar, located in China’s Xinjiang province, on July 13, 2023. Pedro Pardo/AFP The president and his advisors might clash over human rights in China By Amy Mackinnon, a national security...
FILE - Uyghurs and their supporters rally across the street from United Nations headquarters in New York City, March 15, 2018. As Donald Trump’s second White House term nears, Uyghur American advocates push for tougher action on...
Hasan Imam, a Uyghur refugee who spent years in Thai immigration detention centers after being smuggled out of China in 2014.Credit...Sabiha Çimen/Magnum, for The New York Times He fled brutal repression — only to discover, as so many...
Editor's note: Mars Sariyev is a Kyrgyz political scientist and regional security expert. The article expresses the personal opinion of the author and may not coincide with the view of News.Az. By Mars Sariyev NEWS.AZ, 11 Nov 2024 As...
The eleven-year confinement of Uyghurs in criminal cells violates UN detention standards and fundamental human rights, while their treatment defies international protections against arbitrary imprisonment.” Latief U Zaman Deva* Kashmir...
New Delhi, Oct 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) The fields of history and archaeology, while fundamentally objective in their pursuit of knowledge about the past, are frequently co-opted to serve nationalistic narratives that legitimise coercive...
Front cover of “Çimenkuş,” a new volume of Uyghur poetry written by Uyghur exile Aziz Isa Elkun, and translated for a Turkish audience ( photo used with permission of Ömca Astana Yayinlari publishing house). An anthology of poetry...
Panelists at The China Forum include, at left, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., and Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., center. (Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation) Audrey Streb Audrey Streb is a member of the Young Leaders Program at...
Illustration by AFCL Taiwanese YouTubers face scrutiny for promoting videos about Xinjiang that align with China’s official stance.   By Rita Cheng for Asia Fact Check Lab   2024.10.08, RFA   In late August, a Taiwanese...