Dr. Dilnur Reyhan, a prominent French-Uyghur scholar and activist, and the president of the European Uyghur Institute, October 13, 2020. © 2020 Michael Bunel via Reuters Connect
French Authorities Should Drop the Case Against Dr. Dilnur...
2025-10-11
September 24, 2025, Munich - Perhat Muhammet (Yorunqash), a co-founder and former Vice President of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), as well as the editor-in-chief of the World Uyghur Congress Web TV and a renowned journalist, passed away...
2025-09-25
Seven years after her enforced disappearance, Campaign for Uyghurs urges the Chinese government to release Dr. Gulshan Abbas, highlighting ongoing transnational repression against Uyghurs in East Turkistan.
Washington, D.C. – On...
2025-09-13
Known by the title "Hazretim," the founder and commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Organization, and the legendary leader who made significant military and economic contributions to the East Turkestan Islamic Republic, Mehmet...
2025-06-26
Dolkun Isa and his classmates at the time they were expelled from Xinjiang University in September 1988.
In 1988, the Uyghur people decided that enough was enough. June 15 is not just a date—it represents honor, courage, and...
2025-06-22
Jewher Ilham will not see her father, the Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, this Father’s Day. In fact, she has not seen him since 2013, when he was detained by the Chinese authorities and later sentenced to life in prison on baseless charges...
2025-06-14
Memtili Tewpiq. Credits.
A brave and crucial voice for Uyghur education, he became a target of warlord Sheng Shicai and his Soviet allies.
Abdurehim Gheni Uyghur
Bitter Winter, 06/06/2025
Last week, on May 30th, 2025, the Uyghur...
2025-06-07
Örkesh Dölet was a student leader at the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. He was an undergrad in the Education Department in Beijing Normal University at the time
By Nuria Khasim – Originally published in The Guardian
In a deeply...
2025-06-03
Photo of Rune Steenberg. Used with permission.
This isn't the first time a Uyghur researcher or advocate has been denied entry to Kazakhstan
Global Voices Eurasia 12 May 2025
A Danish anthropologist, Rune Steenberg, who...
2025-05-13
Campaign for Uyghurs founder and executive cirector Rushan Abbas's book "Unbroken" (Courtesy of Rushan Abbas)
Leader of the Campaign for Uyghurs set to release a memoir that explores her personal story and her struggle against...
2025-05-01
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...
2025-01-29
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
Community leader and veteran journalist Riza Samedi sits beneath a photo of his father, Ziya Samedi, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 2024. (Abdulhakim Idris/Center for Uyghur Studies)
Read RFA coverage of this story in Uyghur.
Riza...
2025-01-04
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
Ilhan Tohti, a scholar of China's Uyghur ethnic minority, speaks during an interview at his home on Feb. 4, 2013 in Beijing, China. (Andy Wong/AP)
Photo: RFA
He disclosed information about Ilham Tohti while he was in solitary...
2024-09-20
A screenshot of part of Tursunjan Nurmamat’s LinkedIn page. Nurmamat, who is from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, specialized in molecular biology and was working as a science editor when he disappeared in...
2024-08-24
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the martyrdom of Abdulkadir Abdulwaris, widely known as Abdulkadir Damolla, a revolutionary scholar and religious leader who was a prominent figure in the Uyghur Enlightenment Movement. We honor his...
2024-08-14
Professor, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Abdulakhat Kakhkharov, 73, was found dead in his Almazar apartment in Tashkent. Information about this surfaced on social networks. The press service of the Prosecutor General's Office confirmed...
2024-07-26
Ilham Tohti lectures in a classroom in Beijing on June 12, 2010. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
What is the problem?
Ilham Tohti, a renowned Uyghur intellectual, has spent the last ten years unjustly imprisoned for his peaceful...
2024-07-22
Kasim Kashgar (center front) is photographed with, from right, Semet Ababekri, Abdukadir Rozi, Akber Osman, Mirkamil Ahmed and Mehmut Abdukeyum, during a school party in Urumqi in August 2015. Photo provided by Kasim Kashgar
Chinese...
2024-06-08
