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...
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...
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...
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...
Press Release – For Immediate Release22 December 2024World Uyghur Congress www.uyghurcongress.org The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is appalled by the Chinese government’s decision to impose sanctions on the Uyghur Rights Advocacy...
Statement December 24, 2024 – Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada Global Affairs Canada today issued the following statement: “On December 22, 2024, the Government of the People’s Republic of China arbitrarily...
PRESS STATEMENT The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has recently imposed sanctions on the Canada Tibet Committee, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, and 20 human rights advocates. The Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile stands in solidarity...
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...
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...
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...
Taiwan Parliament Group for Uyghur & Taiwan East Turkestan Association   Joint Statement for East Turkistan Independence Day   East Turkistan (the so-called "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region") was never historically a...
India Narrative November 8, 2024   The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) issued a strong condemnation of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) following its recent summit in Bishkek. In a scathing statement, ETGE...
Ibrahim Hooper November 1, 2024, CAIR The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a ban on the entry to the United States of products...
Release Date: October 31, 2024 UFLPA Entity List Will Now Restrict Goods from 78 PRC-Based Companies from Entering the United States WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the addition of...
UNGA79 THIRD COMMITTEE: GENERAL DISCUSSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS: JOINT STATEMENT ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN XINJIANG AND TIBET Statement delivered by H.E. Mr James Larsen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the...
Washington, D.C. — October 4, 2024 For Immediate Release Contact: Hena Zuberi hena@justiceforall.org (202) 922-5878 Justice For All’s Save Uyghur Campaign Responds to USCIRF Report on Religious Oppression in Chinese-Occupied East...
Ismail Allison October 3, 2024 The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) banning two Chinese...
September 24, 2024 By U.S. Mission Geneva Joint Statement on Xinjiang on the Second Anniversary of the OHCHR’s Assessment Item 4 General Debate 57th Session of the Human Rights Council As Delivered by Ambassador Michèle...
Economist Ilham Tohti, from China's predominantly Muslim Xinjiang region, speaks to students at the Central Nationalities University in Beijing, China, December 1, 2009. © 2009 Elizabeth Dalziel/AP Photo Sakarov Prize Winner...
Uyghur protests in Washington DC. Credits. A statement from Uyghur scholars in view of the 2024 General Assembly of the World Uyghur Congress in Sarajevo. Bitter Winter, 09/23/2024 We the undersigned are a group of Uyghur scholars,...