Campaign for Uyghurs

Google Translate adds five languages

Source: Google Millions of people around the world use Google Translate, whether in a verbal conversation, or while navigating a menu or reading a webpage online. Translate learns from existing translations, which are most often found on the web. Languages

Uyghur Former Detainee of Xinjiang Internment Camp Denied Treatment Amid Coronavirus Quarantine

Source: Radio Free Asia A Uyghur former detainee of an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been unable to get treatment for a serious medical issue because breaking an ongoing quarantine for the novel coronavirus

Museum on Main to Explore Uyghur Culture

Source:  THE INDEPENDENT The Museum on Main in Pleasanton and the local Uyghur community are partnering to celebrate Uyghur culture and raise awareness of Uyghur community and culture genocide in China. The Celebrate Community Events will include: Uyghur Nowruz MoM’s

Uyghurs starving as China imposes draconian coronavirus measures

Source: MEMO Activists in Xinjiang have complained that they are suffering shortages of food and medicine as China imposes a quarantine to curb the spread of coronavirus, reports the New Arab. The Washington-based Uyghur Human Rights Project has said that residents

China asylum claims to Germany more than double

Source: INFOMIGRANT Asylum applications from China to Germany have more than doubled in just one year. Increasingly, people from the oppressed Uighur minority have been looking to Germany to escape Chinese oppression. The number of asylum seekers to Germany from

New evidence for China’s Uighur prison system

Source: DW China has imprisoned as many as one million Uighurs – a Muslim minority based in the Xinjiang region in the northwest of the country. The Chinese authorities claim that the internment camps are vocational training centers set up

China’s ‘War on Terror’ uproots families, leaked data shows

Source: AP Beijing (AP) — For decades, the Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming community in China’s far west. On Fridays, he preached Islam as a religion of peace. On Sundays, he treated the sick with free herbal

The Karakax list: how China targets Uighurs in Xinjiang

Source: FT Christian Shepherd in Karakax and Laura Pitel in Istanbul June 2016, Ruzunsa Memettohti, a Uighur Muslim who has lived in Turkey for two decades, called her younger sister Patem in Karakax, a county in the Chinese region of

Watched,judged,detained- Leaked Chinese government records reveal detailed surveillance reports on Uyghur families and Beijing’s justification for mass detentions

Source: CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Rozinsa Mamattohti couldn’t sleep or eat for days after she read the detailed records the Chinese government had been keeping on her entire family. She and her relatives, most of whom live in China’s western

Uighurs in China: ‘I didn’t even know if my mum was alive’

Source: BBC Aziz Isa Elkun is one of many Uighur Muslims living in London who have been cut off from contacting their families based in Xinjiang. Since 2016, China has detained more than one million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang in

Advocates say coronavirus spread would be ‘catastrophic’ for detainees of Chinese internment camps

Source: ipolitics Advocates are urging the federal government to take action amid concern the spread of the coronavirus would have devastating consequences for the 3 million Uyghur Muslims and other minority groups detained in Chinese internment camps. Speaking at a press

The Ghulja Massacre: remembering China’s brutal crackdown on a peaceful Xinjiang protest

Source: Hongkong Free Press By Zubayra Shamseden, Chinese Outreach Coordinator, Uyghur Human Rights Project It was horrifying to hear that my sister Mesture, who was in severe pain going into labour with her first child Nazife, was unable to go

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