Campaign for Uyghurs
Experts fear China’s deadly Coronavirus may spread to the Uyghur concentration camps in Xinjiang
Source: TMV Experts are now fearing that the deadly Coronavirus, China’s most recent viral disease that has reportedly killed 82 people so far, has a potential of causing massive outbreaks in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, where more than 2
Jewish leaders call for action on China’s ‘intolerable’ treatment of Uyghurs
Source: Times of Israel Jewish leaders urged the community to “stand up” on Monday as they heard from an exiled activist seeking to raise attention to the plight of an estimated 1 million Chinese Muslims thought to have been detained
Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter
Source: The New York Times Behind Zulhumar Isaac’s grandmother’s house, there was a large mulberry tree, so vast the branches covered the roof of the garage like a second ceiling. For a week each spring, the tree burst with dark,
‘If They Hadn’t Tortured My Husband, He Wouldn’t Have Fallen Into a Coma’
Source: RFA Munawwar Ablimit is a Uyghur mother of two from the prefecture-level city of Karamay (in Chinese, Kelemayi) in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In 2017, her husband Polat Ibrahim was sent to an internment camp, where
German report spells out China human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims
Source: DW The human rights situation in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region has “markedly worsened” in recent years, according to a confidential document compiled by the German Foreign Ministry that was leaked to DW and its German media partners NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Uyghur Woman Uses Social Media to Bring ‘Justice and Freedom’ to Father
Source: VOA The last time Samira Imin had contact with her father was April of 2017. It was her father’s birthday. The two exchanged pictures and messages on the Chinese social messaging service WeChat. Weeks later, her father disappeared. He
Secretary Pompeo’s Meeting with Family Members of Ethnic Kazakhs Affected by the Human Rights Crisis in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China
Source: U.S. Mission Kazakhstan Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo met on Sunday with ethnic Kazakhs whose family members have been detained in internment camps or prisons in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China (PRC). These individuals’
Never Again is Now: The Crisis Confronting China’s Uyghur Muslim Community
Source: Temple Beth Hatfiloh Since 2017, as many as 800,000 – 1.8 million Uyghurs and Kazakhs have been “disappeared” into a widespread system of “reeducation camps” in the Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang). Nearly all Uyghurs and Kazakhs in China have
Rushan Abbas from Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU) Testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
CFU Press Release For immediate release February 3rd, 2020 6:00 pm EST Contact: contact@campaignforuyghurs.org Campaign For Uyghurs www.campaignforuyghurs.org Rushan Abbas from Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU) Testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs On January 28th, 2020, Ms. Rushan
China’s Actions in Xinjiang May Amount to ‘Crimes Against Humanity,’ Says US Rights Report
Source: RFA China’s system of extrajudicial internment camps for Uyghurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) last year may meet the definition of “crimes against humanity,” a U.S. congressional advisory panel said in its annual report,
Targeted by Chinese Smear Campaign, Uyghur Leader Learns of Father’s Death
Source: RFA Dolkun Isa, the president of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) exile group, is used to being on the receiving end of hostile Chinese propaganda campaigns, but the latest state media slander story carried sad news: His father had
Open threats against Uyghur activist in Germany lay bare China’s lawless persecution
Source: UHRP A prominent Uyghur rights advocate was openly threatened by family members of an official of the Chinese government on January 12. At a memorial service in Munich, relatives of Shohret Zakir, Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,