Campaign for Uyghurs

Uyghur Real Estate Magnate Confirmed Jailed Along With Brothers, at Least 20 Employees

Source: RFA The Uyghur head of a successful real estate firm in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and two of his brothers have been confirmed jailed on charges including “extremism,” along with at least 20 of his employees,

Safe and sound? China launches propaganda blitz to discredit Uyghur #StillNoInfo campaign

Source: ABC News Aydidar Kahar tucks her long hair behind her ear and smiles at the camera. She takes the viewer on a tour of a mall in Xinjiang — decked out with luxury brands like Versace, Gucci and Dior

China used 9/11 as grounds to discriminate against Uyghur

Source: Daily Telegraph Uyghur Activist Rushan Abbas says “the Chinese government uses every opportunity to suppress Uyghur people”. Ms Abbas claimed as many as three million of the Chinese ethnic … WATCH THE VIDEO AT DAILY TELEGRAPH

The long arm of the CCP has extended its reach to Western counties: Harassment of Uyghur activists is stretching outside of China’s borders

For immediate release January 16, 2020, 6:00 pm EST Contact: contact@campaignforuyghurs.org Campaign For Uyghurs www.campaignforuyghurs.org As Uyghur activists around the globe are succeeding in raising awareness of China’s crimes against humanity and genocide, China is becoming desperate in discrediting the

Job Announcement: World Uyghur Congress Washington D.C. Representative

World Uyghur Congress,  27 December 2019 The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is an international umbrella organization that represents the collective interest of the Uyghur people both in East Turkestan and abroad and promotes Uyghur human rights, Freedom and a peaceful

China’s false accusations against Uyghurs in regards to their missing relatives

Press Release – For immediate release 29 December 2019 Contact: contact@campaignforuyghurs.org Campaign For Uyghurs  www.campaignforuyghurs.org Unsubstantiated statements have been published by the Global Times, a Chinese propaganda newspaper functioning under the political patronage of the Chinese Communist ruling Party (CCP). The published article claims that

Happy holidays from the Campaign for Uyghurs!

        We wish you a Merry Christmas and cheerful, prosperous New Year! At the same time, we would like to share the Campaign for Uyghurs’ gratitude and appreciation for the world community for speaking out, standing by

‘This is mass rape’: China slammed over program that ‘appoints’ men to sleep with Uighur women

News.Com.au, December 21, 2019 By Gavin Fernando – One of China’s most disturbing policies shocked the world when it made headlines. The full extent of it is even worse than we imagined. Western coverage of one of China’s worst human

The Brief: ‘the last time I was able to talk to my father was 2014’

Source: EURONEWS The Uyghur economist and human rights activist Ilham Tohti is this year’s Sakharov Prize winner for dedicating his life to the fight for the rights of China’s Muslim minority. In prison for the past 5 years, he won’t

Mesut Ozil’s free speech on China must be preserved, even if Arsenal stay silent

Source: iNews Arsenal footballer Mesut Ozil’s social media post about the political situation in Xinjiang has prompted an angry response from the Chinese authorities. Ozil’s accusation that China is persecuting the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority has been dismissed by Beijing as “fake news”. Meanwhile,

Scholar Visited Xinjiang, Told the Truth—and Lost His Job in Albania

Source: BitterWinter Last week, Arsenal’s football star Mesut Özil denounced the persecution of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslims in the dreaded transformation through education camps. The CCP not only threatened Arsenal to cancel its lucrative contracts with China, but invited Özil to visit the

Daughter of Jailed Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti Accepts Sakharov Prize For Her Father

Source: RFA The daughter of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti accepted the European Parliament’s 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on his behalf on Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to protest China’s policies in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).

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