Campaign for Uyghurs
US Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities Citing Rights Abuses in Xinjiang
The U.S. Department of Commerce has blacklisted 28 governmental or commercial entities from China it said are implicated in rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic Muslim minorities in the country’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The XUAR’s Public Security
SAR Spotlight on Jewher Ilham
“My father was trying to be a peaceful bridge between Han Chinese and Uyghurs,” said Jewher Ilham. “He never advocated for independence, never advocated for violence.” In this SAR Spotlight, we feature Jewher Ilham, the daughter of imprisoned Uyghur scholar Ilham
Video showing hundreds of shackled, blindfolded prisoners in China is ‘genuine’
Human rights groups say China is holding one million people, mostly ethnic Uighurs, at detention camps – a charge Beijing denies. Online footage purporting to show hundreds of blindfolded and shackled prisoners in a mostly Muslim region of China is
‘Deeply disturbing’ footage surfaces of blindfolded Uyghurs at train station in Xinjiang
Australia’s Foreign Minister and members of the Uyghur community have condemned a “deeply disturbing” and “horrifying” video of Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang that has surfaced online. The footage purportedly shows dozens of Uyghur men — their heads freshly shaved —blindfolded
For Uighur refugees, freedom means losing family
Abdullah Rasul, 35, a Uighur refugee living in Turkey, says that he has so little contact with his family in China that it took three months for him to find out that his father was dead Abdullah Rasul, 35, a
Congress must take action on Chinese human rights abuses
“It has become a crime to be Uighur in China.” Jewher Ilham, a Uyghur activist from China, made this disturbing assertion this week at a religious freedom event on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, the first such
Interview: ‘They Are Doing The Exact Opposite of What my Father Suggested’
Jewher Ilham, the daughter of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, is a graduate from Indiana University who has spoken out in support of his peaceful promotion of equal rights and greater autonomy for the Turkic speaking Uyghur ethnic group in
Faces of religious persecution: Jewher Ilham
Jewher Ilham was 18 when she and her father were set to board a plane to visit the United States in 2013 and Chinese authorities stopped and arrested him. Jewher and her father are Uighur Muslims, a persecuted ethnic minority group. “The
IS IT THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF HUMAN SUFFERING IN XINJIANG?
Marco Respinti – China can’t hide the crimes it commits in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region(that Uyghurs prefer to call East Turkestan) anymore.After months of denunciations by activists, NGOs, and international organizations, a point of no return has been reached with the passing of the Uyghur Human
A Uighur professor vanished and may be executed. Yet China expects respect.
Editorial Board – WHEN DETAINED in China, political prisoners often disappear for months at a time. Sometimes, they reappear after lengthy interrogation, having made a coerced “confession” that is then televised. Others are less fortunate, reduced to just an announcement that
China: Xinjiang Children Separated from Families
(New York) – Chinese authorities should immediately release to their families children held in “child welfare” institutions and boarding schools in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should cease unnecessarily separating Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim children from their families.
Two major milestones in Uyghur advocacy
Jewish World Watch (JWW) is proud to report two major accomplishments in our advocacy work related to the Uyghur (or Uighur) human rights crisis, which we have deemed a cultural genocide and potential mass atrocity situation. In the late evening