Headlines- According to US President Donald Trump, talks with Iran may occur this next weekend.
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards claim that in response to US strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, they opened fire on US military installations.
- In order "to safeguard national security," Bahrain's Ministry of Interior declared that it has arrested fifteen people who were allegedly linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
- Kuwait said on Wednesday that one person was killed and numerous others were injured in an Iranian missile and drone strike on its international airport.
- During a press conference in Geneva on Wednesday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, stated that the Ebola virus in central Africa has had a "big head-start" and warned that health officials were still lagging behind.
Tag: RFA’s Uyghur Service
Uyghur Youth Transferred to Xinjiang After...
Miradil Hesen was arrested three days after his videos went public in September in eastern China’s Jiangsu province where he said he had been sought by police since August 2018 for downloading Instagram—which is blocked in the country—to his cellphone
Xinjiang Authorities Remove Statue of Revered...
From the early 1980s into recent years, numerous scholars in China have researched and published about Kashgary and his work, and numerous national and international scientific seminars on the topic of his work have been held in Urumqi and Beijing
Authorities Remove Statue of Uyghur Medicine...
Ghazibay, who lived in present-day Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) between 460 and 375 B.C., was the author of a famous medical treatise—the modern Uyghur-language title of which translates as “Ghazibay’s Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicines.”
Xinjiang Authorities Have Detained Hundreds of...
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained hundreds of Muslim imams, according to a Uyghur linguist in exile, creating an atmosphere in which Uyghurs are “afraid of dying” because there is no one to oversee their funeral rites
Jailed Uyghur Scholar Rahile Dawut to...
The award will be presented at a virtual conference, “Freedom to Think 2020: Responding to Attacks on Higher Education,” and will be accepted by Dawut’s daughter, Akeda Pulati, who described her mother in an SAR statement Wednesday as “a scholar, not a criminal.”
Uyghur Businessman Faces Deportation to Xinjiang...
Hamidulla Wali once ran Hadiya Clothing, a company based in the capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) that sells clothes embroidered with Uyghur designs.
Young Wrestler Jailed in Xinjiang For...
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have sentenced a young ethnic Kazakh wrestler to 15 years in prison for sharing a song by a Kazakhstani musician on social media, according to a former internment camp detainee. Kastar Polat, a 20-year-old man from Chaghantoqay (in Chinese, Yumin) county, in Ili Kazakh (Yili Hasake) …
Six Camp Detainees From a Street...
At least three people have died and three are seriously ill from among 17 people taken to internment camps from a single street in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)
‘I Lived My Life as I’d...
During the political instability of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, Chanisheff, then a new college student, participated in the founding of the East Turkestan People’s Party—a group of Uyghur elites who sought to establish an independent Uyghur state in the Xinjiang region
Two Missing Tianjin University Students Confirmed...
Often, public security officers in the XUAR investigate detainees to determine whether their so-called “crimes” merit a stint in jail or transfer to one of the region’s vast network of internment camps