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Tag: Uyghurs in Xinjiang

May 21, 2023

New Details About Uyghur Law School...

Meryem Ismayil was a law student at Xinjiang University when she took her life five years ago. The 22-year-old Uyghur from Aqerik village in Xinjiang’s Shayar County was distraught over the detention of her father, a Chinese Communist party cadre and member of the village’s People’s Congress. 

May 10, 2023

​​Newly Published Documents Reveal How China...

Lazy persons, drunkards, and “other persons with insufficient inner motivation” must be subjected to “repeated … thought education” to ensure they take part in state-sponsored “poverty alleviation” campaigns to pick cotton in China’s Xinjiang region, a previously unpublished internal government document ordered local cadres.

January 27, 2023

U.S.-Based Uyghur Man Calls on China...

A Uyghur man working as an engineer in the United States has called on Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang to release his 19-year-old sister, who was detained in December after posting a video relating to November’s  “white paper” protests across China.

January 12, 2023

Traditional Uyghur Medicine Used to Treat...

As COVID cases surge in China’s western Xinjiang region, the area’s top government official has urged hospitals to incorporate traditional Uyghur medicine to treat patients

August 9, 2022

Uyghur Who Studied in Turkey Arrested...

A Uyghur scholar who studied in Turkey and worked for an international company in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was arrested by authorities from his hometown Urumqi, a local police officer and Uyghurs with knowledge of the situation said

August 6, 2022

Xinjiang Officials Use China’s Anti-Crime Campaign...

Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang region used the Chinese government’s 100-day crackdown on criminals and fugitives to target Uyghurs deemed “religious extremists” and “two-faced,” a police officer in a major city said

July 28, 2022

NGOs: Thailand May be Planning to...

Thailand has moved dozens of Uyghurs from around the kingdom to a single facility in Bangkok, a security official confirmed Wednesday, raising fears among NGOs that the government may deport them to China after three detainees escaped earlier this month

June 2, 2022

Officials Open Mosques in Xinjiang Cities...

Officials in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region opened long-closed mosques in the two cities visited last week by the United Nations human rights chief to give the appearance of normalcy despite a severe crackdown on the religion and culture of Muslim Uyghur residents, local police officers and government officials said

May 27, 2022

Uyghur Sports Trainer Confirmed Arrested by...

A Uyghur athletic trainer who worked at a university in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region was arrested by Chinese authorities in 2017, said Uyghur sources with knowledge of the situation and officials in the region

May 21, 2022

UN Rights Chief’s Office Announces Dates...

The U.N.’s human rights chief on Monday will begin a six-day official visit to China, including to the far-western Xinjiang region where widespread abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities at the hands of Chinese authorities are said to have occurred

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