Headlines- Two days after catastrophic flash flood struck the border between China and Nepal, rescue workers have resumed searching for hundreds of people who are still missing.
- At least 538 people killed and another 1,300 went missing on Wednesday after landslides caused by a glacial collapse unleashed a torrent of mud and water across Nepal and China's autonomous region of Tibet.
- Iran's President Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf met with Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister to discuss ongoing efforts to defuse the situation in the region.
- According to Iran's security chief, Moshen Rezaei, his country is preparing together a list of conditions to submit to the United States in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
- In an attempt to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America," US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, further escalating his conflict with Canada and its prime minister.
- Mazloum Abdi, the leader of the now-dissolved Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), has been named presidential advisor by Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Tag: Xinjiang
Jailed Uyghur Scholar Tohti’s 52nd Birthday...
Supporters of jailed Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti marked his 52nd birthday Monday with calls for his release from a life sentence for “separatism” he received for his advocacy work in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region
Death of Detained Uyghur Imam Underscores...
A Uyghur imam who survived 15 years in prison for separatism in northwestern China’s Xinjiang only to die during a two-year stint in an internment camp, raises questions of torture and highlights the abusive nature of the camp system that has drawn accusations of genocide, said Uyghurs with knowledge of the case
Dread Among Tibetans As ‘Butcher of...
The newly appointed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) boss in Tibet, a hardline apparatchik under multiple international sanctions for severe human rights abuses in neighboring Xinjiang, is expected to apply to Tibet’s Buddhists the same harsh policies carried out against the Muslims in Xinjiang, Tibetans and experts said
Report Documents Extensive Grassroots Policing of...
Scores of Chinese government bodies are engaged in an elaborate whole-of-government campaign of repression targeting Muslim Uyghurs in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, according to report published this week by an Australian think tank
French Mural of Former Uyghur Detainee...
A mural artist who champions the oppressed has painted a portrait of a former Uyghur survivor of an internment camp on a building in France’s second-largest city to raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Muslim minority group in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region
Uyghur Carpenter Serves Third Stint in...
A Uyghur who spent eight years in state custody during two separate prison terms on different charges in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region was detained a third time in September, according to a source with knowledge of the situation and police in his hometown
Interview: ‘The Current Situation of The...
Turkey has been one of the most hospitable countries to Uyghurs, with whom Turks share ethnic, religious, and linguistic connections. Turkey’s government has offered Uyghurs a safe place to live outside northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. About 50,000 Uyghurs are believed to live in Turkey — the largest Uyghur diaspora outside Central Asia
Uyghurs in Canada Open New Mosque...
With Koranic recitations and the raising of the blue and white crescent moon and star East Turkestan flag, Uyghurs in Canada opened a mosque and community center on the outskirts of Toronto in a renovated 150-year-old Roman Catholic Church to serve a community of 2,000 members of the Turkic ethnic group
Uyghur Exile Group Leader Turned Back...
Dolkun Isa, the president of the Munich-based (WUC) exile group, has been turned away at the airport in the Turkish capital Ankara and flown back to Germany Monday, two weeks after he learned that a travel ban against him had been lifted, he and his lawyer said
China Slams Second Session of Uyghur...
China has denounced the second round of a Uyghur Tribunal scheduled to begin Friday in London to investigate whether the government’s alleged rights abuses targeting ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its far-western Xinjiang region constitute genocide