Mugshots of Uighur dissidents from China who escaped from Thailand, as released by Thai police last year. A court will decide on their fate today. (Bernama pic) Klang MP says the Uighurs are at risk of persecution, life imprisonment, and torture if returned to China. PETALING JAYA: Klang MP Charles Santiago has urged the…
In the aftermath of unrest in Urumchi on July 5, 2009, Chinese security forces conducted sweeps of Uyghur neighborhoods in the city arbitrarily detaining Uyghur males. A number of these individuals were forcibly disappeared and to date their whereabouts remain unknown. Nine years since the unrest, Chinese authorities are enforcing the mass incarceration of Uyghurs in…
An ethnic Uyghur woman on crutches protests in front of a line of paramilitary police in Urumchi, in China’s Xinjiang region, July 7, 2009. Thursday marks the ninth anniversary of a crackdown amid ethnic tensions between Han Chinese and minority Muslim Uyghurs that left hundreds dead and thousands more injured in Urumchi, the capital of…
