Ethnic Uighur people walk in front of a giant screen with a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping in the main city square in Kashgar in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uighur Autonomous Region, China September 6, 2018. The screen broadcasts a slideshow of images of Xi on loop, including propaganda images of his previous visit to…
More than a dozen bipartisan U.S. lawmakers have nominated jailed Uyghur academic and blogger Ilham Tohti to receive the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his commitment to peaceful interethnic dialogue between members of his ethnic group and China’s Han Chinese majority. An outspoken economics professor who regularly highlighted the religious and cultural persecution of the…
ISHR joined today with over 36 organisations to launch a call on governments to adopt a resolution addressing human rights in China, with particular focus on Uyghur and other ethnic minority regions. This is the first time in over a decade that an organised effort has been made to use the Human Rights Council to seek access…
The EU has repeatedly voiced concerns about the human rights situation in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) The team was supervised by Chinese officials trying ‘to give a good impression’ Kashgar was one of the cities visited by the European Union team. Photo: Bloomberg A European Union delegation has visited China’s far western region of Xinjiang (East…
Detentions, visa delays, and suspected phone bugging are among the challenges faced by foreign journalists in China, who say working conditions are getting worse with many reporting being watched and harassed. A survey of 109 journalists published Tuesday “painted the darkest picture of reporting conditions inside China in recent memory,” the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of…
Last fall, 646 international scholars signed a statement condemning the internment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) region of western China, stressing that mass internment of citizens on the basis of ethno-cultural and religious identity is unprecedented in the twenty-first century and should not be tolerated by the international…
In recognition for his tireless work in raising the human rights concerns of the Uyghur people and for promoting peaceful interethnic dialogue in China, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) and Norwegian Uyghur Committee (NUK) have nominated Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti for the Rafto Prize. The Rafto Prize is awarded annually…
With one million minority Uyghur Muslims detained for re-education, what becomes of their children? They are locked in “schools” of Han Chinese propaganda. The children of the detained Uyghur parents are kept in so-called Loving Heartkindergartens and schools in Xinjiang (East Turkistan). They undergo full-time supervision and receive their education in Chinese only. Usually, the iron gates…
Xi’s economic ambitions drive the anti-Muslim crackdown in Xinjiang (East Turkistan). Twice a day, employees at an upscale jewelry boutique in China’s remote western region of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) stop what they’re doing and don bulletproof vests and combat helmets. Thrusting long clubs, they practice defending the store against attackers. Their imaginary assailants aren’t jewel…
WATCH ABOVE: In 2016, supporters of Canadian Huseyin Celil called for his release from a Chinese prison on the 10th anniversary of his arrest. Listen When they were little, Kamila Telendibaeva’s sons used to ask her the same question every day: “When is my dad going to come back?” Three of her four boys are…
