Note: This article written by Amy Anderson is based on interviews with Tashpolat Tiyip’s friends, students and relatives. Their identities cannot be revealed due to obvious reasons. Sometime after he disappeared in 2017, Tashpolat Tiyip, the president of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) University, was sentenced to death in a secret trial. The Chinese state has provided…
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…
Inside Tibet report There is growing evidence that military and security officials in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) (known to Uyghurs as East Turkestan) are collaborating more closely with their counterparts in the border areas of Tibet and elsewhere, reflecting the Chinese leadership’s alignment of Tibet and Xinjiang (East Turkistan) and the importance of both regions to…
