About 50 people gathered Tuesday outside the US Mission to the UN in New York to draw attention to the fate of China’s Uighur minority, and urge action from the United States. The appeal was launched by a young medical student, Yosef Roth, who had no connection with this Muslim minority before mobilizing for this cause.…
Up until 2018, Lunar New Year celebrations were conspicuously absent from Uyghur society. Today, it is the largest cultural event of the year — for the wrong reasons. Young Han and Uyghur people celebrate the year of the pig in the town of Kucha in the southern part of the Uyghur autonomous region on January…
Sayragul Sauytbay, the only person to have worked inside an internment camp in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) and spoken publicly about it, now faces an uncertain future in Kazakhstan. LMATY, Kazakhstan—Speaking to a packed courthouse in eastern Kazakhstan in August 2018, Sayragul Sauytbay—an ethnic Kazakh Chinese national—provided some of the earliest testimony about Beijing’s vast internment camp system for Muslim…
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) are delivering pork to Muslim households during the Lunar New Year holiday, and forcing some Muslims to drink alcohol, eat pork, and display emblems of traditional Chinese culture, RFA has learned. Residents of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uyghur Autonomous…
China is waging an unprecedented crackdown on the Uighurs, a majority-Muslim ethnic group in the western region of Xinjiang (East Turkistan), China. Authorities are suspected of detaining up to 2 million people in the region and sending their children to state-run orphanages. Abdurahman Tohti, a 30-year-old Uighur man living in Turkey, hasn’t heard from his…
The United Nations Human Rights Council should adopt a resolution establishing an international fact-finding mission to Xinjiang (East Turkistan), the region of China where up to one million Turkic Muslims are being arbitrarily detained, a group of nongovernmental organizations said in a joint statement to UN member states today. China should recognize that only an international fact-finding…
Demonstrations were held outside the Chinese embassy in London against China’s mass oppression against the Uyghur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Autonomous Region, also known as East Turkestan. The protest on Tuesday was organised by the International Observatory of Human Rights (IOHR) and attended by over one hundred people who chanted slogans such…
Exclusive new details have emerged about the transfer of Uyghur detainees outside Xinjiang (East Turkistan), and the conditions inside the prisons warehousing them for re-education. Bitter Winter has once again received exclusive news about Muslims being transferred to Shaanxi and Gansu. The prisons in these two provinces where Muslims are received and detained have also been…
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…
