“No Rights. No Games.” is using the 2022 Olympics to place pressure on the Chinese government to end its persecution of Uyghur Muslims. The last time Irade Kashgary heard from her grandmother was in 2015. That was the year her grandmother told the family that she’d been placed under house arrest in Xinjiang, an autonomous…
China’s ambassador to Australia has labelled reports that one million Uighurs are being held in detention “fake news”, seeking to excuse mass incarceration as a deradicalisation measure. At a rare press conference at the Chinese embassy in Canberra, Cheng Jingye claimed the mass detention in Xinjiang province had “nothing to do with human rights, nothing to do with religion”…
All students are responsible for: …supporting an environment free from harassment, intimidation, discrimination, assault, and Sexual Violence; …treating others in a way that does not harm them physically and/or threaten or intimidate them emotionally or mentally. -McMaster University Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities. Last week, Rukiye Turdush came to McMaster University to make a presentation on…
There is no escape from religious persecution. In the smallest villages, mosques are destroyed, people are forced to break Halal laws, and face re-education. Yuli county is located in central Xinjiang (East Turkistan), and is under the administration of the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. It has a population of approximately 120,000 people, of which 47.6% are Uyghurs. In September of…
The Chinese authorities turned to a Massachusetts company and a prominent Yale researcher as they built an enormous system of surveillance and control. Tahir Imin, a 38-year-old Uighur, had his blood drawn, his face scanned and his voice recorded by the authorities in China’s Xinjiang (East Turkistan) region.CreditCreditKate Warren for The New York Times BEIJING…
Families are being torn apart as China’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims continues Tens of thousands of Chinese Uighur families are being torn apart in a crackdown that’s seen as many as one million people detained, according to the U.N. (Reuters)By Rick NoackFebruary 10 ADELAIDE, Australia — Alfiraa Dilshat and Rashida Abdughufur were picnicking in the small seaside…
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…
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…
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…
