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…
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…
Xinjiang (East Turkistan)’s detainees are the latest victims of a deep insecurity. Mihrigul Tursun (right) speaks at the National Press Club in Washington on Nov. 26, 2018. Through a translator, Tursun, a member of China’s Uighur minority, said she spent several months in detention in China where she was beaten, tortured, and given unknown drugs.…
Government officials are monitoring funeral services in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) and prohibiting Muslims from commemorating their dead according to their faith and customs. In an effort to take even more control of religion from believers, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now meddling in how the religious conduct their funerals in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uyghur Autonomous Region. Take,…
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…
