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.…
At least 10 Australian residents may be among the hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs imprisoned in the Chinese regime’s “re-education camps” in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) province, prompting safety concerns from family members in Australia. Nurmuhammad Majid, president of the East Turkistan Australian Association (ETAA) said that he is aware of nine Australian residents and one…
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…
Washington (CNN)The children’s eyes light up when their mother pulls out a photo of her triplets taken shortly after their birth in 2015. “Moez!” three-year old Moez says, pointing at the infant version of himself. “Elina!” says his sister Elina. Promoted by Cabinet Office, Government of Japan The countries giving a voice to disability inclusion…
House arrest or forced labor awaits most of those released so far in what may be a public relations ploy. ALMATY, Kazakhstan—“I don’t know if they’re alive or dead.” This has become one of the most common phrases heard among the Uighur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz communities outside China, both in private conversations and online, in video…
China is using its huge digital surveillance system, and the threat of sending family members to reeducation camps, to pressure minorities to spy on their fellow exiles. ISTANBUL — Spying on behalf of the Chinese state went against everything O. believed in. Yet even as he sat thousands of miles away in a quiet town…
A masked protester joins a march of ethnic Uighurs in Brussels in April asking the European Union to call upon China to respect human rights in the Chinese Xinjiang region. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador for religious freedom, is pressing the Trump administration to impose sanctions on Chinese leaders associated with the…
Almas Nizamidin, an Australian citizen, urges the Australian government to help save his detained wife and mother in West China. Last year, when Almas Nizamidin returned to Urumqi — the capital city of China’s far-west region of Xinjiang — he was on a mission to find his wife who had been taken from her home…
The Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, which detains parents and led to the separation of 2,000 children, has been controversial and lead to some changes. But in China, police have been interning hundreds of thousands of adults for offenses like growing a beard or legally travelling overseas, or sometimes no offence at all. There are…
