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China forces 500,000 Tibetans into labour camps

Tibet News, Uyghur NewsBy Anthony Galloway and Eryk Bagshaw September 22, 2020

Original article: https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/china-forces-500-000-tibetans-into-labour-camps-20200922-p55xyk.html China is pushing hundreds of thousands of Tibetans into forced labour camps, mirroring a program in the western Xinjiang region, as the International Olympic Committee is urged to strip Beijing of the Winter Olympics. New evidence suggests the Chinese government now has a large-scale mandatory “vocational training” program in Tibet, pushing more…

Trump Signs Uyghur Human Rights Act Into Law

Uyghur NewsBy Nurmuhammad Majid June 23, 2020

US and China clash over Uyghur harassment in Australia and ‘fake police cars’

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Michael Walsh December 19, 2019

A diplomatic war of words has emerged between the American and Chinese embassies in Canberra, amid claims Beijing is harassing Uyghur minority people living in Australia. Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been subject to a wide-ranging security crackdown in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where it is believed more than a million people have been…

People Are Pressuring the Olympic Committee to Help Shut Down China’s Uyghur Camps

Featured Articles, Human Rights in China, Uyghur NewsBy Leila Ettachfini December 19, 2019

“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 says reports of detention of 1m Uighurs ‘fake news’

Human Rights in China, Uyghur NewsBy Paul Karp December 19, 2019

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”…

Chinese ambassador says Xinjiang ‘trainees’ have graduated in rare press conference

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Ben Westcott and Hilary Whiteman December 19, 2019

(CNN) China’s ambassador to Australia has defended Beijing against accusations of human rights violations in a rare press conference Thursday, saying allegations that one million people had been detained in Xinjiang were “fake news.” In a carefully-worded series of answers, ambassador Cheng Jingye reiterated the Chinese government’s stance that the massive centers weren’t “detention camps” but…

China Has Been Telling Lies About the Concentration Camps

Uyghur NewsBy Tahir Imin Uighurian February 28, 2019

From denying the existence of the concentration camps to transferring thousands of Uighur prisoners to prisons in other provinces in China, Chinese authorities have been lying to the international community. China has failed to hide the existence of the concentration camps despite its strong attempts thanks to Human Rights Watch reports, concerns expressed by the U.S.…

Colleges should punish int’l students who engage in threats, racial hatred and intelligence gathering for Beijing

Featured Articles, Human Rights in ChinaBy Kevin Carrico February 24, 2019

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…

In the Depths of Xinjiang: Ubiquitous Persecution

Featured Articles, Human Rights in ChinaBy LI ZAILI February 21, 2019

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…

China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise

Featured Articles, Human Rights in ChinaBy Sui-Lee Wee February 21, 2019

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…

Uighurs fled persecution in China. Now Beijing’s harassment has followed them to Australia.

Human Rights in ChinaBy Rick Noack February 10, 2019

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…

QR-6, 9 February 2019, Statement of the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hami Aksoy, in response to a question regarding serious human rights violations perpetrated against Uighur Turks and the passing away of folk poet Abdurehim Heyit

Central Asia NewsBy Republic of Turkey February 9, 2019

Practices violating the fundamental human rights of Uighur Turks and other Muslim communities in the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uighur Autonomous Region have worsened, especially during the last two years, and have been brought to the agenda of the international community. In particular, the official declaration of the “Sinification of All Religions and Beliefs” policy in…

Protest in New York over fate of China’s Uighurs

Uyghur NewsBy Hong Kong Free Press February 7, 2019

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.…

The Future Of Uyghur Cultural — And Halal — Life In The Year Of The Pig

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Darren Byler February 6, 2019

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…

She Fled China’s Camps—but She’s Still Not Free

Uyghur NewsBy Reid Standish February 6, 2019

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 Officials Force Muslims to Drink, Eat Pork At Festival

Human Rights in ChinaBy Qiao Long February 6, 2019

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…

This man’s family vanished in China’s most oppressed region. Last month he saw his son for the first time in 2 years, in a Chinese propaganda video.

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Alexandra Ma February 5, 2019

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…

UN: Act to End China’s Mass Detentions in Xinjiang

Human Rights in ChinaBy Amnesty International February 4, 2019

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…