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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.…

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…

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…

Demonstrations in London call for an end to Chinese oppression of Uyghur Muslims

Uyghur NewsBy Islam 21c February 4, 2019

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…

Video: Uyghur Children Indoctrinated in Camps

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy CHANG XIN January 26, 2019

With one million minority Uyghur Muslims detained for re-education, what becomes of their children? They are locked in “schools” of Han Chinese propaganda. The children of the detained Uyghur parents are kept in so-called Loving Heartkindergartens and schools in Xinjiang (East Turkistan). They undergo full-time supervision and receive their education in Chinese only. Usually, the iron gates…

Inside Xinjiang: A 10-Day Tour of China’s Most Repressed State

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Peter Martin January 25, 2019

Xi’s economic ambitions drive the anti-Muslim crackdown in Xinjiang (East Turkistan). Twice a day, employees at an upscale jewelry boutique in China’s remote western region of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) stop what they’re doing and don bulletproof vests and combat helmets. Thrusting long clubs, they practice defending the store against attackers. Their imaginary assailants aren’t jewel…

At Least 10 Australians Imprisoned in China’s ‘Re-Education’ Camp

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Henry Jom January 23, 2019

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…

Beijing’s Mass Internment of Uyghurs

Uyghur NewsBy David Kilgour January 22, 2019

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…

Uyghur refugee tells of death and fear inside China’s Xinjiang camps

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Rebecca Wright January 21, 2019

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…

Detainees Are Trickling Out of Xinjiang’s Camps

Featured Articles, Uyghur NewsBy Gene A. Bunin January 18, 2019

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…