Guligeina Tashimaimaiti, a Uighur Ph.D. student, writer and scholar returned from a trip to Malaysia on December 26, 2017 and her family has not seen nor heard from her since. CCS has written the Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region requesting her release and her safety. July 7, 2018 Chen Quanguo Party Secretary…
DetailsIntroduction The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long viewed the lands of Xinjiang as vital to its strategic interests. The region provides natural resources, and space for China to test nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles far from the prying eyes of the West. Xinjiang has historically been a buffer zone between Russia and the People’s…
DetailsEverything was going smoothly for Guligeina Tashimaimaiti, a young, dedicated and charismatic student. She had just finished her master’s thesis at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (University of Technology, Malaysia, or UTM), and her PhD application had just been accepted by the university. A brilliant student, she was to graduate with honours – only, she failed…
DetailsMugshots of Uighur dissidents from China who escaped from Thailand, as released by Thai police last year. A court will decide on their fate today. (Bernama pic) Klang MP says the Uighurs are at risk of persecution, life imprisonment, and torture if returned to China. PETALING JAYA: Klang MP Charles Santiago has urged the…
DetailsIn the aftermath of unrest in Urumchi on July 5, 2009, Chinese security forces conducted sweeps of Uyghur neighborhoods in the city arbitrarily detaining Uyghur males. A number of these individuals were forcibly disappeared and to date their whereabouts remain unknown. Nine years since the unrest, Chinese authorities are enforcing the mass incarceration of Uyghurs in…
DetailsAn ethnic Uyghur woman on crutches protests in front of a line of paramilitary police in Urumchi, in China’s Xinjiang region, July 7, 2009. Thursday marks the ninth anniversary of a crackdown amid ethnic tensions between Han Chinese and minority Muslim Uyghurs that left hundreds dead and thousands more injured in Urumchi, the capital of…
DetailsThings are going from bad to potentially far worse in China’s western region of Xinjiang. BEIJING HAS BEGUN SETTING UP CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR OVER A MILLION MEMBERS OF ITS MINORITY UYGHUR POPULATION. CREDIT: GETTY / EMMANUEL DUNAND In China’s remote western province of Xinjiang, the Chinese government has begun constructing a series of internment…
DetailsMany of those detained are Muslim Uyghurs and Kazakhs accused of ‘incorrect thinking’ in the midst of a campaign that has treated what authorities consider ‘radical tendencies’ as a public-health crisis that must be expunged Authorities in China’s far western Xinjiang province have made loyalty to President Xi Jinping a central part of an extensive political…
DetailsThe recently deceased mother of Dolkun Isa, the president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) exile group, died while in detention at a “political re-education camp” in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to security officials. Last month, Isa learned from a close family friend that his mother, Ayhan Memet, died on…
DetailsA Uyghur woman carries a toddler as children play near a cage protecting Chinese paramilitary policemen on duty in Urumqi, May 1, 2014. Dozens of Uyghur children from a mostly Uyghur-populated village in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) whose parents or guardians have been detained in “political re-education camps” have been sent to…
DetailsAn SFMOMA exhibit on a persecuted minority challenges photojournalism’s emphasis on separation between artist and subject. Like other geographically remote areas — central Congo, eastern Yemen, and eastern Myanmar — China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regioncycles through the news because of one thing: bloodshed. China’s conflict stems from the government’s repression of the region’s majority-Muslim people known…
DetailsAn ongoing terror crackdown in Xinjiang, launched in May 2014 in response to escalating violence and subsequently extended, has mostly targeted the region’s Uyghur ethnic minority. Rights advocates and overseas Uyghur exile groups have blamed the increasingly harsh and apparently indefinite campaign for exacerbating ethnic tensions and further destabilizing the region. The crackdown has included religious fasting bans, local and region-wide rules against “extremist behavior” including wearing veils or beards, a ban on “extreme”…
DetailsPolice officers on duty in the vicinity of a center believed to be used for re-education in Korla city, Xinjiang, Nov. 2, 2017. More than ten percent of the inhabitants of a mostly Uyghur-populated township in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been jailed or are detained in “political re-education camps,” according to…
DetailsIn this episode, CJ speaks with a Uyghur Muslim refugee, who asks only to be indentified as Mark. At this moment he’s in Australia desperately trying to be reunited with his wife and 9month old baby whom both remain in China. Worse – his wife is facing 5 years in prison for simply being a…
DetailsHost, Tariq El-Amin is joined in studio by Dr. Timothy Grose, an assistant Professor of China Studies from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana to discuss the Uyghur (pronounced We-gor) Muslims of China, an ethnic minority of Turkic descent who have been forcibly detained–in what amounts to internment camps designed to strip them…
DetailsMore than 70 religious leaders from Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region attended a four-month training in Beijing, vowing to introduce the experience of sinicizing Islam to the region troubled by religious extremists. The session included courses and site visits to cities like Quanzhou in East China’s Fujian Province and Qufu in East China’s Shandong Province, China…
DetailsAn elderly Uyghur man prepares to get his beard massaged at a barber shop in the city of Aksu, July 17, 2014. AP Photo More than two dozen Uyghurs have died in “political re-education camps” in one county of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to officials from the area, who said most…
DetailsThe hands of a Muslim, who was released by Chinese authorities, are shown on June 26, 2018. Photo courtesy of China Aid Association Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang are detaining Muslim ethnic minorities en masse and subjecting them to torture and brainwashing to honor the ruling Chinese Communist Party and renounce the…
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