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Feb52019

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…

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Feb42019

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…

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Feb42019

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…

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Feb22019

Inside the Transfer of Xinjiang Muslims

Human Rights in ChinaBy Zhou Xiaolu February 2, 2019

Exclusive new details have emerged about the transfer of Uyghur detainees outside Xinjiang (East Turkistan), and the conditions inside the prisons warehousing them for re-education. Bitter Winter has once again received exclusive news about Muslims being transferred to Shaanxi and Gansu. The prisons in these two provinces where Muslims are received and detained have also been…

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Jan302019

Breakingviews – Xinjiang is an extreme case of China’s growth woes

Human Rights in ChinaBy Pete Sweeney January 30, 2019

Ethnic Uighur people walk in front of a giant screen with a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping in the main city square in Kashgar in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uighur Autonomous Region, China September 6, 2018. The screen broadcasts a slideshow of images of Xi on loop, including propaganda images of his previous visit to…

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Jan302019

US Lawmakers Nominate Jailed Uyghur Academic Ilham Tohti to Receive Nobel Peace Prize

Human Rights in ChinaBy Alim Seytoff January 30, 2019

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…

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Jan302019

High time for a resolution calling for access, accountability in China

Human Rights in ChinaBy ISHR January 30, 2019

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…

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Jan292019

EU team visits China’s Xinjiang region to gather evidence on re-education camps

Human Rights in ChinaBy Staff January 29, 2019

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…

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