Prominent Uyghur Activist Dies Days After...

As a cofounder of the Students Cultural Scientist Union at Xinjiang University along with WUC President Dolkun Isa, Ababekri organized a June 1988 student protest in reaction to Chinese discrimination against Uyghurs, which also called for an end to nuclear tests in the XUAR, democratic elections, and the halt of mass migration of majority Han Chinese to the region, the WUC said in a statement on Nov. 27

Expert Says 1.8 Million Uyghurs, Muslim...

Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in as many as 1,300 to 1,400 internment camps, one of the world’s foremost experts on mass incarcerations in the region said in a paper released Sunday

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About 250 Islamic State fighters have surrendered to Afghan security forces in eastern Nangarhar province, a traditional IS stronghold. Dozens of women and children have surrendered as well. Officials told VOA they would work toward deradicalizing those of Afghan origin and eventually would unite them with their families…Gulmira Imin is a Uighur Muslim imprisoned for life by the Chinese government

Xinjiang ‘Pair Up’ Campaign Highlights Power...

Since late 2017, Muslim—and particularly Uyghur—families in the XUAR have been required to invite officials into their homes and provide them with information about their lives and political views, going back as far as seven generations, while hosts are also subjected to political indoctrination

Xinjiang Authorities Arrest Prominent Uyghurs in...

The public arrests of prominent Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities is part of a bid by authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) to instill fear in the local population, according to Uyghur sources in exile

Male Chinese ‘Relatives’ Assigned to Uyghur...

Since late 2017, Muslim—and particularly Uyghur—families in the XUAR have been required to invite officials into their homes and provide them with information about their lives and political views, while hosts are also subjected to political indoctrination

Female Detainees at Xinjiang Internment Camps...

Tursunay Ziyawudun, a 41-year-old Uyghur woman from Kunes (Xinyuan) county, in the XUAR’s Ili Kazakh (Yili Hasake) Autonomous Prefecture, spent a total of nine months at one of the region’s vast network of camps, where authorities have held up to 1.5 million Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” ideas beginning in April 2017

Police Officer Beat Uyghur Internment Camp...

A young Uyghur man who authorities claimed had suffered a fatal heart attack while held in an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was in fact beaten to death by an inebriated police officer, according to sources.

Uyghur Man Taken Into Custody in...

Beginning in early July 2017, more than 200 Uyghurs, many of them religious students at Al-Azhar, were detained in Egypt after being rounded up in restaurants or at their homes, with others seized at airports as they tried to flee to safer countries, sources said in earlier reports

Jailed Uyghur Scholar Ilham Tohti Awarded...

The European Parliament on Thursday awarded jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti with the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for “exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms,” calling on Beijing to set him free. Tohti, a former professor of economics at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, was sentenced to …

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