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Campaign for Uyghurs urges global community to act against Uyghur genocide
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The Campaign for Uyghurs marks Holocaust Remembrance Day by drawing attention to the ongoing Uyghur genocide, urging the international community to take action against the Chinese Communist Party's brutal repression.
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Activists in Japan demand urgent action as detained Uyghurs in Thailand fa
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The group urged Japan and the international community to take immediate action to prevent their deportation to China, where they risk facing severe persecution, torture, and even death.
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Calls for justice intensify over imprisonment of Uyghur-language website f
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
On the birthday of Ekpar Asat, the founder of the Uyghur-language website Baghdax, his sister Rayhan E Asat, a human rights lawyer, renewed calls for his release, highlighting the continued injustice he faces in Chinese detention camps.
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Uyghur leader calls for consumer awareness to avoid unintentional support
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
The Chairperson of the World Uyghur Congress, Rushan Abbas, has called for ongoing action to ensure that all supply chains are free from complicity in human rights abuses. She emphasised the need to protect American consumers from inadvertently supporting the genocide of the Uyghur people
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New leadership elected at World Uyghur Congress amidst ongoing struggles a
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Rushan Abbas has been appointed as the new Chairperson, assuming a role that she describes as both an honour and a profound duty to serve her people.
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'Campaign for Uyghur' calls for global accountability for China's human ri
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
On the fifth annual International Day of Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, Campaign for Uyghur's Founder and Executive Director, Rushan Abbas took part in a webinar entitled "Prisoners of Conscience: Violence and Detention and Violence in Detention.
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UN Special Rapporteurs call on China over maintaining 'secrecy' on impriso
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
A panel of UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights wrote a letter to the Chinese authorities expressing serious concerns at the conviction and imprisonment of Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas without due process and not even informing her family on her whereabouts.
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Uyghur activist urges UN to act against China's "crimes" in Xinjiang
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 2 (ANI): As China's "crime against humanity" in Xinjiang lay exposed in the recent UN report, Rushan Abbas, an Uyghur American activist hoped that the U.N. will use its influence and position to advocate for the freedom of all the innocent Uyghurs.
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Nobel-nominated activist Rushan Abbas calls on UN to address China's 'crim
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 8 (ANI): At the 14th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, Nobel-nominated activist and sister to detained Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas, Rushan Abbas, called on the UN to address China's 'crimes' against the Uyghurs.
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"You can't silence me, where is my sister", Uyghur activist asks China
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], November 16 (ANI): An Uyghur activist, whose sister has been detained by the Chinese regime in Xinjiang province, highlighted the deplorable condition of Uyghurs Muslims in the province and said she will continue to raise the issue on the global stage.
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Rights body remembers Uyghur activist's sister who disappeared in China
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): US-based rights group Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU) marked three years since the disappearance of Uyghur Muslim Dr Gulshan Abbas, the sister of the group's Executive Director Rushan Abbas in China.
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Activist urges Biden to fight for all enslaved Uyghurs
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 26 (ANI): Rushan Abbas, founder and executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU), has urged US President Joe Biden and his administration must fight for all enslaved Uyghurs, adding that the freedom of the democratic world is at stake.
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