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Turkey abandons criticism of China's Xinjiang policies, cracks down on Uyg
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], March 8 (ANI): Turkey has abandoned its public criticism of China's Uyghur policies in recent years, and the Turkish government has begun cracking down on Uyghurs activists at home.
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Uyghur activist wins 2021 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Bavaria [Germany], March 2 (ANI): Sayragul Sauytbay, a human rights activist and survivor from China's Xinjiang, has been awarded the 2021 Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, for highlighting the human rights abuses being meted to ethnoreligious minorities in the country's western re
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Uyghur activist calls for help to end 'genocide' in China
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 19 (ANI): With the COVID-19 pandemic causing Uyghurs to be subjected to an even more brutal crackdown in China, a human rights activist called the world for help to end the 'genocide' against the community.
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China has brought modern-day slavery into 21st century: Uyghur activist on
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 3 (ANI): As the world celebrated the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, an Uyghur American activist, Rushan Abbas, on Wednesday pointed out that the "gruesome stain in humanity's history" is an ongoing issue as "China has brought modern-day slavery into
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UN should rely on Xinjiang informants if wants to properly investigate Chi
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Vancouver [Canada], November 25 (ANI): The Chinese government is a "perfect liar', said Uyghur activist Turnisa Matsedik-Qira, adding that if the United Nations wants to 'properly investigate' the atrocities against the Uyghur minority it should rely on informants in Xinjiang as Beijing w
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China's indoctrination of Uyghurs like 'holocaust', next generation will l
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Montreal [Canada], November 23 (ANI): Uyghurs in China are indoctrinated 24-hours a day in communist ideology and Chinese culture, and the next generation will lose the Uyghur language, said Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur activist, poet and linguist, in an interview with The Post Millennial.
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Tales of Uyghurs who disappeared overnight in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], November 11 (ANI): The US Holocaust Memorial Museum here has recorded the tales of several Uyghur living in exile after fleeing Chinese state-sponsored persecution in Western China province of Xinjiang. The horrifying tales of oppression told by those who were lucky to es
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Uyghur activist describes Chinese atrocities in Xinjiang: Women talk about
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 10 (ANI): Rushan Abbas, an Uyghur American activist, has disclosed the inhumane treatment meted out to Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang province by the Chinese regime, saying that women are subjected to mental and physical torture, and are given unknown injections, and me
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My family members were abducted after I became vocal about Uyghurs in Chin
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], October 18 (ANI): The situation in Xinjiang started deteriorating in 2017 when the Chinese government was holding one million people in detention camps and now the number has increased to 3 million, an Uyghur-American activist in an interview.
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Uyghur activist to discuss 'Persecution of Islam in East Turkestan' by Chi
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], October 5 (ANI): Continuing with the efforts to stop China violating human rights in the Xinjiang region, a webinar will be held on October 8 to dicuss the persecution of the Uyghurs.
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Uyghur activist protests outside Chinese Embassy in US on anniversary of s
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI): Rushan Abbas, an Uyghur American activist, staged a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in the United States on the second anniversary of her sister's detention in northwestern China's Xinjiang province.
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Uyghurs not seen as 'normal' by Chinese govt, says activist
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 19 (ANI): An Uyghur activist, who is based in the United States, has termed the persecution of the community in China's Xinjiang as a "genocide" and said the ethnic community is not seen as "normal" by Beijing.
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