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From annexation to surveillance: WUC condemns China's 76-year war on Uyghu
Updated : 6 months, 4 weeks ago IST
To mark the occasion, the WUC hosted an event at the European Parliament, led by MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk, tracing the systematic erosion of Uyghur rights and exposing China's empty promises of autonomy under the XUAR framework.
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World unites against China's brutal campaign to erase Uyghur identity and
Updated : 8 months ago IST
The report also documented the death of 96-year-old Imam Abidin Damollam in prison while serving a nine-year term. USCIRF further noted the persecution of Uyghur women such as Tursungul Ghopur and Heyrinisa Memet, who were imprisoned for teaching religion and culture, calling it part of Beij
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World Uyghur Congress strengthens worldwide advocacy to expose China's atr
Updated : 8 months ago IST
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has released its weekly brief, highlighting its intensified global advocacy efforts through missions in Turkiye, Geneva, and Italy, alongside active youth participation and international media outreach.
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WUC concludes III Uyghur National and Youth Summits in Munich with strong
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The summit attracted over 150 attendees, comprising more than 50 Uyghur organisations, leaders, human rights advocates, community representatives, youth activists, academics, and politicians from over 22 nations, aimed at furthering the shared fight for freedom, justice, and the safeguarding
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CFU backs Uyghur Human Rights Bill to aid refugees fleeing persecution
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Campaign for Uyghurs (CFU) expresses its support for the reintroduction of the Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act, a critical and timely bipartisan piece of legislation that aims to provide Priority 2 (P-2) refugee status to Uyghurs escaping persecution.
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World Uyghur Congress condemns China's restriction on Uyghur mobility righ
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
In the press release on February 4, WUC mentioned that while Beijing maintains that the region has "normalized," evidence points to the opposite, and "mass surveillance, arbitrary restrictions, and the weaponisation of passports are part of a deliberate strategy to suppress Uyghur identity a
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Uyghur entrepreneur faces hotel room rejection in China due to ethnicity
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
A young Uyghur entrepreneur recently revealed the discrimination he encountered while trying to search for a hotel room in Taiyuan, mainland China in a post shared by the World Uyghur Congress on X. Despite the cold winter, several hotels refused to accommodate him simply because of his Uyg
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Human rights activist exposes Chinese oppression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang at
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
In his intervention Fujiki outlined China's efforts to erase the unique Uyghur identity and culture, citing mass detentions in "vocational training centers" that serve as de facto internment camps.
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Uyghur woman in jail for over 2 decades for sending children to religious
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For over two decades, Uyghur woman, Ayshemhan Abdulla, has been serving sentence in jail for sending her three teenage children to a local home-based religious school, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported.
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