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Former WUC President Dolkun Isa's brother sentenced to 20 years in China's
Updated : 1 year ago IST
At 63 years old, Yalkun was an educator at the Aksu Education Institute located in Aksu city, where numerous Uyghur instructors were detained in 2017 during a period characterized by mass arrests of Uyghur educators, entrepreneurs, and cultural figures under the pretext of re-education to co
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China still holding over 500,000 Uyghurs in detention, expanding forced la
Updated : 1 year ago IST
China continues to hold over half a million Uyghurs in prisons or detention facilities and has intensified its oppression of this ethnic group, contrary to Beijing's claims that the northwestern region of Xinjiang has returned to a state of normalcy, according to a report by Radio Free Asia
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Thailand deports detained Uyghurs to China despite human rights concerns
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The group, predominantly members of the primarily Muslim minority from China's Xinjiang, has been confined in Thailand's Immigration Detention Center since 2014, after attempting to flee Beijing's oppression by passing through Thailand, RFA reported.
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Over 20 Uyghur educators remain imprisoned in China since 2017 crackdown
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Over twenty Uyghur educators at a college in Xinjiang were detained by Chinese officials in 2017 and are still serving their sentences, according to college representatives in a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA).
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Uyghur activist condemns China's Tarim Basin drilling as colonialism and
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Rushan Abbas, Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs, has condemned China's recent announcement about completing the deepest vertical well in Asia, located in the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang.
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China tightens exit restrictions; Uyghurs and Tibetans face passport hurdl
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
According to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), Chinese authorities need people from areas they generally deem to be at high risk of online fraud or "illegal" emigration to provide extra documentation and receive approval from many government offices when applying for a passport.
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ETGE calls on Ireland to stand against China's genocidal and repressive
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has issued a powerful statement calling on the Irish government to take a stand against China's policies in Xinjiang.
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UN report exposes China's forced labour programs targeting Uyghurs, Tibeta
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Chinese authorities are transferring a large number of "surplus" rural workers to state-led labour programs throughout the nation in addition to using "vocational skills training and education centres" for forced labour in Xinjiang and Tibet, according to a recently published report by the U
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Uyghur activist leads London protest says 'No to China's Mega-Embassy, No
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Rights groups from Tibet, Uyghur, China, and Hong Kong organized the event, voicing worries that Beijing would use the embassy to spy on and threaten foreign-based dissidents, according to Radio Free Asia. About 4,000 demonstrators showed up to express their disapproval of China's plan to co
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Diplomacy, Defence and Cybersecurity take centre stage at Siang Dialogue 2
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Rajya Sabha MP Sujeet Kumar highlighted India's growing soft power and its active diplomatic initiatives. Abdulhakim Idris, Executive Director of the Centre for Uyghur Studies, focused on the human rights crisis in Xinjiang.
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"China's severe travel restrictions on Uyghurs violating international rig
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
The Chinese government is maintaining severe restrictions, conditions, and controls on Uyghurs who seek to travel abroad in violation of their internationally protected right to leave the country, the Human Rights Watch said in a report on Monday.
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Thai lawyer petitions court for release of Uyghurs detained for over decad
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Chuchart Kanpai, a Thai attorney, has petitioned for the release of 42 Uyghur men who have been detained in Thailand for over ten years. The men were arrested on immigration charges in 2013 while escaping alleged persecution in China. They are members of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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