The daughter of jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti called on Wednesday for his immediate release from a Chinese prison, speaking on the sixth anniversary of his sentencing to a life term in prison for “separatism” for his advocacy for greater rights for the Uyghur people.
Tohti, a former professor of economics at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijin
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang region are forbidding practice by ethnic Uyghurs of the daily prayers required of observant Muslims, allowing only those 65 years of age and older to fulfill their religious obligations, sources say.
The move further tightens restrictions on Islamic practice that has already seen restrictions placed
Authorities in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have established a special, restricted-access “residential area” to relocate Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities released from internment camps, according to local officials.
Confirmation of the new facility in the southern XUAR’s Uyghur heartland comes amid indications
在美执业的维吾尔族律师热伊汗·艾塞提的弟弟艾克拜尔·艾塞提在2016年受邀来美国参加由美国国务院举办的国际访客领导力计划（IVLP），返国后却遭到拘捕，判刑15年。
这个事件引起了美国国务院，国会，国际组织以及全世界哈佛校友的密切关注，但是至今艾克拜尔·艾塞提依旧不知被关押在何处。
新疆七五事件11周年前夕，台湾年轻世代政治人物在一场记者会上声援维吾尔人权，并希望有更多的台湾民众站出来声援受到独裁政权迫害的人民。
台湾无党籍立委林昶佐在一场声援维吾尔人权的记者会上表示，台湾的民主运动一路走来，受到国际的支持、帮助，今天台湾有了民主自由之后，也应该加入国际社会帮助受到压迫的人。
Jewlan Shirmemet, a Uyghur who has lived in Turkey’s largest city Istanbul since 2008, had stayed silent about politics until around six months ago, when he began to speak out as part of a campaign to free his mother, Suriye Tursun, from arbitrary detention back home in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR)
Gulshan Abbas, a Uyghur doctor from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) who went missing after her Washington-based sister spoke out against Beijing’s policies in the region, has been confirmed detained nearly two years after her disappearance.
Authorities have upended the curriculum at one of the most respected Uyghur high schools in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), replacing Uyghur language instruction with that of Mandarin Chinese, as part of what the Uyghur diaspora says is a campaign to eradicate their culture in the region.
An ethnic Uzbek who was detained in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in 2018 and whose case was the subject of a recent United Nations inquiry was sentenced to 15 years in prison last month, according to official sources.
Aezimet Enver was detained in April 2018 after returning from Turkey the previous year, allegedly for having studied
China’s tightening curbs on media and speech freedoms compound the hardships of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where authorities stop at nothing to prevent reporting on the close to two million people who have disappeared into internment camps
星期三，华盛顿人权组织“维吾尔人权项目”警告说，新疆“再教育营”不佳的卫生条件，可能加速新冠病毒的传播，使疫情雪上加霜。
2月26号，华盛顿的“维吾尔人权项目”在新闻发布会上警告说
总部设在堪培拉的澳大利亚战略政策学会(ASPI)于三月一号发表的一份研究报告指出：中国当局把在新疆“再教育营”中关押的维吾尔族和其他少数民族的公民转移到全国各地