Geolocating Explosive Growth in Preschools in Western China due to ‘re-education’ Policies

Authors from RAND: Katherine Pfrommer and Ed Burkehttps://www.tearline.mil/public_page/geolocation-detention-facilities-part1/?fbclid=IwAR05kzOZg6tdWwHnESwpPyxxlYbkrat2BJRxEdXxxwvD9VSfCgwRLK5yl1g Overview Twenty facilities that imagery analysis, press and professional journals suggest house Uighur children have been identified in this first study of geolocating China’s detention infrastructure targeting Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups. …

For Uyghurs, “Poverty Alleviation” Means Cultural Genocide

Sat, May 2, 2020https://bitterwinter.org/for-uyghurs-poverty-alleviation-means-cultural-genocide/?fbclid=IwAR0FaUc3WfreGY2FW7VjIZGk6ey4JJsRmoQFrmSehwnjYrgo86N1oj4tnWk Scholar Adrian Zenz exposes how what is advertised as an anti-poverty program in Xinjiang is in fact just another tool to deprive Uyghurs of their identity and coerce them into slave labor. by Ruth Ingram Zenz …

https://www.ushmm.org/genocide-prevention/countries/china?fbclid=IwAR0bZ66_Ko1mcT497DgQHklHSXEydN7kaCiMDAbemsLCvQYE9Eq_cfl63OE The Uyghur community is a Turkic Muslim group of approximately 11 million people who live predominantly in the province of Xinjiang, in western China. The Chinese government has persecuted Uyghurs for decades, but in recent years it has escalated …

URGENT ACTION: FEARS OF IMPRISONMENT FOR MISSING KAZAKH WRITER (CHINA: UA 63.20)

https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/urgent-action-fears-of-imprisonment-for-missing-kazakh-writer-china-ua-63-20/?fbclid=IwAR1odU-rJWWy9jJHRh6sefjzHAfAKtjLm-UbFFTKiaf4hIu64eEE9T8XRpg Kazakh writer Nagyz Muhammed was arrested in March 2018 in Xinjiang, China, after his last visit to Kazakhstan. His family learned through word of mouth that, due to a dinner he had with friends on Kazakhstan Independence Day about …

Three Years of Mass Internment in Xinjiang Lead to Diplomatic Woes For China

2020-04-30https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/woes-04302020160528.html?fbclid=IwAR1W98NwtqtFaN-zamqjx1RbTo9MSitFP0llP-XH1pRA7ngUqo1AfXqDbqE Three years after its launch, a campaign of mass incarceration of Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has become a diplomatic headache for China, particularly in its relations with the West, but observers say a more coordinated …

Authorities Detain Uyghur Editor-in-Chief, Directors of Xinjiang Daily Newspaper

2018-09-05https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/daily-09052018150310.html?fbclid=IwAR0hz58Ia_Fk2L3ZTJ8w0sVTh8snV-1rkSt9qYEeIZjadWguj-c-SC5neBE Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have arrested the Uyghur deputy editor-in-chief and three Uyghur directors of the Xinjiang Daily accused of being “two-faced” officials, according to sources from the state-run newspaper. Ilham Weli, the Xinjiang Daily’s deputy editor-in-chief and …

Two women decorate a grave in a Uyghur graveyard on the outskirts of Hotan in China's northwest Xinjiang region, May 31, 2019.

Xinjiang Authorities Construct Parking Lot Atop Historic Uyghur Cemetery

2020-05-01https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/cemetery-05012020134504.html?fbclid=IwAR1X3qQGnu0byX9d0DnWFuPnOvDT0wEOJ5EAvhQAqIHdFWwOLaJ0UAv_aM0 A cemetery considered sacred by Uyghurs that was razed by authorities last year in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has been paved over and turned into a car park, according to an expert on Uyghur history. “Last …

A protest against the CCP’s suppression of Uyghurs. (by Dilxat Raxit from RFA)

Xinjiang Students Mandated to Love CCP, Resist ‘US Interference’

Sat, May 2, 2020https://bitterwinter.org/xinjiang-students-mandated-to-love-ccp-resist-us-interference/?fbclid=IwAR25rq3-aLoA_4_E_2x9VJGnKVpK2ngjNFh3FMXYW_BccNpB7v2V_4tLER0 Universities hold allegiance ceremonies for teachers and students, make them criticize countries that raise concerns over the mistreatment of Uyghurs. by Chang Xin A student from inland China who is studying at a university in Xinjiang …

Gulmira Imin is shown in an undated photo.

HOME | NEWS | UYGHUR ‘Gulmira Imin Must Not be Forgotten’

2018-02-16https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/forgotten-02162018163053.html?fbclid=IwAR0o3jCFkquR5wJU2dkPtgcUlMjxo2amN1Dr24IORTu4pKTKiBOtvKwLKgM Gulmira Imin, a former government employee and administrator of the Uyghur-language Salkin web site in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, is now nearing the start of her eighth year of a life sentence in prison following her conviction on …