Author: DUK Vakfı

Amnesty International. 22 September 2021

Below is an article published by Amnesty International. Photo:AFP.

Idris Hasan has been detained at China’s request for two months

“I fear that if my husband is sent back to China, I will never see him again” – Zaynura Hasan

The Moroccan authorities must not transfer Idris Hasan, an ethnic Uyghur who was detained in the country, to China where he is at risk of torture, Amnesty International said ahead of his extradition hearing tomorrow (Wednesday 22 September).

Politco. 22 September 2021

Below is an article published by Politco. Photo:AFP.

Lithuania’s Defense Ministry advised against purchasing Chinese mobile phones and recommended that people discard any they might have now following a government report that censorship abilities had been installed in the phones.

Sight Magazine. 20 September 2021

Below is an article published by Sight Magazine. Photo:An artist’s image of Dr Gulshan Abbas.

On 10th September, 2018, the family of retired Uighur doctor Gulshan Abbas lost contact with her after she disappeared from her residence in Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). For years their desperate search for answers was met with silence, with last week marking the third anniversary of her disappearance.

In December, 2020, her family learned that she had been sentenced to 20 years in prison on unfounded charges of terrorist activities. In a telling indicator of the challenges faced in getting information out of the region, the trial had actually taken place in secret in March, 2019, a full 21 months before Dr Abbas’ family learned of its outcome.

RFA. 20 September 2021

Below is an article published by RFA. Photo:Reuters.

Dolkun Isa, the president of the Munich-based (WUC) exile group, has been turned away at the airport in the Turkish capital Ankara and flown back to Germany Monday, two weeks after he learned that a travel ban against him had been lifted, he and his lawyer said.

RFA. 17 September 2021

Below is an article published by RFA. Photo:Video screenshot courtesy of Uyghur Tribunal.

China’s top policy, legislative and advisory bodies were closely involved in the creation of the “Re-Education Internment Campaign” in Xinjiang that has sent some 1.8 million Uyghurs to detention camps and drawn genocide accusations against Beijing, according to a new report by a leading expert on the camp system.

Reuters. 16 September 2021

Below is an article published by Reuters. Photo:REUTERS/Denis Balibouse.

A U.S.-backed Uyghur photo exhibit of dozens of people who are missing or alleged to be held in Chinese-run camps in Xinjiang, China opened in Switzerland on Thursday amid high tensions over human rights between Beijing and Washington.

RFA. 13 September 2021

Below is an article published by RFA. Photo:Video screenshot courtesy of Uyghur Tribunal.

The final round of a tribunal investigating whether China’s treatment of its ethnic Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims constitutes genocide ended in London Monday after four days of hearings and testimony provided by nearly 40 witnesses and experts, with a nonbinding verdict expected at the end of the year.

AlJazeera. 8 September 2021

Below is an article published by AlJazeera. Photo:Reuters/Thomas Peter.

Over the past two decades, the crisis in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has drastically worsened. This has much to do with the major expansion after 2001 of repressive measures directed at suppressing dissent among Uighurs, dressed in the rhetoric of anti-terrorism.

The Liberty Web. 9 September 2021

Below is an article published by The Liberty Web. Photo:AFP.

A major focus of this year’s International Religious Freedom Summit was the issue of genocide against the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The Liberty spoke with a Uyghur lawyer and a speaker of this year’s Summit.

RFA. 8 September 2021

Below is the article published by RFA. Photo:Reuters.

A Uyghur man living in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was sent to an internment camp four years ago for the crime of speaking to relatives overseas, contradicting Chinese claims that Uyghur residents of the region are free to keep in touch with family members abroad, RFA has learned.