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WION. 26 September 2021

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

Human rights activists on Thursday called on China to release an Uyghur scholar, who was sentenced seven years ago to life in prison for “separatism,” for raising his voice against discrimination against Uyghurs in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, according to a media report.

The New York Times. 23 September 2021

Below is an article published by The New York Times. Photo:Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times.

Ibrahim’s parents fled political turmoil in China for Afghanistan more than 50 years ago. At that time, Mao Zedong had unleashed the Cultural Revolution, and life was upended for many Uyghurs, the mostly Muslim ethnic group in Xinjiang that included Ibrahim’s parents.

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.