{"id":417,"date":"2021-04-21T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/?p=417"},"modified":"2021-04-21T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:22:39","slug":"wuc-booklet-on-violation-of-freedom-of-expression-in-east-turkestan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wuc-booklet-on-violation-of-freedom-of-expression-in-east-turkestan\/","title":{"rendered":"WUC BOOKLET ON VIOLATION OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN EAST TURKESTAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Posted on December 20, 2011, in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/category\/reports\/\">Reports<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/category\/reports\/world-uyghur-congress\/\">World Uyghur Congress<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-11-14-FINAL-Booklet-Freedom-of-Expression-East-Turkestan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WUC<\/a>,&nbsp;November 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-11-14-FINAL-Booklet-Freedom-of-Expression-East-Turkestan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Booklet-Freedom-of-Expression-208x300.jpg?resize=280%2C402\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12843\" title=\"Booklet Freedom of Expression\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The booklet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-11-14-FINAL-Booklet-Freedom-of-Expression-East-Turkestan.pdf\">Violation of Freedom of Expression in East Turkestan<\/a>&nbsp;published by the WUC in November 2011 provides an overview on the current status of freedom of expression for the Uyghur people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an introduction to the events of 5 July 2009 in Urumqi that lead to an increased crackdown on Uyghur freedom of expression, an overview on the Chinese legislation on freedom of expression, a description of the use of \u201cEndangering State Security\u201d (ESS) charges to silence peaceful Uyghur dissent, the current condition of freedom of speech and information in East Turkestan and China, and the effects of the \u201cJasmine Revolution\u201d on Uyghurs, the booklet provides summaries on the cases of some of the Uyghurs imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of expression, opinion, and speech. These cases include among others:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=9859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abdulghani Memetemin<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=10110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dilshat Perhat<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=10105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gheyret Niyaz<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=9898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gulmira Imin<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=9921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mehbube Ablesh<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=9878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Memetjan Abdulla<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=10901%20Ablikim%20Abdureyim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ablikim Abdureyim<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=10907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alim Abdureyim<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/?p=11689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tursunjan Hesen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The booklet can be downloaded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uyghurcongress.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-11-14-FINAL-Booklet-Freedom-of-Expression-East-Turkestan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on December 20, 2011, in&nbsp;Reports&nbsp;World Uyghur Congress WUC,&nbsp;November 2011 The booklet&nbsp;Violation of Freedom of Expression in East Turkestan&nbsp;published by the WUC in November 2011 provides an overview on the current status of freedom of expression for the Uyghur people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}