Originally published by Middle East Eye on August 20, 2018 While learning the Quran as a kid, I was taught about the five pillars of Islam, including the pilgrimage to Mecca. Today, while I may be free to make this journey alongside millions of other Muslims, thousands of Uighurs have (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 17, 2018 Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained a prominent ethnic Uyghur philanthropist, his brother, and two of the brother’s business partners, according to a family member, who said they were targeted for their perceived ties to a (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by The News Lens on August 17, 2018 The world finally appears to be sitting up and taking notice of what United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination member Gay McDougall last week called ” a massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” That camp is (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by HKFP on August 13, 2018 Chinese state-run tabloid the Global Times said on Monday that “all measures can be tried” to safeguard stability in the Muslim region of Xinjiang. “We must hold onto our belief that keeping turmoil away from Xinjiang is the greatest human right,” it said. The (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by Al Jazeera on August 11, 2018 More than one million Uighur Muslims are estimated to be in detention in “counter-extremism centres” in China’s far west, the vice chairperson of a United Nations anti-discrimination committee has said, citing credible reports. Gay McDougall made the comments on Friday as the UN (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 6, 2018 As many as 6,000 residents of the mostly Uyghur-populated township of Haniqatam in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been held in political “re-education camps” for as long as two years, according to a local official. Beginning in April (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by Deutsche Welle on August 10, 2018 The grand mosque in remote northern China was slated to be demolished, according to local officials who said it had not been granted proper permits. A rare protest has been held to save the building. Local sources said a sit-in protest by (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by The Washington Post on August 10, 2018 ZHARKENT, Kazakhstan — First-of-its-kind courtroom testimony here has corroborated allegations that the Chinese government has built a network of internment camps in western China where Muslim minorities are held without charge for “reeducation.” Sayragul Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh Chinese national, said she crossed from China’s Xinjiang (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by Reuters on August 11, 2018 Geneva: A United Nations human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” Gay McDougall, a member of (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by News Corp Australia Network on August 12, 2018 CHINA could have more than one million people detained in what United Nations officials have described as a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy”. Many credible reports suggest that Uighurs and Muslim minorities have been forced into “political (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by The New York Times on August 10, 2018 GENEVA — United Nations human rights experts expressed alarm on Friday over what they said were many credible reports that China had detained a million or more ethnic Uighurs in the western region of Xinjiang and forced as many as (read more…)
Read more
Originally published by Radio Free Asia on August 9, 2018 More than 45,000 residents of a mostly Uyghur-populated county in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are being held in three main political “re-education camps,” according to a local official, who said the facilities are guarded by armed personnel. Beginning (read more…)
Read more