The crowd welcomed NBA player
@EnesKanter
at the press conference in Washington DC.
#Tibetan
scarf and Uyghur Doppa were handed to Kanter at his arrival.
To support Uyghur people’s peaceful struggle for freedom and against China’s genocide of Uyghurs, over 50 British Muslim organisations held a demonstration Saturday 13th November in both London and Manchester, as part of a weekend of protests across the globe.
“There are things we can do to end forced labor. As a leader of the free world the US has responsibility to act and pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. Change is coming. Before we lose more of our loved ones to the CCP, let us do our part to end this!”
@jooeysiiu
“The
@TribunalUyghur
is satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the PRC, by the imposition of measure to prevent births intended to destroy a significant part of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as such has committed genocide.”-Uyghur Tribunal Judgement.
China has responded to revelations of mistreatment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang -- including extrajudicial internment in re-education camps, forcible migration, religious persecution and forced labor -- with strident official denials and heavy propaganda.
“Freedom is not free!
I am outspoken against the Turkish regime, my father is detained because of my activism. I can not go back to Turkey to see my family and my name is on Interpol.
So many innocent people like you also experiencing this too.”
NBA player
@EnesKanter
“How many more Uyghurs has to die before the world pays attention and save them from the camp?”
@OmerKanat1
of
@UyghurProject
speaks in front of the Thai Embassy in DC to call for release of Uyghurs from Thailand’s camp.
Uyghur activists and camp survivors gathered at Capitol Hill for a visual demonstration to demand the CCP to release their families from internment camps and for
#UNHRC
to release the report on Uyghurs.
@Uyghur_American
"During the 1 month of detention in Kashgar, I was constantly beaten up in hanging position, deprived of sleep, food and water. They used different methods of torture on me and after 1 month I was taken back to my home county." -Omer Rozi testimony.
@TribunalUyghur
Third time a charm?
Scores of high-level officials and experts from multiple countries have nominated jailed
#Uyghur
academic Ilham Tohti to receive the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Tohti, 53, was shortlisted for the Peace Prize in 2020 and 2023.
#IlhamTohti
#NobelPeacePrize
Uyghur community and Uyghur organizations such as Campaign for Uyghurs
@CUyghurs
, Uyghur American Association
@Uyghur_American
, Uyghur Human Rights Project
@UyghurProject
gathered in front of the White House to protest against the newly appointed Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng.
Two Muslim Uyghur sisters serving lengthy prison sentences for participating in religious gatherings in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region are being held in a women’s prison in the town of Sanji (in Chinese, Changji), detention center officials said.
Gulzire Alwuqanqizi, Kazakh nation who was taken to different camps and forced to work as a cleaner inside. She testified to her horrific experience in camp and what she had witnessed during her time in these camps.
@TribunalUyghur
"I think the more important question here is why can't any of us see what is happening there. And what we do have is a number of people who've been extraordinarily brave to come out and talk about their experiences knowing that their experiences are being erased by the minute."
The Paris City Hall light up in blue on the 88th and 77th anniversary of East Turkistan National Day.
As part of an international movement in support of Uyghurs, hashtag
#FreeUyghurs
was projected on the facade of the Town Hall.
More than 180 high-level officials and experts have nominated jailed Uyghur academic
#IlhamTohti
to receive the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his role as “the true symbol of the
#Uyghur
people's fight for freedom” under Chinese rule in Xinjiang.
The body of a Uyghur educator, researcher and poet who died in prison in Xinjiang in late August was taken by authorities directly to a cemetery for burial instead of first being returned to his family, a police officer and researcher said.
Uyghur, Tibetan and Hong Kongers youth activists began a continuous vigil at Lafayette Square outside the White House ahead of President Biden’s virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Rushan Abbas: "I love my father. But can you imagine? I am so grateful that he is not living in this world. Because if he was then he would have faced the same thing those millions of Uyghurs are facing in the dark dungeons of those concentration camps..."
#UyghurTribunal
“Uyghur people inside & outside of the country are all suffering!” Former internment camp survivor Tursunay Ziyawudun speaks of her horrific experience in China’s interment camps & urges the US and international community to put pressure on China to stop the ongoing genocide.
Elfidar Iltebir of
@Uyghur_American
speaks in front of White House during a rally co-hosted by Uyghur, Tibetan & Hong Kong activists ahead of Biden & Xi Summit on Monday.
“When the weather is like this I worry about my detained sister and millions of other Uyghurs arbitrarily detained in China’s internment camps. How are they doing in this winter? My sister is working as free slave labor. What is happening in my homeland is genocide!”
@Qelbinur10
An elderly Uyghur serving a nearly 14-year prison sentence in Xinjiang following his arrest in 2017 for studying religion as a child and for committing other religious “offenses” died of hypertension while in jail, a local police officer said.
Using Chinese official documents, academics and politicians arguments on Uyghurs, Dr.
@adrianzenz
shows new evidence to the
@TribunalUyghur
the CCP's state policy to "optimize the population structure" aims to destroy parts of the
#Uyghur
population.
Rep. Tom Suozzi
@RepTomSuozzi
Chairman of the Congressional Uyghur Caucus and a Commissioner of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China held a press conference with those impacted by the Chinese Communist Party’s crimes against humanity.
“My mother died in the hands of the CCP and my brothers are detained in prison. But this hasn’t stop me from my advocacy work. I want to thank all of you for supporting the Uyghur people.”
@Dolkun_Isa
remarks at the reception for policy makers leading the response to genocide.
A
#Uyghur
#Muslim
preacher serving a five-year sentence in China’s far-western
#Xinjiang
region for making a religious pilgrimage abroad died of liver cancer in prison in February, according to a police officer who works in the district.
#UyghurMuslims
Shemsinur Abdighafur Testimony:
"While I was working at Laskuy hospital in Hotan, I witnessed 20-30 abortions per week. Somedays 4 or 5 abortion per day some days 6 or 7 per day. It really depends on the day but the overall estimation is 30 abortions a week."
@TribunalUyghur
More than 70 countries supported China’s atrocities against
#Uyghurs
at the
#UN
last week.
They include most Islamic and Turkic countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran as well as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Palestine also supported China.
Uyghur community in Washington DC staged a demonstration on Friday February 26, in front of the Chinese Embassy demanding to know the condition of their arbitrarily detained family members in the concentration camps in Uyghur region.
#UyghurGenocide
#WhereIsMyFamily
The niece of prominent Uyghur scholar and linguist-in-exile Abduweli Ayup has been confirmed to have died while being investigated by state security police in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) Prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
“My father was a wise man. He was kind and decent. But now a man like him is serving a life sentence in a prison in the Uyghur region.”
@JewherIlham
speaks at Lafayette Square outside the White House ahead of President Biden’s virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“Workers in the Uyghur region can not speak freely to journalists.” Coalition to end force labor representative
@JewherIlham
speaks at the press conference hosted by
@Uyghur_American
Ella Morgan: I think you must use your voice. As I said before, I felt if I didn't speak up, then I would be complicit because I would be silent. I think silence is complicity, so I would say that people should engage with the issue on social media.
Members of the
#Uyghur
exile community and their supporters gather to mark International Human Rights Day in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022.
#HumanRightsDay
#UyghurGenocide
"The number of deaths may be more than 40," said a police officer at Janubiy (Xinhua) Road police station. "I was told there were many with heavy injuries in the hospital. We don’t have time to count the number of deaths."
#UrumqiFire
#Urumqi
#Uyghurs
Thrilled to witness
@Uyghur_American
's representation of the Uyghur community at ADAMS Ramadan Fest, celebrating rich Uyghur culture and raising awareness about the challenges endured by Uyghurs back home during Ramadan due to persecution.
Brussels Atomium light up in Uyghur blue colour with the hashtag
#FreeUyghurs
.
Brussels shows it’s support and raise public awareness of the situation of the Uyghurs.
#BrusselsAtomium
#FreeUyghur
Uyghur internment camp witnesses Gulbahar Heitwaji and Qalbinur Siddiq will hold a two-week testimony in Germany next month to call on the German government and German people to take action to stop the Uyghur genocide.
In a noteworthy achievement, the Alberta
#Uyghur
Association stood out at Canada's 2023 Heritage Festival. Securing the Cultural Pavilion Award in the 2023 Best Festivities category, the group made their second festival appearance a resounding success with a debut victory.
China's uncompromising
#zero_COVID
lockdown policies have caused starvation and death among the
#Uyghurs
of the
#Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region, where they have long endured extensive high-tech monitoring, repressive re-education policies and arbitrary incarceration …
An international team of scientists led by the World Health Organization arrived in Wuhan to research the origins of the coronavirus amid widespread suspicions that China is withholding or distorting evidence related to the initial outbreak of the global pandemic.
Qurban Mamut, a prominent
#Uyghur
journalist who went missing in November 2017 is serving 15 years in prison in northwestern China’s
#Xinjiang
region for “political crimes,” his son and authorities in the region told RFA.
#politicalprisoners
#Uyghurs
Helchem Pazil, 78, is serving a long jail sentence for participating in religious gatherings in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. She is being held in a women’s prison in the town of Sanji (in Chinese, Changji), detention center officials said.
Rahile Dawut, internationally recognized expert in Uyghur folklore and ethnographer, who disappeared in China’s Xinjiang region nearly six years ago has been confirmed as serving a life sentence for endangering state security.
#RahileDawut
Nursiman Abdureshid: "They have no any criminal record, but they still arrested with millions of Uyghurs. I really hope to the world listen us, and stopped this ongoing genocide as soon as possible. Because, they are not numbers, they are my parents, they are my brohters..."
UK MP
@Nus_Ghani
is also attending the retirement reception honoring Carl Gershman.
“My work has led me to sanctioned by the CCP. We have to stand up for the democracy!”
“Today, we haven’t come before the U.N. to beg High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet,” said WUC president Dolkun Isa
@Dolkun_Isa
. “We have come here to hold her accountable. She has the inescapable duty to stop China’s
#genocide
against
#Uyghurs
.”
While it’s been well documented that cotton production in China’s Xinjiang region is at high risk of using Uyghur forcedlabor, the Uyghur Human Rights Project has found that 20 percent of red dates in the global supply chain also are probably similarly tainted.
#UyghurForcedLabor
A Uyghur engineer in the United States has called on Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang region to release his 19-year-old sister, who was detained in December after posting a video relating to November’s "white paper" protests across China.
Leveraging the
#ofcourse
challenge on social media, a short video by three young
#Uyghur
women talking about their cultural identity and persecution facing their people in China has gone viral on TikTok and Instagram, with millions of views.
Outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC, Uyghur activists and Uyghur communities together commemorates the 34th anniversary of the Baren Uprising.
The U.S. repeated its call for Beijing to end efforts to prohibit political dissent by targeting members of emigre or diaspora communities, including attempts to silence Uyghur American activists and other
#Uyghurs
.
#UyghurGenocide
A court in Xinjiang sentenced five Muslim Uyghur women from one family to lengthy jail terms for “illegal” religious activities, according to a copy of the 2019 verdict recently obtained by RFA.
“I met Carl in 2005 & since then we have met in different places with different contacts. When I was detained in Korea & faced deportation back to China it was Carl who saved me. The entire
@UyghurCongress
thank you for your immense contribution to the Uyghur cause!”
@Dolkun_Isa
Rushan Abbas Testimony:
"I am happy that my father has passed away... is that a normal feeling?" "If he was alive he would be facing the same thing, worry about his daughter-my sister Dr.Gulshan Abbas"
@RushanAbbas
@CUyghurs
@TribunalUyghur
Uyghur, Tibetan and Hong Kongers activists began a continuous vigil at Lafayette Square outside the White House ahead of President Biden’s virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Uyghur Tribunal
@TribunalUyghur
second hearing will be broadcast through RFA Uyghur Service’s social media platforms.
Please follows the links below:
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Twitter:
“We have been telling the world that we want freedom and democracy just like you. But please the world, don’t pick the wrong side. Stand on our side.”
@wuerkaixi
General Secretary of Taiwan Parliament Human Rights Commission, speaks at the Lincoln Memorial demonstration today.
A Uyghur woman arrested in July by authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region for complaining about her son’s lengthy jail sentence is in detention, one of her relatives and a local police official said.
Uyghur community leaders in Canada asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau why his administration has not followed Canada’s parliament in recognizing the situation in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as genocide.
Uyghurs in Turkey worry about China’s dark hand
تۈركىيەدىكى ئۇيغۇرلار خىتاينىڭ قارا قولىدىن ئەندىشە قىلماقتا
#UyghurGenocide
#SaveUyghur
🔹 Illustration by
@YetteSu
RFA Uyghur called police stations near the site of the fire in
#Urumqi
and was given varying death tolls from the blaze. "Nine burned to death. More than a dozen died of suffocation, with a total is around 26," at Ittipaq Road station.
Ovalbek Turdakun, Kyrgyz Camp Survivor testified for the first time today at the press conference hosted by
@VoCommunism
at the Willard Hotel Washington,DC.
INTERVIEW: Uyghurs have always valued
#freedom
, academia and
#democracy
Lawmaker Arfiya Eri discusses political success, ethnic identity and Japan’s response to the genocide of the
#Uyghurs
.