by admin_HRWF | Apr 15, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Paul Prososki Bitter Winter (08.04.2019) – https://bit.ly/2X6hOLU – Repeating the message “Never Again,” broad coalition rallies to stop cultural genocide in China, call for specific US government action. Remembering the Baren Massacre Saturday, April...
by admin_HRWF | May 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Matthew Brown The Uyghur American Association (17.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2qRuSFV – China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely Muslim region that’s been under a security...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 28, 2017 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Radio Free Asia (26.04.2017) – http://bit.ly/2oS34PR – Dozens of ethnic Uyghurs from a small village in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, including several sets of siblings, have been swept up in a recent crackdown on “illegal religious activities”...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 12, 2016 | Human Rights in the World
Democracy Digest (11.10.2016) – http://bit.ly/2dKA7l8 – A prominent Uighur scholar jailed in China after speaking out against repression in his native Xinjiang was named on Tuesday as the winner of a prestigious international human rights award for his...
by admin_HRWF | Oct 11, 2016 | Human Rights in the World
HRWF (11.10.2016) – Ilham Tohti, an intellectual belonging to the Uyghur ethnic minority in China, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014, is among the few candidates that have been shortlisted for the 2016 Sakharov Prize. Yesterday, on 10 October, MEP Ilhan...
