The European Parliament has named jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti as a finalist for a key human rights award in 2016, for “exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms.” Tohti, a former professor at the Central University for Nationalities in ...
The psychology behind global support for China’s South China Sea position: a desire to avoid war. The South China Sea arbitration case has elicited almost unanimous public opposition in China. Besides this, it has been reported that 66 countries worldwide have endorsed China’s position on the ...
On the sidelines of the G20 summit in China, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping set aside previous disagreements and agreed to deepen the two countries’ counter-terror cooperation. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Turkish counterpart ...
By Kunal Mukherjee for Canadian Military Journal (CMJ) Kunal Mukherjee believes that Mary Kaldor’s New Wars concept has considerable explanatory power, particularly in the case of China’s contested borderlands in Xinjiang and Tibet. These restive areas, after all, are marred by New War realities ...
Uighurs from China’s Xinjiang province accused Beijing of stepping up repression in the majority-Muslim region and vowed to end the Chinese “occupation” when they met near Paris this week. But not everybody present was convinced that the World Uighur Congress (WUC) is equipped to lead the Uighur ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAr4IYehG2s Uighur Muslims complain of cultural and religious suppression, along with economic marginalisation in China’s far western region of Xinjiang.For some, the only escape is to leave.Chinese government leaders accuse Uighur separatists of fomenting what ...
At least 17 Uyghurs have been detained in connection with a Sept. 10 explosion in the Chinese region of Xinjiang that killed a deputy police chief and seriously injured other officers raiding the home of suspected radicals, RFA learned on Monday. The blast in a village in Guma (In Chinese, ...
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region authorities will dispatch a total of 2,939 Uighur-speaking Chinese teachers to schools across inland China as part of a two-year “aid program” designed to provide “anti-separatism” education and promote unity among students in the primarily Muslim ...
Following reports of a stroke, a global guessing game has ensued, with observers uncertain as to the status of Uzbekistan’s president, Islam Karimov. While rumours of his death have been circulated by the opposition, the government has made no announcement one way or the other. Competing claims put ...
On 16 September 2016, the World Uyghur Congress along with International Campaign for Tibet and the Tibetan Community in Switzerland & Liechtenstein held a protest for freedom of religion, in front of the UN, in Geneva. The demonstration showed that the Muslim and Buddhist communities stand up ...