TAIPEI — Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has accepted an invitation to visit Taiwan, supporters said on Wednesday in a development handing the island's China-friendly government a political dilemma. If the Taiwan authorities grant a visa to Kadeer, they are likely to infuriate Beijing, which says ...
The fate of the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group living in China was under the spotlight in the Parliament this week. Monday (1 September) saw Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of the World Uyghur Congress address MEPs on the human rights sub-committee and call for dialogue with Beijing over what she termed ...
For many years, the plight of the ethnic minorities of East Turkistan (Xinjiang), the largest group being the Uyghurs, was almost entirely eclipsed by that of Tibet and its people, and it seems that it’s only because of recent violence and the Chinese regime’s propagandised threat of terrorism that ...
The family of an exiled Uyghur leader is evicted by authorities in China who plan to demolish their building. HONG KONG and WASHINGTON—The family home of prominent Uyghur exile leader Rebiya Kadeer in northwestern China has been slated for demolition and her family has been served with an eviction ...
KEVIN Rudd today strongly asserted Australia's right to determine who enters the country amid the fallout over the visit by a woman China regards as a terrorist. The Prime Minister defended the granting of a visa to Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, a decision Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has ...
Rebiya Kadeer, uncrowned leader of the Uyghur minority persecuted in China, says that the Chinese are "psychologically torturing" her children who have openly criticized her human rights campaign. The Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer has accused the Chinese government of "psychologically torturing" ...