We hebben afgelopen jaar waarschijnlijk de verschrikkelijke beelden gezien van Oeigoerse gevangenen die vastgeketend en kaalgeschoren op de grond, op transport werden gezet naar een van de vele concentratiekampen in China. Hoe heeft het zo ver kunnen komen? De Oeigoeren zijn een etnische minderheid in China die in het uiterste westen van het land leven…
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Op zaterdag 21 december vond in Zeist het 2e evenement van de Een nuttige dag plaats. Dit keer met een side-event om de Oeigoerse cultuur en geschiedenis te introduceren aan de lokalen. Het was inderdaad een nuttige dag geweest. Graag willen wij Wijkgericht Werken en Meander Omnium bedanken voor de samenwerking. Verder wensen wij iedereen…
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Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The US House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday demanding a tougher response from the Trump administration over reports of mass detention centers run by the Chinese government in Xinjiang. The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which still needs to gain approval from the US Senate, calls for concrete measures to be taken against Beijing over allegations…
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‘I KNEW I HAD TO SAY SOMETHING, PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.’ Feroza Aziz tells MTV News. You can learn a lot from makeup tutorials — how to blend your contour, put on the perfect cat eye, or even, if you’re watching17-year-old Feroza Aziz, learn about the genocide against Uyghur Muslims in China. On Saturday (November…
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![Police patrolling in a night food market near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a day before the Eid al-Fitr holiday [JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images]](https://freeuyghur.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/image-1318819-860_poster_16x9-dfgi-1318819-e1562958801880.jpg)
Leaked documents dubbed the “China cables” have revealed details of how the country runs its high-security prison camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang province. China has long come under criticism for human rights abuses and its policy of rounding up Uyghur Muslims and detaining them in internment camps. The leaked documents include a nine-page memo sent out in…
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De Oeigoerse voetballers douchen na de wedstrijd steeds vaker mee. Een teken van hun integratie, volgens hun Nederlandse clubgenoten. In hun provincie in China worden de Oeigoeren onderdrukt, in Castricum vond een aantal van hen een nieuw leven. Bij FC Castricum gaat het niet elke dag zo. Kleurrijke kleding, oosterse muziek en de geur van…
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No one outside the Chinese government knows where Tashpolat Tiyip is. No one knows exactly what charges have been filed against him. The only thing that anyone really knows is that in April 2017, as the geographer and former president of Xinjiang University in Ürümqi prepared to fly from Beijing to Berlin for a scientific…
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The “bilingual” education system introduced over the past decade in Xinjiang is better characterized as an attempt to transform minority education systems in the region. There have been frightening consequences for Uyghur culture. The “bilingual” education system introduced over the past decade in Xinjiang is better characterized as an attempt to transform minority education systems in the region. There…
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A few days ago, Google Project Zero security researchers detailed a chain of malicious website exploits targeting iPhone users. Now, TechCrunch reports that the Chinese government used these attacks to target Uyghur Muslims.