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EXPLAINED: What’s the controversy over ‘Uygur’ vs ‘Uyghur’?

Sep 10, 2024 | rfa.org | Kurban Niyaz

Read RFA’s coverage of this topic in Uyghur.
‘People’s court’ issues arrest warrant for Xi Jinping

Jul 15, 2024 | rfa.org | Mihray Abdilim |Jilil Kashgary |Kurban Niyaz |Mamatjan Juma

A citizens’ tribunal has issued a symbolic arrest warrant for Chinese President Xi Jinping after issuing a nonbinding verdict that he committed crimes of aggression against Taiwan, crimes against humanity in Tibet, and genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
INTERVIEW: Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz takes up the cause of Uyghurs

Jun 14, 2024 | rfa.org | Kurban Niyaz

Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, an influential Jewish social activist, educator and author of books on Jewish ethics, has spoken out on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border and Afghan refugees. Now the rabbi has taken up the cause of the cultural genocide of the nearly 12 million predominantly Muslim Uyghurs in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, whose religion, language and customs are being wiped out by Beijing.
Interfaith conference seeks to raise awareness about Uyghur genocide

Apr 18, 2024 | rfa.org | Mamatjan Juma |Kurban Niyaz

The hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs subjected by China to detention, forced labor and cultural erasure underscores the urgency for global action, panelists said at a two-day interfaith conference on disrupting Uyghur genocide organized by The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity that wrapped up Thursday.
China says 456,000 Uyghurs newly hired this year in Xinjiang

Jan 2, 2024 | rfa.org | Kurban Niyaz

China says that 456,000 people were newly employed during the first 10 months of the year in its far-western Xinjiang region, evidence it said showed that Beijing was successfully promoting economic development to create a “happy and harmonious” Uyghur society. Authorities are seeking “full employment” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or XUAR, as a key economic strategy to alleviate poverty, the Chinese-controlled Tengritagh Network said on Dec. 25.
Palestinian leader supports China’s Uyghur policies in joint statement

Jun 15, 2023 | rfa.org | Kurban Niyaz

During his visit this week to China, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced support for China’s policies in the far western region of Xinjiang, where the United Nations has found credible patterns of torture and ill treatment against the mostly Muslim Uyghurs living there.
European Commission chief’s comments on Uyghurs fall short of expectations

Apr 7, 2023 | rfa.org | Kurban Niyaz |Mamatjan Juma

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen discussed human rights issues with China’s Xi Jinping during a high-level meeting on Thursday in Beijing, a rare move for European leaders who usually avoid the topic when they visit the Chinese capital for talks.
World Uyghur Congress nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Mar 8, 2023 | rfa.org | Kurban Niyaz |Alim Seytoff

The World Uyghur Congress has been nominated by parliamentarians from Canada and Norway for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for its contributions to human rights and shedding light on Chinese repression of the Uyghur people in the far western region of Xinjiang. It’s the first time the Germany-based group has been nominated for the prestigious prize.
Lawmakers, rights groups condemn Xinjiang official’s possible visit to Europe

Feb 10, 2023 | rfa.org | Kurban Niyaz

European parliamentarians and human rights groups have strongly objected to a visit to the United Kingdom and Europe Union next week by the China-installed Uyghur leader of Xinjiang, saying that he has played a key role in the persecution of the mostly Muslim minority group.