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US bill proposes expediting Uyghur asylum cases

4 weeks ago | globalsecurity.org | RFA Uyghur |John Pike

The bipartisan legislation would speed up cases of Uyghurs seeking to escape genocide in China. By RFA Uyghur 2025.03.26 WASHINGTON -- Twelve U.S. House representatives have introduced a bipartisan bill that would expedite the ability of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities facing persecution in China to seek asylum in the United States.
US officials mark East Turkestan National Day with Uyghur community

Nov 15, 2024 | rfa.org | RFA Uyghur

Read RFA coverage of this topic in Uyghur. U.S. lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington this week to mark “East Turkestan National Day,” the anniversary of two short-lived independent Uyghur states, pledging their support for Uyghurs facing persecution in northwestern China. Nov. 12 marks the founding of the two republics called East Turkestan in 1933 and in 1944 in what is now known as China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Lawmakers urge UN to protect 4 dozen Uyghurs detained for a decade in Thailand

Nov 14, 2024 | benarnews.org | RFA Uyghur

More than 50 lawmakers from around the world have called on the United Nations to secure the safety of 48 Uyghurs who have languished for more than a decade in detention in Thailand. Four dozen Uyghur men have been held at Thailand’s Immigration Detention Center (Suan Phlu) since 2014, after attempting to escape persecution in China through Thailand.
Lawmakers urge UN to protect 4 dozen Uyghurs detained for a decade in Thailand

Nov 13, 2024 | rfa.org | RFA Uyghur

More than 50 lawmakers from around the world have called on the United Nations to secure the safety of 48 Uyghurs who have languished for more than a decade in detention in Thailand. Four dozen Uyghur men have been held at Thailand’s Immigration Detention Center (Suan Phlu) since 2014, after attempting to escape persecution in China through Thailand.
Uyghur advocacy group to hold elections despite threats by China

Oct 23, 2024 | rfa.org | RFA Uyghur

The World Uyghur Congress will elect a new president and 34 other officials during its general assembly starting Thursday in Sarajevo, despite unprecedented harassment and threats from the Chinese government to disrupt the meeting. The harassment has scared off potential candidates for the leadership of the Uyghur advocacy organization, with only one person — Turghunjan Alawudun — running for president, said Dolkun Isa, who has been in the role since November 2017.
Condemned Uyghur official dies in prison in China’s Xinjiang region

Oct 22, 2024 | rfa.org | RFA Uyghur

Read RFA coverage of this topic in Uyghur.A Uyghur man who once served as a high-ranking government official in western China’s far-western Xinjiang region has died in prison four years after he was sentenced to death for “separatism” and “terrorism,” a prison official and a person with knowledge of the situation said. Shirzat Bawudun is a former deputy secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s Political and Legal Affairs Committee in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or XUAR.
Uyghur activists welcome Biden’s call to limit ‘de minimis’ exemption

Sep 16, 2024 | rfa.org | RFA Uyghur |Alex Willemyns

Uyghur activists have welcomed a proposal from U.S. President Joe Biden that would restrict the number of imports from China that can avoid customs checks, which critics have blamed for allowing goods made with Uyghur slave labor to be sold directly to Americans.
US officials call for release of detained retired Uyghur doctor

Sep 12, 2024 | rfa.org | RFA Uyghur

Family members and U.S. officials have called on China to release a retired Uyghur doctor abducted six years ago and later imprisoned in retaliation for the outspoken advocacy of her siblings abroad. Gulshan Abbas, now 62, was abducted by the Chinese Communist Party on Sept.
American drug firms accused of clinical trials in Uyghur region

Aug 21, 2024 | rfa.org | Alex Willemyns |RFA Uyghur

American pharmaceutical companies are carrying out drug trials in China’s far-western Xinjiang region, where the United States says a genocide of the Uyghur population is taking place, U.S. lawmakers say.
US blacklists five more Chinese firms over Uyghur slavery

Aug 13, 2024 | genocidewatch.com | Alex Willemyns |RFA Uyghur

By Alex Willemyns and RFA UyghurAugust 8, 2024The homepage of Rare Earth Magnesium Technology Group Holdings, Aug. 8, 2024. The United States has banned imports from five more Chinese companies accused of profiting from the slave labor of Uyghurs trapped in what Beijing calls “poverty alleviation” programs.