Shohret Hoshur

Featured in: Favicon

rfa.org

taipeitimes.com Favicon

globalvoices.org Favicon

benarnews.org Favicon

newsgram.com Favicon

newageislam.com Favicon

radiofree.org

Articles

China expands orphanage-style boarding schools for Uyghur children

Jan 16, 2025 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur

Read RFA coverage of this story in Uyghur. Orphanage-style boarding schools for Uyghur children whose parents were detained by Xinjiang authorities in internment camps that began in 2017, remain open and are expanding in certain areas, police and teachers with knowledge of the situation said. The development comes despite claims by the Chinese government that it shut down the “re-education camps,” in which an estimated 1.8 million Uyghurs have been held.
Seylihan Rozi, an Uyghur Woman Sentenced To 17 Years For Teaching Islam To Her Kids And A Neighbour

Jan 11, 2025 | newageislam.com | Shohret Hoshur |Susan Nzomo |Safin Hamid |Islamic Feminism

11 January 2025 SeylihanRozi, an Uyghur Woman Sentenced To 17 Years For Teaching Islam To Her Kids And A Neighbour Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/uyghur-woman-teaching-islam-neighbour/d/134306 Seylihan Rozi, an Uyghur Woman Sentenced To 17 Years For Teaching Islam To Her Kids And A Neighbour By ShohretHoshur for RFA Uyghur Saylikhan Rozi in an undated photo from a video screenshot.
Uyghur woman sentenced to 17 years for teaching Islam to her kids and a neighbor

Jan 10, 2025 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur

Read RFA coverage of this story in Uyghur. A Uyghur woman has been sentenced to 17 years in a Xinjiang prison for giving religious lessons to her two sons and a neighbor, officials in the region told Radio Free Asia. Seylihan Rozi, 49, was sentenced for providing “illegal underground religious activity” by teaching others the 10 Quranic verses that Muslims recite when they perform namaz, the practice of praying five times a day, said a policeman in Saybagh village who oversaw her case.
Illegal wells in Xinjiang spark tension and dry up the land

Dec 24, 2024 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur

The discovery of 46 illegal wells dug by Chinese migrants in the far western region of Xinjiang has intensified tension with Uyghur residents and disrupted the ecological balance of the region, people with knowledge of the situation told Radio Free Asia. Fighting over water resources has been a source of friction for years between native Uyghurs and Chinese settlers in areas under the control of the state-run Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, or XPCC, called Bingtuan in Chinese.
China demolishes prominent Xinjiang building owned by Uyghur activist in US

Dec 11, 2024 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur

A symbolically important building in Xinjiang’s capital that was instrumental in the emergence of Uyghur entrepreneurs and businesspeople in the 1990s has been demolished, Radio Free Asia has learned. Authorities destroyed the Rebiya Kadeer Trade Center in Urumqi on Nov. 29, said Zumret Dawut, a Uyghur internment camp survivor now in the United States, citing sources from inside China’s far-western region of Xinjiang. The building had been shuttered for 15 years.
Fates of Uyghur refugees deported from Cambodia in 2009 revealed

Nov 27, 2024 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur

Fifteen years ago, Cambodia deported 20 Uyghur asylum seekers back to China, where they were detained and, in some cases, tortured in prison, people with knowledge of the situation said. One woman, who was released, had a miscarriage in detention due to the torture, which she said included electric shocks and being left nearly naked in a cold jail cell. And a seriously ill man serving a 20-year sentence has had to perform labor in prison, sources said.
Uyghur man sentenced to 7 years in jail for possessing ‘illegal’ books

Nov 13, 2024 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur

A Uyghur man named Jappar Ablimit was sentenced to seven years in prison in China’s far western Xinjiang region for possessing ‘illegal’ books, a police officer and a Uyghur living in Turkey told Radio Free Asia. Ablimit, a resident of Yopurga county in Kashgar, in western Xinjiang, was detained in 2017 during a massive crackdown on Uyghurs by Chinese authorities, said the Uyghur in Turkey, who had heard the news from other Uyghurs. It wasn’t clear when he was sentenced.
Uyghur filmmaker gets 6 ½ years in prison for ‘separatism’ and ‘terrorism’

Oct 11, 2024 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur

Chinese authorities have sentenced a Uyghur filmmaker to 6 1/2 years in prison for “separatism” and “terrorism,” a court official and a person with knowledge of the situation said. Ikram Nurmehmet, 32, and four friends with whom he had studied in Turkey were tried in Urumqi People’s Intermediate Court for alleged connections to Turkey-based organizations seeking independence for East Turkistan, the Uyghurs’ preferred name for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China.
10 years on, EU and rights groups call for Ilham Tohti’s release

Sep 23, 2024 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur |Roseanne Gerin

Monday marked 10 years since Ilham Tohti, a prominent Uyghur political prisoner, was sentenced to life in prison by Chinese authorities. The anniversary prompted the European Union and human rights groups to renew calls for the release of Tohti, now 54, a former economics professor at Central University for Nationalities in Beijing.
Uyghur scholar’s prison guard gets 7 years for revealing ‘secrets’

Sep 19, 2024 | rfa.org | Shohret Hoshur |Mamatjan Juma

A Uyghur prison guard has been sentenced to seven years in jail for divulging information about the condition of prominent Uyghur political prisoner Ilham Tohti, people with knowledge of the situation said. Gopur Abdurreshit, 51, was arrested on Feb. 1 for disclosing information about Tohti, an economist and professor who is serving a life sentence on separatism-related charges, said a person familiar with the matter who declined to be identified for fear of reprisals.