London, April 23 (IANS) Sayragul Sauytbay, Vice President of East Turkestan’s government-in-exile, has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of “disrespecting human rights” over the approval of a Chinese mega-Embassy in London, a report has highlighted. Speaking to UK’s ‘The Independent’, Sauytbay, an ethnic Kazakh, claimed to have witnessed serious abuses while being forced to work in one of China’s Xinjiang internment camps in 2017. She criticised Starmer for prioritising economic …
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Washington, April 14 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government-in-Exile (ETGE) strongly condemned the conviction of 19 Kazakh citizens, saying that they were punished for demanding the release of an ethnic Kazakh “illegally detained” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The exiled authorities described the region as the ancestral homeland of the Uyghurs and home to millions of Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other Turkic peoples. The statement came after a court in Ka…
Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) The East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) has called on the international community, including the United Nations, to take principled, coordinated action against what it described as Beijing’s ongoing “institutionalisation of a coercive security-and-control system” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The exiled authorities call the region “an occupied country” currently under China’s “colonial rule”. The E…