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…
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Washington, March 27 (IANS) A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has urged President Donald Trump to press China for the release of a detained Christian pastor when he meets President Xi Jinping next month, citing what they called “ongoing unjust imprisonment and persecution” of religious minorities.In a letter, Senators James Lankford, Ted Budd, and Tim Kaine, along with lawmakers from both parties, urged Trump to raise the case of Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, who they said was “arbitrarily deta…
Beijing, March 13 (IANS) The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has expressed grave concern over China’s newly approved law on “Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress,” adopted during the annual parliamentary session of the Chinese Communist Party, warning that it could intensify repression against Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Southern Mongolians. The organisation cautioned that the legislation may further strengthen state control and assimilation policies targeting ethnic minorities in China.The organisa…
Beijing, March 7 (IANS) China’s Xinjiang province has experienced a familiar yet disturbing surge in crackdowns by Chinese authorities during Ramadan with over 500 Uyghurs arrested in the Hotan region alone for “illegal religious activities” including private fasting and gatherings, a report said on Saturday.It added that checkpoints multiplied around mosques, while residents were subjected to random searches for “halal food or religious texts”, creating a climate of constant fear.According …
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…
Tel Aviv, Feb 23 (IANS) While Turkey has emerged as one of the most vocal international advocates on Gaza in recent years, its silence on the abuses of Uyghurs by Chinese authorities is deafening – a striking irony that cannot be ignored, a report highlighted on Monday. It added that in China’s Xinjiang region, Uyghurs – the Turkic-Muslim people whom Turkish President Erdogan once called victims of “genocide” – endure mass detention, forced labour, pervasive surveillance, restrictions on…
Berlin, Feb 23 (IANS) The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has once again expressed grave concerns over what it has described as China’s escalating “transnational repression” targetting Uyghurs abroad.In its weekly briefing, the WUC stated that it joined around 70–80 Uyghurs in Switzerland on February 15 in a strong demonstration organised by the Swiss Uyghur community showing “unity, resilience, and solidarity”.Citing reports by German ‘Table Media’, the WUC also raised concerns over the use…
Ankara, Feb 10 (IANS) Many of the estimated 50,000 exiled Uyghurs in Turkey who have sought refuge from persecution in their homeland of North West China – particularly those denied permanent citizenship and passports by Turkish authorities – now live in growing fear of being returned to face imprisonment, torture and the wrath of Beijing. Those who escaped the recent wave of arrests and the 2016 internment in China’s so-called “re-education camps” feel particularly vulnerable, a report sa…
Washington, Feb 5 (IANS) The Chinese government intensified its repression in China in 2025, leading rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its 2026 World Report. Chinese President Xi Jinping directed the government to impose ideological conformity and loyalty to him and the Chinese Communist Party, the HRW report highlighted. Uyghurs, Tibetans and other communities with different identities, including members of unofficial churches, face the most severe suppression of rights. Chinese aut…
Beijing, Jan 31 (IANS) China condemned the capture of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduroas by US forces as a “hegemonic act undermining global norms”, but for those familiar with Beijing’s abuses against Uyghurs, the reaction was not just “hypocritical — it was grotesque”, a report said on Saturday. “To capture Maduro, the Trump administration deployed a limited number of personnel by air, land, and sea. The operation lasted two hours and twenty-eight minutes. China, by contras…