Gifted academic Feng Siyu vanished after her 2018 arrest. Rights groups report she was jailed 15 years, likely over Uyghur studies, reflecting Beijing’s crackdown on sensitive cultural research.
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Rahima Mahmut exposed China’s repression of Uyghurs and its disinformation campaigns at the Geneva Summit, calling for international action to oppose human rights violations.
The 61st Munich Security Conference will end today. Protests opposing to participation of the Chinese delegation and drawing the attention of conference attendees to the Uyghur Genocide have been continuing since the 13th of February.
The Uyghur genocide became a focal point at the “Human Security Outlook in Central and South Asian Countries” conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Dr. Rishat Abbas, President of the Uyghur Academy, met this week with Dafna Hochman Rand, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State.
A meeting titled "Forced labor and assimilation in the Uyghur region" was held at the Senate of the Czech Republic, co-organized by the Ilham Tohti Initiative, the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur Movement.